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Afua Hirsch on Africa Rising, Liverpool Biennial, Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch

The Week in Art

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The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu

I felt that activation was needed. I mean the first thing you walk into in Tate Liverpool is Torquise Dyson's at Liquid A Place with these large three whole like minimal sculptures but you really think of those three big minimal sculptures more and there's lots of label talk about triangular apertures. So in a way what you're saying is that there's a lot of illustration here. A little bit so I mean I felt thatactivation was needed. We had Albert Ebokkwa Kosa from South Africa their performance the black circus of the Republic of Bantu which was very the theme of it was this of human zoos and exhibitions. The most powerful entire part of the

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