<style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joshua Cohen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at Columbia University.<span style=""> </span>He apprenticed with master percussionist Mamadouba ‘Mohamed’ Camara in New York and with artists in the Bay Area before conducting Fulbright research in Guinea (2003-04), where he also studied with Billy Camara.<span style=""> </span>At Columbia since fall 2007, he has presented papers on exhibition/performance at the University of British Columbia and the University of California at Santa Cruz.<span style=""> </span>His essay, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“At Converging Obsolescences: The Case for Exhibition-Performance in African Art-Music-Dance,” was published in <i style="">Wreck </i>in 2008.<span style=""> </span></span></p>