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... transformation into a multiracial democracy was indeed a change to be celebrated in all corners of the world. It is human nature to rejoice in good times and mourn in tragic times. Like many events of its kind the Cape Town One City Festival came and now it is gone. Now as we proceed with our...

... that to decentralize the exhibition and thus arrived from the world over were a tes• momentarily unite a landscape so eco• Cape Town, South Africa timony to the conviction that this is a nomically...

... in philosophical terms as the world as never before. hospitality. He might mention Okwui s appreciation of his writing on critical humanism, which Colin On a visit to Cape Town, Okwui took a trip to argued had a special life in Africa and was working Cape Point, later recalling: to advance. Informed by Edward...

... White nation-building exercise is an understand• Museum in Cape Town in November 1993, Paper that it was "through this document able response to a long history of inequality which culminated in the publication of a that we are laying a basis to reclaim our...

... of Cape Town, South Africa. Heis a consulting ed• make illustrations of apartheid.. .1 am inter• vidual experience, where bodies are callous• itor of Nka. ested in a political art, that is to say...

... Godby welethu Mthethwa compares the photographs of people he has been taking since 1996 in Crossroads and oth• er informal settlements outside Cape Town with the popular image of these places that has been generated...

... in the space. It was, Cape Town where most residents live in shacks. Rather than other than the works of the artists who chose to work off-site, making them objects of scrutiny, the photographer involves the only redeeming feature in a very poor show. these subjects in the process, allowing...

... of the journey, only being set down for symbolic receptions on the perimeter of each major town on the way. The Volkswag Trek, associ• ated with the Conservative Party, comprised Fig...

... territori• Cape Town this year; she has participated in numerous exhi• ality has lessened. The degree to which South African artists bitions all over South Africa, including a solo show in Cape interact within a global context, and engage in the interna• Town last year; she boasts a solo...

... economics, ennui who lives and works in Cape and transgression on the one Town, South Africa...

.... ritual purposes) and aradh (turmeric). Above this, she suspend• Funded by Marlene Dumas who was herself a young artist in ed the jeans, meticulously painted in exquisite red, orange and Cape Town before establishing an international career in yellow henna designs. Color, aroma...

... with incredible 'Celebrate Life Framed Visions openness and faith in entrusting South African National Gallery Hefuna articulates a complex their personal belongings and (SANG) in Cape Town...

...• SPARCK (Space for Panafrican Research, Creation jects can detach themselves enough from and Knowledge), Cape Town. the mediations of repression so as to offer an alternative that does not subscribe to the Notes same repressive forces...

... the representation of South African town• social conditions of Cape Town's informal settle• ships in three projects, namely Craig Fraser's ments and give a voice—albeit in catchy sound• Shack Chic: Art and Innovation in South Africa's bites—to some of their inhabitants. But Shack Shack...

... Hlobo's second exhibition at a local level, engagement with his work forces those who Michael Stevenson in Cape Town. His first solo show with don't speak the language to become curious about it, and the gallery, Izele (2006) was, in many ways, the dream those who do...

... cm. Courtesy of Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. Photo: Mario Todeschini. 130>IUka Journal of Contemporary African Art almost step into. Viewers are similarly invited to society, a loosely grouped civilization located in explore the negative space between figures...

... Stevenson, Cape Town. 124* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art Botha's production is best characterized by tion seemingly geared for that audience. Entitled what postmodernists would call hostility toward commune: onomatopoeia, the work—with minor grand narratives. Central...

... frames, glass, installation dimensions variable. Courtesy Michael Stevenson, Cape Town...

..., rope, installation dimensions variable. Courtesy Michael Stevenson, Cape Town Journal of Contemporary African Art • 27 • Fall 2010 76 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2010-011  © 2010 by Nka Publications Refracting...

..., yet, as a young white girl, side Ca pe Town, stud ied art at was largely protected from its harsh realiti es. M M ichaelis, th e Un iversi ty of Ca pe Dumas's recollection s of her childhood are situa t• Town 's School of Fine Art, and left South Africa in ed in the ru ral...