Marilyn Nance seen here at an APAG meeting at ICP in 2018 © Grayson Dantzic
On October 17, 2019 at 10:45 am—12:15 pm at New York University, Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor, New York, New York 10012, Oluremi Onabanjo (Columbia University) will present “Last Day in Lagos: Encountering Marilyn Nance’s FESTAC ‘77 Photographic Archive”
From 15 January through 12 February 1977, more than 15,000 artists, intellectuals, and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered in Lagos, Nigeria. Formally titled the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, FESTAC drew on the Négritude foundations of Senegal’s 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts and emphasized themes of Pan-Africanism and global black liberation. Visual artist Marilyn Nance served as the official photographer for the USA contingent of the North American delegation to FESTAC.