African modernism as network
Historical mechanisms
The live network will connect objects to people, institutions, places, publications and events. This first interface establishes the interpretive sequence without pretending that the archive is a linear chronology.
- 01
Extraction
Ethnographic mediation and the unequal conditions of visibility
- 02
Reciprocal exchange
Address, inscription and transatlantic recognition
- 03
Wartime circulation
Portable journals, letters and publishing routes
- 04
Visual translation
Images moving between publishing and exhibition
- 05
Institutional consolidation
Durable platforms and cultural authority
- 06
African-centred production
Local publishing, performance and artistic ecologies
- 07
Continental expansion
Institutional multiplication across African centres
- 08
Global visibility
Festivals, exhibitions and international staging