ArtReview’s September 2017 issue features the work of Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito. Musician, performance artist, stand-up comedian – Mosquito invents multiple fictional personas to riff on global politics, the delusions of self-help, postcolonial power relations and the artworld. In Building Skyscrapers,Mosquito finds himself the tricky situation of doing a promo for a distracted and bored art journalist. It does not go well… (contains some strong language)
“The special interpretation in which one / might say that he had been injured. Fatally, by death. / Or for that matter, that she had. Delicious breakfast.’
“I am very invested in that sociocosmic space, narrated by humans but woven out of animal agencies, deities, cosmic beings and potencies intervening in everyday reality”
The recent controversy over artist Anita Dube’s unauthorised use of an anti-establishment poem by Aamir Aziz reveals the deeper inequities of caste privilege within Indian society
