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DAVID HECHT
229 Dean St, Brooklyn, NY 11217 U.S.A.
Tel: (718) 624 4249 Fax: (718) 624 7485
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BORN:
1957 May 12th,
Melbourne, Australia
EDUCATION:
1976-79 B.F.A Post-Object Studies and Painting
Alexander Mackie College of Art, Sydney, Australia.
Music History, Theory & Composition
N.S.W. Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia
1975-76 C.A. Painting, Sculpture Photography and Design
East Sydney Technical College, Sydney, Australia.
TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND ADMINISTRATING:
1984-90 Stone and Ceramic Installation
residential renewal, employing and training in
marginalized New York communities.
1985-86 Agricultural management training, Annadery Farms, Tiga
Dam, Kano state, Nigeria
1981-83 Director of exhibition installation; International
artist liaison for English-speaking participants,
Deutsche Academische Austauch Dienst at D.A.A.D.
Gallery, West Berlin.
1979-81 Apprentice in stone and ceramic installation, A&A
Construction, New York City
1977-79 Apprentice in ceramic installation, Gato Tile, Sydney,
Australia
CONSULTANCY POSITIONS:
1993 Consultant, Benin report, *Amnesty International*,
London England
1988-92 Consultant, African Transurban Program, *Foundation for
Contemporary Research*, Capetown, South Africa
1989-92 Consultant, *Art and Text Magazine*, Melbourne,
Australia
1989-90 Consultant, *Contemporania Magazine*, New York, U.S.A.
BOOKS:
1994 "Invisible Governance - Essays on the Art of African Micro-
Politics" (co-authored with Dr Maliqalim Simone)
*Autonomedia/Semiotext(e)*, New York.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES:
1994 "The Angolan War" *Africa Recovery Briefing Paper*,
(January), DPI United Nations
1994 "Voodoo Child-All Gown Up," *Spin Magazine*, March, New
York, USA
1993 "Voodoo Chief Meets 5th Wife During Stay," *New York
Newsday*, (Bronx Edition: Dec 7; Manhattan Edition: Dec 8)
New York, USA
1993 "Under Secretary-General Kofi Annan on New Challenges in
Peacekeeping" *United Nations Focus* (unpublished), DPI
United Nations.
1993 "Africa Agenda," "Africa in Brief," "Africa Watch," *Africa
Recovery*, Vol.7 No.2, DPI, United Nations.
1993 "Masking Magic" (co-authored with Dr Maliqalim Simone)
*Third Text*, London, England
1992 "Nightlife in the Motherland" (co-authored with Dr Maliqalim
Simone) *Option Magazine*, (November) Los Angeles U.S.A.
1991 "Substance not Shadows" *Artforum* (Summer) New York, U.S.A.
1990 "Mermaids and Other Things From Africa" *Arts Magazine*
(November) New York, U.S.A.
LECTURES:
1993 Open Center of New York
1991 Art Museum of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
Illinois
1990 Pan-African Writers Association Meeting Conakry, Guinea,
West Africa.
1990 Gertrude Street Artist's Space, Melbourne, Australia.
1990 Pahran Institute of Art, Melbourne, Australia.
1990 Royal Melbourne Institute of Art, Australia.
1987 Mosama Christo Disco Church, Mosano, Ghana, West Africa.
1983 Franklin Furnace, New York, U.S.A.
1983 Merve Verlag, West Berlin.
AWARDS:
1991 Conference delegate - African Writers Association, Conakry,
Guinea, West Africa.
1991 Lecture grant - United States Information Agency, U.S.
Embassy, Conakry, Guinea.
1990 Exhibition grant - Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australian
Government.
AFRICAN RESEARCH PROJECTS
Since 1985, various cultural and sociological activities have
been undertaken with religious organizations, political science
and African studies institutions, African government and
development agencies, which include:
African Transurban Program - *Foundation for Contemporary
Research*, Capetown, South Africa.
Consultant since 1988, for a program on the comprehensive
study of emergent African networks and informal
institutions. The project examines enabling socioeconomic
practices of Africans in African and Western urban sites.
Special interest is given to popular economies and real and
potential affiliations with various institutional
structures.
"All Things Considered" National Public Radio (NPR) - *Africa
News* Service Productions, North Carolina.
Commissioned to write two project proposals:
1) Islam and Politics in Nigeria
2) Profile of West Africa Priest: Nana Anthony Annong
Creative Affairs - *MCA Records*, Los Angeles
Commissioned to write four essays on Africa and African
American society and culture for promotional use in the
music industry
Get the Spirit - *New Museum of Contemporary Art*, New York.
Project proposal on contemporary African religious culture
for an exhibition of three non-traditional West African
priests.
Sapeur Magazine - *Ianthe Ltd*, London.
Research and development on magazine on contemporary African
fashion and society
African Video Festival - *ORTS Senegal* T.V. Dakar.
Research and development for African video exhibition in New
York
Nana Annong Shrines, Ghana, West Africa.
Collaborative research with syncretic priest and healer,
Nana Anthony Annong.
REFERENCES:
Dr Abdul Maliqalim Simone, Director of the Foundation for African
Research. Capetown, South Africa.................27 21 22 21 77
Dr Arthur T. Porter, Pro-Chancellor, University of Sierra Leone,
Freetown, Sierra Leone...........................1 232 223 1736
Dr Charles Merewether, Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Monterray, Mexico................................1 212 431 8744
Dr M. B. Abdallah, Ghanaian Minister for Culture and Secretary
Chairman of the National Commission on Culture...1 592 66 83 60
Professor James Clifford, Anthropologist, Director of Center for
Cultural Studies, U.C.S.C., Santa Crus...........1 408 459 2863
Dr Ivan Karp, Curator of African Ethnology, Department of
Anthropology, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C...................................1 201 357 4733
Hannes Heiniman, Regional Director of West African Division,
Swiss Red Cross..................................41 31 66 71 11
Rene Block, Museum Director of the Deutsche Academische Austausch
Dienst, Berlin, Germany..........................49 30 310 0030
Thomas McEvilly, Art Historian...................1 212 475 2089