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Article: Assemblies: Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art.(art exhibitions)
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- African Arts
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- March 22, 2005
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During the week of October 18, 2004, Pamela Allara, Kyle Kauffman, and I organized a series of events and exhibitions around the theme of "Assemblies: Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art" at Brandeis University and Wellesley College. Our title, "Assemblies," called attention to both the combination and recombination of visual and tactile elements by contemporary artists and the gathering together of persons and communities in old and novel configurations. Through the rather archaeological term "excavation" we sought to bring out the historical resonances of many of these art works, which subtly signal or call up earlier epochs and historical moments ...