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PROTOCOLLUM Fakhri El Ghezal, Tunisia 118 2016/17 GLine§ Terkol, Turkey 123 Ernest MAO, Ivory Coast 126 Vesna Bukovec, Slovenia 2,18 Leung Chi Wo, Hong Kong 130 Naeem Mohaiemen, Miti Ruangkritya, Thailand ... 134 Bangladesh 10 Olivia McGilchrist, Andreas Fogarasi, Austria .... 22 Jamaica/France 136 Kapwani Kiwanga, Canada ... 27 Leon Krige, South Africa 140 Sandra Sterle, Croatia 32 Cheikh Ndiaye, Senegal 144 Foundland, David Bohm & Jiri Franta, South Africa / Syria 33 Czech Republic 147 Zhanna Kadyrova, Ukraine ... 38 Joel Mpah Dooh, Cameroon 152 Graciela Sacco, Argentina ... 42 Istvan Csokony, Charwei Tsai, Taiwan 44 Romania / Hungary 157 Francisco Ugarte, Mexico 45 Diana De Solares, Jose Alejandro Restrepo, Guatemala 160 Colombia 48 Ergin cavu§o61u, Ala Younis, Kuwait 51 Bulgaria / Turkey 165 Bili Bidjocka, Cameroon 56 Alimjan Jorobaev, Adela Jugio, Kyrgyzstan 171 Bosnia and Herzegovina .... 58 Fusun Onur, Turkey 174 AES+F, Russia 62 Desire Machine Collective, Alejandro Cesarco, Uruguay ... 73 India 180 Alexander Povzner, Russia 76 Jakub Julian ZiOlkowski, Aurelia Mihai, Romania 82 Poland 183 Bianca Baldi, South Africa .... 86 Jhafis Quintero Gonzalez, Ana Maria Tavares, Brasil 90 Panama 186 Blaiej BalaZ, Slovakia $94 Lana amajCanin, Carlos Martiel, Cuba 98 Bosnia and Herzegovina .... 190 T 1- Jose Bedia, Cuba 104 Raja'a Khalid, Saudi Arabia .... 194 0 C Sharon Ya'ari, Israel 113 Mariam Suhail, Pakistan 196 70 , (3) Lantian Xie, Bahrain 116 see more artists on back cover --> C) op N- 0) Pio Abad & Maria Taniguchi, The Bureau of Melodramatic Philippines 201 Research, Romania 284 Massinissa Selmani, Algeria _204 Where Dogs Run, Russia 286 Mekhitar Garabedian, Syria ... 208 Abraham Oghobase, Miao Xiaochun, China 214 Nigeria 289 MMMoCa, Nigeria 219 Tsang Kin-Wah, China 292 Okin Collective, South Korea ... 222 Euridice Getulio Kala, Moridja Kitenge Banza, Mozambique 296 Congo 224 Trinh T. Minh-ha, Vietnam 300 Michael Lee, Singapore 228 Nomwinde Vivien Sawadogo, Index 305 Burkina Faso 234 English Translations 306 Orawan Arunrak, Thailand ... 238 Artists' Biographies 307 Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Imprint 321 Botswana 242 Raquel Paiewonsky, Price: € 35 / £ 30 / 40 / 4100 Dominican Republic 245 ISBN 978-3-9816206-4-1 Roee Rosen, Israel 250 African Art Book Fair 256 Sutthirat Supaparinya, Thailand 258 Song-Ming Ang, Singapore .... 262 Sun Xun, China 265 Tatiana Danilevskaya, Russia 270 Youssef Limoud, Egypt 274 Tercerunquinto, Mexico 278 Yang Yongliang, China 280

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123 Grine§ Terkol, Turkey Table of Contents 126 Ernest MIK', Ivory Coast Hong Kong 130 2,18 Leung Chi Wo, Vesna Bukovec, Slovenia 134 Miti Ruangkritya, Thailand Naeem Mohaiemen, 10 Olivia McGilchrist, Bangladesh 136 Austria 22 Jamaica / France Andreas Fogarasi, South Africa 140 Canada ... 27 Leon Krige, Kapwani Kiwanga, Senegal 141+ 32 Cheikh Ndiaye, Sandra Sterle, Croatia David Bohm & VI Franta, Foundland, Czech Republic 147 33 South Africa / Syria Cameroon 152 38 Joel Mpah Dooh, Zhanna Kadyrova, Ukraine 42 Istvan Csokony, Graciela Sacco, Argentina ... 157 1+4 Romania / Hungary Charwei Tsai, Taiwan 45 Diana De Solares, Francisco Ugarte, Mexico Guatemala 160 Jose Alejandro Restrepo, 48 Ergin cavu§o61u, Colombia 165 51 Bulgaria / Turkey Ala Younis, Kuwait Cameroon 56 Alimjan Jorobaev, Bili Bidjocka, Kyrgyzstan 171 Adela Jugi6, Turkey 174 Bosnia and Herzegovina .... 58 Flisun Onur, 62 Desire Machine Collective, AES+F, Russia 180 73 India Alejandro Cesarco, Uruguay 76 Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Alexander Povzner, Russia 183 82 Poland Aurelia Mihai, Romania 86 Jhafis Quintero Gonzalez, Bianca Baldi, South Africa 186 90 Panama Ana Maria Tavares, Brasil Slovakia 94 Lana CmajCanin, Blaiej Balai, Bosnia and Herzegovina .... 190 Cuba 98 Carlos Martiel, Saudi Arabia ....194 104 Raja'a Khalid, Jose Bedia, Cuba Pakistan ...... 196 113 Mariam Suhail, Sharon Ya'ari, Israel 116 Pio Abad & Maria Taniguchi, Lantian Xie, Bahrain 201 118 Philippines Fakhri El Ghezal, Tunisia

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AO. inability of language to reveal clear Page 94-97 - meanings in the background on the one hand, while on the other hand they Blaiej Bala deliberately speak to an audience whose native language is not English; to a In Opposite Direction viewer whose home (like the author's) is repeatedly associated with the prefix Blaiej Balai is a Slovak artist whose `East'. In the book 'Zone des Obergangs work has been linked to post-conceptual — Vom Ende des Postkomunismus' tendencies for more than two decades, Croatian philosopher Boris Buden using text as the main medium of describes communism as a past one expression to criticise the institutional cannot get rid of: 'Societies that have and political world. An interest in the come through are doomed to culture political was already present in his catching up.' So the East carries its post-conceptual texts, systematically post-communist branding with the elaborated since the 1990s. Bala image of backwardness and the need to remains a radical revolutionary, but his catch up. According to Buden, Bala revolution generates a network between uncompromisingly values this relation- the historical narrative and subjective ship as the inability to balance. forms of survival. Against the back- WESTOST (PUPOKVYCHODU) , ground of political change, personal OSTWEST (RItZAPADU) history follows up on historical events, This scepticism is also associated ceasing to be an unbiased commentary, with a new visual form that Bahl brings instead becoming interested survival MERE). to his works. Painting on canvas is (CELY2IVOTPRE2ITVPROTIS reduced to a matter of status which The events of the post-communist sanctifies the autonomy of artistic era, variations of political tensions that expression, and is replaced with another modelled the relationship between East type of groundwork, representing a kind and West, and the onset of a trans- of resignation on visual thinking. This is formed institutional power that brought supported by the use of grease, primer Slovakia to the turn of 1989 and 1990, impregnation, which in addition to its are linked closely to his need to criti- metaphorical and literal preserving cally express his personal and civil effect (fixing trauma) also refers to the attitude in various art forms. artistic activities of Joseph Beuys. Piotr Piotrowski writes that, al- Balai's texts find themselves on used though the experience of political and cardboard boxes as a memento of artistic history has been different in instability and disposables and consti- each country, the socialist past was tute not only an ironic metaphor of the traumatic for all of them. The act of weak border between the eastern and looking back to the past and drawing (THEIRONICCURTAIN), from it denotes a kind of revocation of western Blocs but also a metaphor for the ever trauma to Piotrowski. From this catching up part of Europe, which, with perspective, the intensity with which Balai is devoted to the events of the past its post-communist fate, will perhaps forever remain a depot for commodities in his work appears strongly trauma- destined for export to the 'Western philic and thus as an attempt to rethink and rework this trauma again, rather world'. — Roman Gajdo§ than keeping it suppressed (FIRSTLY- WEWERESACRIFICEDBYTHEM - THENTHEYLIBERATEDUS and FIRSTLYWEWERELIBERATE DBY- THEMTHENTHEYOCCUPIEDUS ). In these writings, defects, errors and a shrinkage of the text represent the

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Yokohama, Japan (2013) and Frac Ile- works in Brussels. Bianca Baldi's video of Cuban Art that inaugurated the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg - de-France, le Plateau, France (2012). installations reveal over-looked narrative Exhibition 'Volumen 1' at The Signs Cape Town and on the occasion of the Orawan has spoken on her work at Art strands and the hidden structures of Gallery, New York, which Bedia was exhibition 'Africa Remix' and 'The Stage Singapore (2015) and Bophana power. By focusing on specific cultural an integral part of. Divine Comedy' by Simon Njami. He Center, Phnom Penh (2014), among or sociological artefacts, historical His passion for the primal Amer- is one of the founders of the creative others. plots reveal complex webs of political, indians complemented his anthropo- platform Matrix Art Project (MAP) in economic and cultural influence in logical research on Afro-Transatlantic Paris, Brussels and New York. Baldi's work. Recent and upcoming cultures, studying in depth the faith, exhibitions include: The AV Festival beliefs and religion of the 'La Regla 2016, Newcastle, UK (2016); 'The Image Kongo' (in which he was initiated in Generator II', Extra City Kunsthal, 1983), as well as many other tribal BLAZE). BALAZ -> Page 94 Antwerp, Belgium (2016); Open House, groups. He travelled to Angola with Blaiej Balai (born in 1958, Nevorne, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany the Cuban Army. This contact with Slovakia) studied at the Secondary (2015); 19th Contemporary Art Festival the mother continent and the war School of Applied Arts, Kremnica, SESC Videobrasil, Sao Paolo, Brasil increased his interest in the African from 1973 to 1977 and at the Academy (2015); Sightings, KZNSA, Durban, roots in Latin American culture. After of Fine Arts, Bratislava, from 1977 to South Africa (2015); The 8th Berlin residing in Mexico he moved to Miami, 1983. He has worked in the areas of Biennale of Contemporary Art at KW Florida, where he currently lives. Bedia's DAVID BOHM & JIM FRANTA neo-conceptual and activist art and is - Institute for Contemporary Art, work has been shown in various group Page 147 also known for political and environ- Berlin (2014); Zero Latitude at the exhibitions throughout Europe, the Jilt Franta (born in 1978, Prague, mental art. His practice also comprises Goethe Institut, Johannesburg, South Americas and Asia, including `Magiciens Czech Republic) and David Bohm media paintings, works on paper, Africa (2014). de la Terre' at the Centre Georges (born in 1982, Prague, Czech Republic) drawing, objects, performances and Pompidou and the Grand Halle at the give performances, shoot videos, create printmaking. Balai's work has been MOKILA -11.140.11 Parc de la Villette, Paris (1989) and spatial installations, intervene in featured in numerous solo exhibitions 'Congo Across the Waters' (2013). public spaces, paint murals and such as 'Private / Public', Nove Zamky He received the first prize at the Beijing illustrate books and magazines. Both Gallery of Art, Nove Zamky, Slovakia • • Biennale in 2010. His works are also Bohm and Franta live and work in (2015); `When Activism Becomes • held in renowned private and public Prague, where they graduated from Art', Central Slovakian Gallery, collections such as the Museo Nacional the Academy of Fine Arts. They won Banski Bystrica, Slovakia (2015); 1.) Palacio de Bellas Artes, La Habana; the second prize of the Erasmus 'SUCHARATOLEST', Kunsthalle MORIDJA KITENGE BANZA MoMA, Metropolitan Museum, exhibition `My Neighborhood' in Bratislava (2009); `Texts 1988 / 2007', -> Page 224 Whitney Museum of American Art Porto, Portugal, in 2006, and were East Slovakian Gallery, Kotice, Moridja Kitenge Banza (born in and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, nominated for the Jirldfich Chalupecky Slovakia (2007); `Geld macht Kunst', 1980, Kinshasa, Congo), graduated from New York; Tate Modern, London; Smith- Awards in 2009, 240 and 2012. Solo Gallery of J. Koniarek, Trnava, Slovakia the Fine Arts Academy of Kinshasa in sonian Museum, Washington; The shows include 'Blind Man's Dream', (2003) and 'The Discreet Charm of the 1999 and from the Nantes School of Art Coleccidn Daros, Zurich and others. Fait Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic Painting', House of Art, Ceske in France (l'ecole superieure des Beaux- (2016); 'If a Street Where Time and I Budejovice, Czech Republic (2002). arts de Nantes Metropole) in 2008. In Would Stand at the End of the Street', Balai has participated in various group 2010 he was awarded the first prize at the City Gallery Liberec, Czech Republic shows such as 'Here and Now', Kunst- Dakar Biennial for his video Hymne (2015); 'NO', Budapest Art Factory, halle Budapest (2015); the International a nous and his installation 1848 a nos Budapest, Hungary (2015); 'Small Drawing Triennial, Tallin Art Hall, jours. In 2012 Banza was selected to Town, Big Mystery, Soda Gallery, Estonia (2015); `Blood', Slovak National participate in the first edition of the Bratislava, Slovakia (2014); 'Survival Gallery, Bratislava (2012); `Formate Casablanca Biennial. His work has been Only the Humorous', Gallery Tfinec, der Transformation 89-09', MUSA - exhibited in France, Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic (2014); 'Epicentrum', Museum auf Abruf, Vienna (2010) and Austria and Canada as well as in South BILI BIDJOCKA 3 Page 56 Gallery Blansko, Czech Republic `Object/object', The Czech Museum of Africa and again during the 12th Cameroonian painter Mit Bidjocka (2013); 'David Bohm - 100 Weeks', Jiri Fine Arts, Prague (2001). edition of the Dakar Biennial in 2016. (born in 1962, Douala, Cameroon) has Svestka Gallery, Prague (2013); 'Copy His artistic approach lies some-where been living in Paris since 1974, where, of Reality', Nitranska galeria, Nitra, between fiction and reality and serves as after originally coming from a Slovakia (2013); `Echolog', Jiri Svestka the means by which he questions history, background of theater and dance, he Gallery, Prague (2012). memory and identity through the lens of enrolled at the School of Fine Arts. social, economic and political contexts. His confrontation with market laws, history and his own African identity BUNG .111.1.1..111, • forced him to see with new eyes the 914/1116 Oa OMR notion of art. After trying painting, he turned to installation and theatrical staging. His pieces began to function as puzzles, riddles through which he continues the essential examination of BLANCA BALDI -> Page 86 JOSE BEDIA -> Page 104 the meaning and purpose of creation. VESNA BUKOVEC 3 Page 2, 18 Bianca Baldi (born in 1985, Johan- Jose Bedia (born in 1959, Havana, Bili Bidjocka participated in many Vesna Bukovec (born in 1977, nesburg, South Africa) grew up in Cuba) excelled in drawing, comics international exhibitions, including Ljubljana, Slovenia) graduated in 2002 KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, and and illustration from an early age on the Biennales of Venice (2007), Taipei and completed her MFA in 2006 at the completed her BA at the The Michaelis and joined the famous San Alejandro (2004), Dakar (2000), Johannesburg Academy of Fine Arts and Design in School of Fine Art, Cape Town. She Academy as a teenager. After San (1997) and Havana (1997). Exhibitions Ljubljana. She works independently pursued her postgraduate studies at the Alejandro he graduated with honours in museums and art galleries include at and in the art group KOLEKTIVA (with Stadelschule in Frankfurt am Main, from the ISA, Instituto Superior de New Museum of Contemporary Art Metka Zupanie and Lada Cerar). Her Germany, and at the IUAV University Arte de la Habana, Cuba. He was a New York; ARC Museum of Modern artistic work finds its expression in a of Venice, Italy. She now lives and pioneer of the radical transformation Art Paris; Palace of Fine Arts Brussels; variety of media (drawing, video,

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