Will Rea
Biographic Data
| ID | 150060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Will Rea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Will |
| FAMILY NAME | Rea |
| SIGNATURE | REA W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Artistic Realization Technologies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0294-5019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Street to Mbari
Research Article| May 01 2022 Street to Mbari: Jacob Lawrence and the Influence of the “International” on a Local Modernism Will Rea Will Rea Will Rea is a senior lecturer in African art history at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and a coordinating curator for the John Randle Centre of Yoruba History and Culture in Lagos. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 64–75. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757…
Legacies of Biafra guest curator Louisa Egbunike
Legacies of Biafra was held over two floors of the Brunei gallery, which is housed by the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. The stimulus was the need to mark and commemorate the fifty years that have elapsed since the establishment of the Republic of Biafra and the subsequent turbulence of the Nigerian civil war. The genesis of the exhibition was in a conference, Legacies of Biafra, hosted by the Igbo Conference …
The Ẹpa Masquerades of Èkìtì
Forms appear out of other forms, that is they are contained by them: the container is everted, to reveal what is inside It follows that past and future become present: any one form anticipates its transformation, and is itself respectively the transformation of a prior form. (Strathern 1992: 249) P hillip Allison, formerly of the Nigerian Forestry Commission and then the Nigerian National Museums and Monuments Commission, is probably best known f…
Kasfir Dialogue
September 01 2013 Kasfir Dialogue: A Response Will Rea Will Rea Will Rea is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Will Rea Will Rea is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. [email protected] O…
A Prevalence of Witches
This paper considers two instances of witchcraft representation. The first is a representation that develops from the author’s fieldwork and his own experience of witnessing a witchcraft trail. The second is in Nigerian graphic comics that were popular in the 1990s and which to an extent influenced the current form of popular Nigerian soap opera and video films. This paper contrasts attitudes toward witchcraft in the Ekiti Yoruba town of Ikole ou…
Making History
December 01 2008 Making History: The Modernity of Masquerade in Ikole Ekiti Will Rea Will Rea Will Rea is a senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, Art History, and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. He has carried out research in Ikole Ekiti since 1990 and has published on the relations between anthropology and art, masquerade, and religion. His monograph No Event, No History: Masquerade Politics in Ekiti is forthcoming. [email protected].…
On staging performance
This paper examines the ways in which the official performance of a masquerade festival in an Èkìtì Yorúbà town in Nigeria depends upon the action of participants taking place away from the performances that the public witnesses. In the Èkìtì Yorúbà town of Ìklé the biannual masquerade festival is one of the most dramatic ritual events within the town. It examines the way that the formal presentations of masquerade within the official ritual peri…
Rationalising culture
Studies of associations in West Africa have tended to focus upon the development of new development-related institutional forms. Other, so-called traditional, cultural groupings have tended to be ignored. This article points to transformations and changes in the masquerade society of the north-eastern Yoruba town of Ìkòlé and considers the continuing development of the masquerade society as an association. Changes in the masquerade society are be…
Rationalising culture
Studies of associations in West Africa have tended to focus upon the development of new development-related institutional forms. Other, so-called traditional, cultural groupings have tended to be ignored. This article points to transformations and changes in the masquerade society of the north-eastern Yoruba town of Ìkòlé and considers the continuing development of the masquerade society as an association. Changes in the masquerade society are be…
Making History
December 01 2008 Making History: The Modernity of Masquerade in Ikole Ekiti Will Rea Will Rea Will Rea is a senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, Art History, and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. He has carried out research in Ikole Ekiti since 1990 and has published on the relations between anthropology and art, masquerade, and religion. His monograph No Event, No History: Masquerade Politics in Ekiti is forthcoming. [email protected].…
On staging performance
This paper examines the ways in which the official performance of a masquerade festival in an Èkìtì Yorúbà town in Nigeria depends upon the action of participants taking place away from the performances that the public witnesses. In the Èkìtì Yorúbà town of Ìklé the biannual masquerade festival is one of the most dramatic ritual events within the town. It examines the way that the formal presentations of masquerade within the official ritual peri…
The Ẹpa Masquerades of Èkìtì
Forms appear out of other forms, that is they are contained by them: the container is everted, to reveal what is inside It follows that past and future become present: any one form anticipates its transformation, and is itself respectively the transformation of a prior form. (Strathern 1992: 249) P hillip Allison, formerly of the Nigerian Forestry Commission and then the Nigerian National Museums and Monuments Commission, is probably best known f…
Kasfir Dialogue
September 01 2013 Kasfir Dialogue: A Response Will Rea Will Rea Will Rea is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Will Rea Will Rea is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. [email protected] O…
A Prevalence of Witches
This paper considers two instances of witchcraft representation. The first is a representation that develops from the author’s fieldwork and his own experience of witnessing a witchcraft trail. The second is in Nigerian graphic comics that were popular in the 1990s and which to an extent influenced the current form of popular Nigerian soap opera and video films. This paper contrasts attitudes toward witchcraft in the Ekiti Yoruba town of Ikole ou…
Rationalising culture
Studies of associations in West Africa have tended to focus upon the development of new development-related institutional forms. Other, so-called traditional, cultural groupings have tended to be ignored. This article points to transformations and changes in the masquerade society of the north-eastern Yoruba town of Ìkòlé and considers the continuing development of the masquerade society as an association. Changes in the masquerade society are be…
On staging performance
This paper examines the ways in which the official performance of a masquerade festival in an Èkìtì Yorúbà town in Nigeria depends upon the action of participants taking place away from the performances that the public witnesses. In the Èkìtì Yorúbà town of Ìklé the biannual masquerade festival is one of the most dramatic ritual events within the town. It examines the way that the formal presentations of masquerade within the official ritual peri…
A Prevalence of Witches
This paper considers two instances of witchcraft representation. The first is a representation that develops from the author’s fieldwork and his own experience of witnessing a witchcraft trail. The second is in Nigerian graphic comics that were popular in the 1990s and which to an extent influenced the current form of popular Nigerian soap opera and video films. This paper contrasts attitudes toward witchcraft in the Ekiti Yoruba town of Ikole ou…
Making History
December 01 2008 Making History: The Modernity of Masquerade in Ikole Ekiti Will Rea Will Rea Will Rea is a senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, Art History, and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. He has carried out research in Ikole Ekiti since 1990 and has published on the relations between anthropology and art, masquerade, and religion. His monograph No Event, No History: Masquerade Politics in Ekiti is forthcoming. [email protected].…
Kasfir Dialogue
September 01 2013 Kasfir Dialogue: A Response Will Rea Will Rea Will Rea is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Will Rea Will Rea is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. [email protected] O…
The Ẹpa Masquerades of Èkìtì
Forms appear out of other forms, that is they are contained by them: the container is everted, to reveal what is inside It follows that past and future become present: any one form anticipates its transformation, and is itself respectively the transformation of a prior form. (Strathern 1992: 249) P hillip Allison, formerly of the Nigerian Forestry Commission and then the Nigerian National Museums and Monuments Commission, is probably best known f…
Legacies of Biafra guest curator Louisa Egbunike
Legacies of Biafra was held over two floors of the Brunei gallery, which is housed by the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. The stimulus was the need to mark and commemorate the fifty years that have elapsed since the establishment of the Republic of Biafra and the subsequent turbulence of the Nigerian civil war. The genesis of the exhibition was in a conference, Legacies of Biafra, hosted by the Igbo Conference …
Street to Mbari
Research Article| May 01 2022 Street to Mbari: Jacob Lawrence and the Influence of the “International” on a Local Modernism Will Rea Will Rea Will Rea is a senior lecturer in African art history at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and a coordinating curator for the John Randle Centre of Yoruba History and Culture in Lagos. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 64–75. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757…
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