Awards

• Short-listed for National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Best Edited Non-Fiction Book 2020 (South Africa)

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Author:   Jay Pather ,  Catherine Boulle ,  Jay Pather ,  Catherine Boulle
Publisher:   Wits University Press
Imprint:   Wits University Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781776142798

ISBN 10:   1776142799
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction – Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle Part One: Live Art in a Time Of Crisis Chapter 1 Artistic Citizenship, Anatopism and the Elusive Public: Live Art in the City of Cape Town – Nomusa Makhubu Chapter 2 Upsurge – Sarah Nuttall Chapter 3 ‘Madam, I Can See Your Penis’: Disruption and Dissonance in the Work of Steven Cohen – Catherine Boulle Chapter 4 The Impossibility of Curating Live Art – Jay Pather Part Two: Loss, Language and Embodiment Chapter 5 Corporeal Her Stories: Navigating Meaning in Chuma Sopotela’s Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda through the Artist’s Words – Lieketso Dee Mohoto-Wa Thaluki Chapter 6 A Different Kind of Inhabitance: Invocation and the Politics of Mourning in Performance Work by Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama – Gabrielle Goliath Chapter 7 State of Emergency: Inkulumo-Mpendulwano (Dialogue) of Emergent Art When Ukukhuluma (Talking) is Not Enough – Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga Chapter 8 Space is the Place and Place is Time: Refiguring the Black Female Body as a Political Site in Performance – Same Mdluli Part Three: Rethinking the Archive, Reinterpreting Gesture Chapter 9 don’t get it twisted: queer performativity and the emptying out of gesture – Bettina Malcomess Chapter 10 Performing the Queer Archive: Strategies of Self-Styling on Instagram – Katlego Disemelo Chapter 11 Effigy in the Archive: Ritualising Performance and the Dead in Contemporary South African Live Art Practice – Alan Parker Part Four: Suppressed Histories and Speculative Futures Chapter 12 To Heal a Nation: Performance and Memorialisation in the Zone of Nonbeing – Khwezi Gule Chapter 13 Astronautus Afrikanus: Performing African Futurism – Mwenya B. Kabwe Chapter 14 ‘Touched by an Angel’ (of History) in Athi-Patra Ruga’s The Future White Women of Azania – Andrew J. Hennlich Chapter 15: Performance in Biopolitical Collectivism: A Study of Gugulective and iQhiya – Massa Lemu Contributors Index

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This landmark publication is an illuminating and indispensable gathering of the most critical voices thinking today about the role of performance in the shaping of the self, identity, agency, community and nation.-Okwui Enwezor, former director of Haus der Kunst, Munich and artistic director of 56th Venice Biennial Acts of Transgression seeks not to contain the complex worlds of some of South Africa's most compelling live artists, but instead pulls us in with urgency and pause, and in so doing makes us alive to the power of the serious, playful, and radical acts of imagination that are both of and beyond this postapartheid apartheid.-Panashe Chigumadzi, author of These Bones Will Rise Again This original book is essential and important: it situates contemporary performance in its African context. Its strength lies in its embeddedness in the many ethnicities, tribes and languages that make up South African society.-RoseLee Goldberg, author of Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century and Founding Director of Performa

This landmark publication is an illuminating and indispensable gathering of the most critical voices thinking today about the role of performance in the shaping of the self, identity, agency, community and nation.-Okwui Enwezor, former director of Haus der Kunst, Munich and artistic director of the 56th Venice Biennale An essential and important book. Its strength lies in its embeddeness in themany cultures that make up South African society.-RoseLee Goldberg, author of Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century and Founding Director of Performa Acts of Transgression seeks not to contain the complex worlds of some of South Africa's most compelling live artists, but instead pulls us in with urgency and pause, and in so doing makes us alive to the power of the serious, playful, and radical acts of imagination that are both of and beyond this postapartheid apartheid.-Panashe Chigumadzi, author of These Bones Will Rise Again

Author Information

Jay Pather is a choreographer, curator and academic. He is Director of the Institute for Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Associate Professor in UCT’s Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. Catherine Boulle is a writer and researcher at the Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town where her work includes initiating new research on live art in South Africa.

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