The Dripping Man: Art, the Ephemeral, and the Urban Soul

Dominique Malaquais is a senior researcher at the Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, C.N.R.S., Paris, and director, with artist and educator Kadiatou Diallo, of SPARCK (Space for Panafrican Research, Creation and Knowledge—The Africa Centre, Cape Town), a network-driven, multiple-platform arts and activism project developed in tandem with choreographer Faustin Linyekula and urban sociologist AbdouMaliq Simone. She is the author of Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun (Karthala, 2002) and of numerous articles on contemporary urban culture in central and southern Africa. Malaquais is associate editor of Chimurenga Magazine and sits on the editorial board of Politique africaine. dmalaquais@gmail.com