Acts of transgression : contemporary live art in South Africa / edited by Jay Pather, Catherine Boulle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pather, Jay.

Contributor:

Pather, Jay, editor.

Boulle, Catherine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance artists--Drama.

Performance artists.

Performance art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Performance art is transgressive and interdisciplinary. Acts of Transgression, an illustrated collection of 15 essays by respected researchers, critically probes where live art and socio-political turbulence intersect in post-apartheid South African society. Focusing on work by 25 contemporary artists, it adds significantly to the field.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE: LIVE ART IN A TIME OF CRISIS

1 Artistic Citizenship, Anatopism and the Elusive Public: Live Art in the City of Cape Town

2 Upsurge

3 'Madam, I Can See Your Penis': Disruption and Dissonance in the Work of Steven Cohen

4 The Impossibility of Curating Live Art

PART TWO: LOSS, LANGUAGE AND EMBODIMENT

5 Corporeal HerStories: Navigating Meaning in Chuma Sopotela's Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda through the Artist's Words

6 'A Different Kind of Inhabitance': Invocation and the Politics of Mourning in Performance Work by Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama

7 State of Emergency: Inkulumo-Mpendulwano (Dialogue) of Emergent Art When Ukukhuluma (Talking) is Not Enough

8 Space is the Place and Place is Time: Refiguring the Black Female Body as a Political Site in Performance

PART THREE: RETHINKING THE ARCHIVE, REINTERPRETING GESTURE

9 don't get it twisted: queer performativity and the emptying out of gesture

10 Performing the Queer Archive: Strategies of Self-Styling on Instagram

11 Effigy in the Archive: Ritualising Performance and the Dead in Contemporary South African Live Art Practice

PART FOUR: SUPPRESSED HISTORIES AND SPECULATIVE FUTURES

12 To Heal a Nation: Performance and Memorialisation in the Zone of Non-Being

13 Astronautus Afrikanus: Performing African Futurism

14 Touched by an Angel' (of History) in Athi-Patra Ruga's The Future White Women of Azania

15 Performance in Biopolitical Collectivism: A Study of Gugulective and iQhiya

Contributors

List of Illustrations

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781776142811

1776142810