New Work: In place of Space

In Place of Space, was a site specific work, exhibited at the Apartheid Archive Conference 2014 entitled Race, Place, Location, Dislocation: Then and Now. The conference was hosted by the University of Pretoria from 21 May to 23 May.

The apartheid legacy of forced removals and displacement has had long standing effects on the individual and social morale of South Africans. Besides for the perpetuated economic and political injustice, there remain psychological consequences related to the loss of financial, emotional, historical and cultural capital. The Group Areas Act of 1950, was the beginning of a number of segregation acts intended to control, divide and segregate South Africans along racial and ethnic lines. The implementation of these acts comprised a massive forced removal and demolition strategy which dislocated millions of non-whites as well as whites. 

The exhibition entitled ‘In place of space’ is a show of fetishised utilitarian objects accumulated by evictees of the apartheid regime’s mass displacement project during the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. The theme explores the idea of home, loss and longing and the emotional trajectories of the disenfranchised within the apartheid and post-apartheid settings. The exhibition addresses this theme by visually representing ‘replacement’ or ‘transitional objects’, furniture, cutlery, implements etc. transferred from family homes in target areas to displaced dwellings in the townships or locations. The numerous losses encountered during forced relocations often render such objects, which become souvenirs of the space, precious or reliquary. ‘In place of space’ aims to elicit narrative interpretations in viewers that begin to explore the internal and physical tensions and struggles that may be encountered in the internalisation of displacement.

'In place of Space'
Antique table & Cement
Site specific installation
20 May 2014

A special thanks to the Apartheid Archive Project organisers - 

Prof. Norman Duncan, Prof. Garth Stevens, Marinda Maree, Hugo Canham- for an excellent platform.

"Beyond the ‘After Math’" article published in Critical Arts

Beyond the ‘After Math’: exploring psychological decolonisation in a post-apartheid context of artistic praxis
Farieda Nazier, 199-215
DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906340


Abstract

This article argues that recontextualising applicable theories of Frantz Fanon through knowledge-seeking art practices can contribute to the ‘decolonisation of the mind’ in a contemporary South African context. The multimodal social intervention, entitled ‘After Math: An Exploration of Temporality, Wounding and Consequence’, hosted by the Apartheid Museum in August 2012 (principal artist and curator Farieda Nazier), is discussed and analysed. The exhibition and this retrospective article are grounded in Nazier's explorations and subsequent application of Fanonian theories and broader postcolonial postulations of place, gender and class. The intervention borrows from Fanon's theories and phenomenological approach to racial discrimination, using them as a point of departure to evoke memory and convey personal struggles within an apartheid and post-apartheid society through a number of visual and embodied modalities.

The online platform for Taylor & Francis Online content Critical Arts, Vol. 28, No. 2, 04 Mar 2014 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online. This new issue contains the following articles: Research articles To be a coconut? Thoughts provoked by Natasha Distiller's Shakespeare and the coconuts: on post-apartheid South African culture Michael Chapman, 165-177 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906338 Heteroglossia in G.H. Musengezi's The Honourable MP (1984) Nyasha Mboti & Cuthbeth Tagwirei, 178-198 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906339 Beyond the ‘After Math’: exploring psychological decolonisation in a post-apartheid context of artistic praxis Farieda Nazier, 199-215 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906340 ‘Lame ducks’ in the time of HIV/AIDS? Exploring female victimhood in selected HIV/AIDS narratives by Zimbabwean female writers Cuthbeth Tagwirei, 216-228 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906341 It begins with you? An ubuntu-centred critique of a social marketing campaign on HIV and AIDS Colin Chasi & Nadira Omarjee,  229-246 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906342 The reinvention of Hollywood's classic white saviour tale in contemporary Chinese cinema: Pavilion of Women and The Flowers of War Jing Yang, 247-263 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906343 Criticising images: critical discourse analysis of visual semiosis in picture ns Jiayu Wang, 264-286 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906344 Voice, alienation and the struggle to be heard: a case study of community radio programming in South Africa Stanley Tsarwe, 287-310 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906345 Under fire Under fire from all sides: a paraliterary exegesis Jessica Webster, 311-312 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906346 Book review Breaking the silence: South African representations of HIV/AIDS Verena Jain-Warden, 313-316 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906347 Obituary Stuart Hall Keyan Tomaselli & Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, 317-318 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.906348 Submission Guidelines: Submissions should be made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcrc (in cases where internet connectivity is not conducive to a ScholarOne submission, we will still accept manuscripts submitted via email to the Critical Arts office. Send to Verona Sathiyah at criticalarts@ukzn.ac.za and/or editor-in-chief, Keyan Tomaselli, at tomasell@ukzn.ac.za). Submissions should be original works not simultaneously submitted elsewhere, between 5000 to 7000 words in length. Referencing should be done according to the Chicago manual of style. Indexes listing Critical Arts: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) [ISI ranked]; Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Alternative Press Index; ARTBibliographies Modern; British Humanities Index; Film Literature Index; Humanities International Index; Index to South African Periodicals; International Bibliography of Social Sciences; International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; M L A International Bibliography; Periodicals Index Online; R I L M Abstracts of Music Literature Critical Arts URLS Author Services http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/ Critical Arts Home Page http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=87 http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcrcauth.asp eJournals Archive (1980-1992) http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/ To update which email alerts you receive, please go to: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showPreferences?menuTab=alerts If you wish to unsubscribe from this alert, please visit http://www.tandfonline.com/action/removeAlert?ai=lu0gz&sig=1EC4HVnOaek%3D If you need any further help, please contact us at support@tandfonline.com Please do not reply to this email. To ensure that you receive your alerts and information from Taylor & Francis Online, please add "alerts@tandfonline.com" and "info@tandfonline.com" to your safe senders list. Taylor & Francis, an Informa business. Taylor & Francis is a trading name of Informa UK Limited, registered in England under no. 1072954. Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London, W1T 3JH.