ISBN:
9781920196547
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Geometry
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Topology
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Apartheid ; South Africa
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Migration, Internal ; South Africa
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Shoe Shop is an anthology and an experiment in imagining different paths, speaking in different tongues on Africa, movement, public art, migration, beauty: considering an innate humanity. The book has been shaped to create a space for transformation and fluidity, for care, and for the sole pleasure of movement. It is a site for loitering, waiting, but also for doubt and reserving a space to enquire. The book begins with the struggle with the ideas that surround public art in South Africa. Public space remains difficult. Historically, land' is the point of original trauma and injustice. Today still, it is the glaring inequality of the geopolitical landscape that stands as testimony of a continuing structural and social segregation. The hard social realities and the untransformed landscape of apartheid have been addressed in various ways by artists and citizens. Perhaps it is time to rethink and imagine space from the perspective of the passers-by, of people walking and moving through space with their feet on the ground negotiating, wearing, casting off, at other times weaving through, ideological territories of belonging as dictated by notions of nationality, raceor gender. The idea of migration in South Africa is of particular significance. It would be close to impossible to find a single individual whose history and self-definition are not related to some form of migration from roving peoples, settlers and trekkers, to the more recent realities of the Group Areas Act and forced removals. Contemporary waves of emigration and immigration have in recent years turned South African urban centres into truly cosmopolitan and pan- African places. Literal and theoretical notions addressed in the book start with feet, physicality and shoes, moving to real and imagined movements, using invented maps, possible routes, dreams and ideas about the
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Walking movements -- ...just passing through... -- On Walking -- Running -- The open field Some notes on the figure of walking in African film -- The hooks of history Three films -- Greetings Mr Prez -- Lines of Wind & Next Week -- Images of and in migrating practices -- Pictures from here for the people over yonder Photography in migratory circuits -- Going home Illegality and repatriation South Africa - Mozambique Jodi Bieber -- Traces of African migratory identities in the photographic space -- Black Streets (EKI) The quest for greener pasture -- Migrating images Totemism, fetishism, idolatry -- Arriving home and moving on The photographs of Lisl Ponger in Bamako -- To France or wherever The Blue Notes and exile in Europe -- Family portrait -- Dialogues, struggles with ambivalences, family and history -- Conversations Fragments of an oral history of Malian photography -- Presence and absence in Sokona Diabaté's Portrait de famille -- Ambiguous gestures, ambivalent images Migratory aesthetics and contemporary photography -- Where is home? -- Odd futures Thenjiwe Nkosi in conversation -- We won't move -- Space for indeterminacy, coexistence, mixing, in-betweenness -- Thirty Minutes of Amnesia -- Applied pressure -- A Walk in the Night Breaking the lines of force in postcolonial African narratives -- Waiting Daily rhythm in a time of loitering bylaw enforcement -- Bridging movement binaries through time A description of a work in progress -- Bibliography on walking and related subjects -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Back Cover.
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Walking movements; ...just passing through...; On Walking; Running; The open field Some notes on the figure of walking in African film; The hooks of history Three films; Greetings Mr Prez; Lines of Wind & Next Week; Images of and in migrating practices; Pictures from here for the people over yonder Photography in migratory circuits; Going home Illegality and repatriation South Africa - Mozambique Jodi Bieber; Traces of African migratory identities in the photographic space; Black Streets (EKI) The quest for greener pasture
Description / Table of Contents:
Migrating images Totemism, fetishism, idolatryArriving home and moving on The photographs of Lisl Ponger in Bamako; To France or wherever The Blue Notes and exile in Europe; Family portrait; Dialogues, struggles with ambivalences, family and history; Conversations Fragments of an oral history of Malian photography; Presence and absence in Sokona Diabaté's Portrait de famille; Ambiguous gestures, ambivalent images Migratory aesthetics and contemporary photography; Where is home?; Odd futures Thenjiwe Nkosi in conversation; We won't move
Description / Table of Contents:
Space for indeterminacy, coexistence, mixing, in-betweennessThirty Minutes of Amnesia; Applied pressure; A Walk in the Night Breaking the lines of force in postcolonial African narratives; Waiting Daily rhythm in a time of loitering bylaw enforcement; Bridging movement binaries through time A description of a work in progress; Bibliography on walking and related subjects; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Index; Back Cover
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