Third Text Africa, Volume 2.4, ‘Re/centering Artists 2’

Editorial

This eighth edition of Third Text Africa concludes the first phase of this project. This phase has been modest. We have made 60 archival articles from Third Text freely accessible online to readers across Africa, and all readers have had access to the editorials that have attempted to bring into the present some of the issues associated with the archival articles. For making this possible we are grateful to Rasheed Araeen and his team at Third Text, and to Routledge for their support.

In consultation with Third Text a new, improved Third Text Africa is being formulated. It will seek to align Third Text Africa with the approach taken by Third Text Asia and Tercer Texto, Third Text’s other satellite projects that blend archival articles with original material. Just as it took a year of behind-the-scenes conversations to get the first phase online, so too the development of the next phase of Third Text Africa will take some time, and is provisionally scheduled to re-emerge online in 2012.

This edition continues the theme of re-centering artists in critical discourse. The argument for this was outlined in an earlier editorial (vol. 1 no. 4). Suffice to underline here that ASAI remains committed to facilitating spaces for artists to engage with critical issues, and for interested parties to engage critically with the work of artists. Here, readers should expect some changes as we grapple with the interface between real time and virtual time projects, but never losing sight of the pivotal agent, the artist.

Mario Pissarra
Editor, Third Text Africa

Publication & Copyright Information

Valerie Cassel's "Convergence: Images & Dialogue: Conversations with Alexander 'Skunder' Boghossian" was published in Third Text no. 23, 1993, pp. 53-68

Leticia Cordero Vega's "Meeting with Rachid Koraichi was published in Third Text no. 25, 1993-94, pp. 61-66

Olu Oguibe's "El Anatsui: In the Public Space was published in Third Text no. 35, 1996, pp. 69-77

Jean Fisher's "Everlyn Nicodemus: Between Silence and Laughter" was published in Third Text no. 40, 1997, pp. 41-53

David A. Bailey's "Photographic Animateur: The Photographs of Fani Rotimi Kayode in Relation to Black Photographic Practice" was published in Third Text no. 13, 1990/91, pp. 57-62

Anthony Ilona's "Olu Oguibe: Recent Works" was published in Third Text no. 25, 1993-94, pp. 87-89

Paul O'Kane's "Johannes Phokela" was published in Third Text no. 43, 1998, pp. 103-104

All previously published texts appear in Third Text Africa with permission of Third Text and Routledge. Copyright resides with Third Text/ Authors. No article may be reproduced without the written permission of the Editor, Third Text.