The Biennale In Dakar

Contents:
A non-linear history of Dak’Art
Cédric Vincent revisits the beginnings of the Biennale in Dakar.

“Dak’Art 2014 is conceived as an active process of producing the common.”
Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, co-curator of Dak’Art 2014, provides insights into this year’s Biennale, the artists represented and the theme Producing the Common.

“We want to protect the spirit of freedom”
Mauro Petroni, initiator and coordinator of Dak’Art OFF, talks about how the OFF has grown.

“One way to reignite this collective memory”
The young photographer Ibrahima Thiam talks to C& about his Collection Photo Souvenir.

Brothers in Arms: Laboratoire AGIT’art and Tenq in Dakar in the 1990s
This extract is part of ‘Brothers in Arms: Laboratoire AGIT’art and Tenq in Dakar in the 1990s’, an essay by Clémentine Deliss forthcoming in AFTERALL, issue 36, Summer 2014.