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In 2008, Peterson Kamwathi, a Nairobi-based Kenyan artist, was awarded a grant to visit the Dakar Biennale, in Senegal: a game changer, according to his peers. The director of the Kenyan art center that hosted his studio claimed the visit “radically changed his perspective, the way he sees things, his work, everything.”1 How did it happen, and what does such a connection entail? Looking at this event through the conceptual lens of mobility leads to explanatory models such as agency, spatial imaginary, or institutional apparatus. These are valid research domains (see Marcel 2012). However, even using comparative or multisited approaches, these methods produce analyses of single individuals, cities, or regions that do not allow us to understand more global configurations, hierarchies, and flows. A broader network is often hypothesized, seldom assessed and measured quantitatively. To what extent can social network analysis explain the...