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Title Rogue Masks: Visualizing Multidisciplinary Studies | ||
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https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mc923xr | ||
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Date 2022 | ||
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Author(s) Maples, Amanda M. | ||
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Abstract In April 2022 Sheku 'Goldenfinger' Fofanah, an exceedingly talented artist largely unrecognized outside Sierra Leone, created one Ordehlay and two Fairy masquerade ensembles for a major international traveling exhibition currently titled New Masks Now: Artists Innovating Masquerade in Contemporary West Africa. Emerging from previous dissertation research, the planning of this exhibition project, and my training in visual studies, this essay explores Fofanah's vibrant, multicultural urban masquerades as a parallel of my own scholarly journey toward the discipline of visual studies, and the necessity of resisting overdetermined paths and dichotomous categorizations to approach, research, understand, and present/contextualize African masquerade arts. Like my own pedagogical journey, Ordehlay is not linear, nor does it stay in any one lane. Such a rogue mask calls for a rogue discipline. | ||
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Subject(s) visual studies; masquerade; African art; contemporary art; museum studies | ||
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Publisher eScholarship, University of California | ||
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Type of publication article | ||
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Format application/pdf | ||
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Source Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal, vol 5, iss 1 | ||
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Rights CC-BY | ||
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Identifier qt2mc923xr | ||
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Repository Berkeley - University of California 
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