'Interrupting the present' : political and artistic forms of reenactments in South Africa
- A sense of repetition pervades contemporary South African political and cultural debate. Several recent studies have drawn attention to the fact that the renewed student protests since March 2015 parallel several features of the resistance and liberation movements of the 1970s and 1980s. At a pivotal position between the two moments of political struggle stands the 'miracle' of the peaceful transition in 1994. Within this set of circumstances a group of curators, artists, and writers, Gabi Ngcobo and Kemang Wa Lehulere, amongst others, formed a collective under the name CHR (Center for Historical Reenactments) in Johannesburg in 2010. The CHR has pursued several questions that interrogate the complexity of a shared memory bridging segregated Apartheid legacy: how do readings of the past inform contemporary urgencies, and what are the political potentials of artistic interpretations of histories? How do they participate in the formation of new subjectivities?
Download full text files
Additional Services
| Author: | Katja Gentric |
|---|---|
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-677695 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-21/gentric_interrupting-the-present.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-21_07 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-028-2 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Over and over and over again : reenactment strategies in contemporary arts and theory / ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini ; Cultural Inquiry ; 21 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/04/13 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/05/09 |
| Tag: | Center for Historical Reenactments |
| GND Keyword: | Südafrika. Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Performance <Künste>; Reenactment |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| First Page: | 58 |
| Last Page: | 67 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 495514675 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| Afrika südlich der Sahara | |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
