In the lecture NARRATIVE, MEMORY AND SITE Prof. Jyoti Mistry looks at the ideas of context in two distinct ways. The first considers the role and place of the “black cube” of film as a communal, collective experience and the implications of the ways in which the “black cube” screening space is increasingly repositioned inside the “white cube” of the…
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Jyoti Mistry: Narrative, Memory, and Site
Jyoti Mistry, Narrative, Memory, and Site. 23 May, Zurich. Museum Baerengasse
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I’ve got your back / Watch your back
Collaborate, Lecture by the esteemed Gabi Ngcobo, Museum Baerengasse, Curate Your Context, Nkule Mabaso (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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The Adequate Compensation for Suffering
What should be the adequate compensation for suffering? The connections between this question, the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever (1995) and the South African transitional justice mechanisms of the mid-nineties are drawn, not least, by Derrida himself. During his lecture tour of South Africa in 1998, Derrida chose to focus on the aspect of forgiveness; fittingly so, as…
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Stranger and Bitter Fruit
“Strange and Bitter fruit” is a selection of works from a larger body of work and is a continuation of my exploration of representation and sexualized otherness. The title “Strange and bitter fruit” is taken from Abel Meeropol’s poem “Strange Fruit” performed, most famously, by Billie Holiday. The song speaks about racism in America and the lynching of black American slaves.…
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Some Bodies Episode 1
17 August – 7 September 2013 Somebodies (Ep.1) Female identity is today much more than before, defined by outward appearances. To oppose the dictates of advertising and fashion world to create a few. The South African artist Nkule Mabaso this also has not in mind. Quite the contrary. Is this issue but the driver of their artistic work. How can…
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The Negro Self Improvement Project
Ellen Gallagher, a painter by training, works with “chaos as advertising” (Goodeve 2005:40). Her matter is specifically the magazine advertising directed at the black culture of the “Negro self-improvement” movement of the fifties and sixties (Goodeve 2005). In terms of commercial messages, issues of beauty seem to focus on body type, skin tone, hair texture, and the color of one’s skin is the least…
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Black Threat, Zimbabwe
Maninzi Kwatshube Shocks Zimbabwean Theatre Audiences with Mabaso’s Black Threat A second year University of Cape Town drama student, Maninzi Kwatshube, brought a moving piece of theatre to the Savanna Trust hosted festival, Protest Arts International Festival (PAIF). This is the fourth edition of the festival and it ran under the theme ‘Imagining and Re-Inventing the Future’. When Maninzi heard…
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Lips Painted Red
Lips Painted Red is a project examining how female identities are created and maintained as daily routines, as experiments with personal or social life styles, as consequences of discomfort with gender expectations or with gender displacement. It examines these strategies through a variety of artists’ approaches – male and female, transgender, and of several generations – and through texts written by scholars for the forthcoming catalogue. The exhibition is Trondheim Kunstmuseum’s contribution to the centenary of women’s right to vote in Norway. It is curated by TKM director Pontus Kyander. The exhibition is open 22.6.–15.9.2013.…
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Newcastle Creative Network
Why we exist The NCN was imitated in January 2011 with a desire to stimulate youth engagement in art and cultural activities in Newcastle and its surrounds through innovative programming. The network wishes to engage and support existing programs specifically targeted to ensure adequate or appropriate information dissemination within the population falling below the age of 34. Our mission Our…