Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9781776142798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str.

Jay Pather; Catherine Boulle

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction – Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle
• Part One: Live Art in a Time Of Crisis
• Chapter 1 Artistic Citizenship, Anatopism and the Elusive Public: Live Art in the City of Cape Town – Nomusa Makhubu
• Chapter 2 Upsurge – Sarah Nuttall
• Chapter 3 ‘Madam, I Can See Your Penis’: Disruption and Dissonance in the Work of Steven Cohen – Catherine Boulle
• Chapter 4 The Impossibility of Curating Live Art – Jay Pather
• Part Two: Loss, Language and Embodiment
• Chapter 5 Corporeal Her Stories: Navigating Meaning in Chuma Sopotela’s Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda through the Artist’s Words – Lieketso Dee Mohoto-Wa Thaluki
• Chapter 6 A Different Kind of Inhabitance: Invocation and the Politics of Mourning in Performance Work by Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama – Gabrielle Goliath
• Chapter 7 State of Emergency: Inkulumo-Mpendulwano (Dialogue) of Emergent Art When Ukukhuluma (Talking) is Not Enough – Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga
• Chapter 8 Space is the Place and Place is Time: Refiguring the Black Female Body as a Political Site in Performance – Same Mdluli Part Three: Rethinking the Archive, Reinterpreting Gesture
• Chapter 9 don’t get it twisted: queer performativity and the emptying out of gesture – Bettina Malcomess
• Chapter 10 Performing the Queer Archive: Strategies of Self-Styling on Instagram – Katlego Disemelo
• Chapter 11 Effigy in the Archive: Ritualising Performance and the Dead in Contemporary South African Live Art Practice – Alan Parker
• Part Four: Suppressed Histories and Speculative Futures
• Chapter 12 To Heal a Nation: Performance and Memorialisation in the Zone of Nonbeing – Khwezi Gule
• Chapter 13 Astronautus Afrikanus: Performing African Futurism – Mwenya B. Kabwe
• Chapter 14 ‘Touched by an Angel’ (of History) in Athi-Patra Ruga’s The Future White Women of Azania – Andrew J. Hennlich
• Chapter 15: Performance in Biopolitical Collectivism: A Study of Gugulective and iQhiya – Massa Lemu
• Contributors
• Index