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Art as anthropology: uncovering and upending regimes of visibility

Over the past decade, Canadian-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga (born 1978) has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures and films that consider marginalized histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga's ethereal environments bring attention to the backstories of systems of authority and their embodied effects.
Accompanying the exhibition at the New Museum, this catalog provides one of the most complete overviews of Kiwanga''s work in sculpture and installation. Inspired by the early 18th-century New York legal codes known as lantern lawsordinances that required all Black, Indigenous or mixed-race individuals over 14 to carry lanterns or lit candles after dark if not accompanied by a white personher new commission for the New Museum weaves together different layers of opacity and transparency thro

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      Publisher New Museum of Contemporary Art,U.S.
      Published 1 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9780915557998
      978-0915557998
      ISBN-10 915557991

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Art as anthropology: uncovering and upending regimes of visibility

      Over the past decade, Canadian-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga (born 1978) has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures and films that consider marginalized histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga's ethereal environments bring attention to the backstories of systems of authority and their embodied effects.
      Accompanying the exhibition at the New Museum, this catalog provides one of the most complete overviews of Kiwanga''s work in sculpture and installation. Inspired by the early 18th-century New York legal codes known as lantern lawsordinances that required all Black, Indigenous or mixed-race individuals over 14 to carry lanterns or lit candles after dark if not accompanied by a white personher new commission for the New Museum weaves together different layers of opacity and transparency thro

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