The Temporal Theatres of Sculpture and Drama: Wole Soyinka and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract To investigate the practices of evaluating and collecting African art is to expose the way in which modernism has dehistorized African art, globalizing it, universalizing it, rendering it timeless and thus 'modern.' In this way, modernism holds a mirror to itself, claiming for itself properties of truth and authenticity. The evolution of the New York art scene between 1957 and 1982 demonstrates a shift in museological praxis from anthropological to cultural theatre. In opposition to the neutralizing of history and the valorization of modernism, Wole Soyinka's tragic drama Death and the King's Horseman involves the spectator in a more interrogative instability. The synecdochal art object at the centre of the play, the egungun death mask, represents the extreme cultural negotiation of the imperialist stage. Unlike the passive, stoic nature of African sculpture, however, the ritual of the mask is aggressive and demanding, insisting as it does on its place in the terrifying vortex of post-colonial power politics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".