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imprimer | retour Oppression and Censorship: Aesthetics and Lived Experiences in 20th Century South African Art As part of Conspiracy Dwellings: Symposium on Surveillance in Contemporary Art, Christine Eyene will be presenting a paper on the above subject | Grande-Bretagne | 18|01|2008 www.southhillpark.org.uk

Grande-Bretagne
11.00 - 17.15

This paper will seek to retrace how South African artists inscribed the effects of oppression in their art, in forms as minimalist as the drawings of Dumile (1960s), to open statements like Gavin Jantjes silkscreens (1970s). It will also look at specific cases of censorship (Jantjes' Colouring Book, 1976 and Sue Williamson's Modderdam Postcards 1977) as well as the death of Steve Biko as an iconographical theme.
Photography will be approached as the prime medium by which arose political awareness. The journal and agency Drum (1950s) and Afrapix (1980s-90s) were heavily touched by censorship. Yet, we would also like to consider the notions of aestheticised imagery, of framed reality, the blurring the frontier between art/fiction and reality/realism.
In the 21st century South Africa is still addressing a number of social issues with a government failing to tackle homelessness, unemployment, insecurity, HIV-AIDS, corruption etc. How do artists voice their concern or protest, if any? What is the public response to their work?

Christine Eyene is a 2nd year MPhil student in art history with Professor Annie Coombes at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her area of research is sociopolitical iconography in South African art. Eyene is also art critic and publishing director of French journal Africultures and a recent contributor to Third Text.


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