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Acts of Trangression : Contemporary Live Art in South Africa

Author :  Jay Pather & Catherine Boulle (Ed)

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Country
South Africa
Publisher
WITS University Press, South Africa
ISBN 9781776142798
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info viii, 376p. ; 244x170mm. ; Full colour illustrations. Includes Index
Product Weight 1000 gms.
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In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa. Set against a contemporary South African society that is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but one that continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism, Acts of Transgression finds a representation of the complexity of this moment within the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The collection probes live art’s intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and
belonging, embodied trauma and loss, questions of archive, memory and the troubling of colonial systems of knowing, an interrogation of narratives of the past and visions for the future. These diverse essays, analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists and accompanied by a striking visual record of more than 50 photographs, represent the first major critical study of contemporary live art in South Africa; a study that is as timeous as it is imperative.

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