Teaching African Artisanry, Seeing African Labor: Persistent Pedagogies in Twentieth-Century Niger

Gilvin, Amanda

doi:10.1080/19301944.2014.889951

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“…This is due to several circumstances. Comparatively fewer people attend formal schools in Niger, and even those who do rarely have the opportunity to study art (Gilvin 2012, 2014a, 2014b; Bruns et al 2003; Hima 2000). No university training is offered in the visual arts.…”

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Games of Seduction and Games of History: Alioum Moussa’sFashion Victimsin Niamey, Niger

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2015

Afr. stud. rev.

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Abstract:In his November 2011 solo art exhibition, Fashion Victims, held in Niamey, Niger, the Cameroonian artist Alioum Moussa launched a critique of global participation in the industrial fashion system by employing secondhand garments as his primary medium. The show had special resonance in a city attempting to cultivate both industrial and artisanal production of dress and fashion for global markets. Moussa demanded that viewers reckon with their own consumerist dress practices and potential fashion victimization in what he described as “global games of seduction,” and he offered tributes to the different “fashion victims” by inviting others to play in shared games of history.

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