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More spectacles in Cape Town: Cyrus Kabiru – nadine botha
https://nadinebotha.com/2015/02/22/more-spectacles-in-cape-town
More spectacles in Cape Town: Cyrus Kabiru. February 22, 2015. June 20, 2016. An exhibition of the C-Stunners spectacles by Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru is running in Cape Town, expressing the multiple, one-of-a-kind perspectives on and from Africa. The press release lobs Kabiru into the Afro-futurism box, a philosophy that has increasingly become an empty populist label celebrating everyone from Sun Ra to Outkast and Janelle Monáe. A fellow at TED’s The Young, the Gifted, the Undiscovered in the US in 201...
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8 things to do with unwanted statues and monuments – nadine botha
https://nadinebotha.com/2015/03/31/8-things-to-do-with-unwanted-statues-and-monuments
8 things to do with unwanted statues and monuments. March 31, 2015. June 20, 2016. Rhodes will fall, but what about all the other monuments and statues throughout the country that remind us of South Africa’s painful past? Found eight creative ways to reconsider history. A 30-year-old political science student, threw human faeces over the statue of Cecil John Rhodes. Noted the realm of statues is still a man’s world meaning that gender is also an important part of this debate. This is the debate that has ...
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Where hypervisibility meets true transformation in the arts – nadine botha
https://nadinebotha.com/2015/03/06/where-hypervisibility-meets-true-transformation-in-the-arts
Where hypervisibility meets true transformation in the arts. March 6, 2015. June 20, 2016. Twelve women curators speak of the challenges of being top decision-makers in South Africa’s art world. Gender bias in the South African art sector favours women, but the hypervisibility of a handful of black artists and curators obscures the fact that true transformation is more elusive. The Doing it for daddy article. In Art South Africa magazine in 2006. A Vanity Fair article. In retrospect, this process was som...
