Publishing Expanded: Where Is Africa is the first gathering in CARA’s annual, interdisciplinary winter program celebrating the release of the organization’s new and upcoming publications. This inaugural, multi-day program will take place at CARA from February 9-11, 2024 on the occasion of the launch of Where Is Africa, edited by Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman, designed by NMutiti Studio, with a foreword by Mabel O. Wilson.

In 2017, curator and art historian Anita N. Bateman and architect and professor Emanuel Admassu initiated research on the traditional (mis)positioning of the arts across the African continent. Where Is Africa has been an extended set of exchanges with contemporary artists, curators, designers and academics who are actively engaged in representing the continent—both within and outside its geographic boundaries. This publication is also a conceptual project that accompanies a conceptual place, driven by the desire to dislodge Africa from categorical fixity and the representational logics of nation-states.

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