CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY (2019)

Hassan Musa's calligraphy work and approach is quite unique. As it distances itself from conventional calligraphy practices, it develops into what HM likes to call image making. Here is a little anecdote that illustrate Hassan Musa's approach to calligraphy as a way to create images. It includes, in HM's own words, how he regards HIS calligraphy work.

GHOSTS OF AFRICA IN EUROPE'S MUSEUM (2007)

To shed light on the current terms of the debate posed by European ethnomuseologists regarding the status of African objects that populate their museums, Hassan Musa cunningly takes politically incorrect shortcuts: What to do with Africans? What about the place they occupy in the time and space of Europeans? What should be done with the stuffed African corpses—like that of the Hottentot Venus—that lie in their cabinets? Or even: why are contemporary "African" artists called upon to recycle these objects that were once violently stolen from their ancestors? Delicious.

10 TIPS ON HOW NOT TO BECOME AN AFRICAN ARTIST (1995)

To my friends  who asked me why I do not feel comfortable in « Contemporary African Art » although I am African.

Here is a little piece I wrote to accompany my performance at the major event AFRICA '95, back in 1995, in London.