Out Now: 3rd Edition of SAVVY Journal for Critical Texts on Contemporary African Art
SAVVY | art.contemporary.african. (ISSN 2191-4362)
Title: Art and politics – An inseparable couple? The fire behind the smoke called political art.
Talking about politics and Africa is always crackling. Talking about politics and art is always a guarantee for a hot debate. Then of course talking about art, politics and Africa is a recipe for an electrifying discourse. An objective and constructive critique without pledging any predetermined allegiance to a specific school of thought is an important ingredient in this recipe.
What is for certain is, arts and politics are not of different planets. They share the same playground, they are not antagonistic but complementary to each other and usually co-exist in a symbiotic relationship… and that was evident in many of the texts we received. Surprisingly, we received no article claiming the independence of…
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