- Title
- Reimagining our missing histories: Eria Nsubuga SANE and Sikhumbuzo Makandula in conversational partnership
- Creator
- Makandula, Sikhumbuzo, Nsubuga, Eria
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145620
- Identifier
- vital:38452
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1162/AFAR_a_00345
- Description
- While an interview could be described as a view among, between, betwixt, or in the midst of two subjects—from s'entrevoir (see each other); entre (between) and vue (view)—many interviews in art history are hierarchical not only in the sense of an interviewer “authoring” the material received from the respondent, but also in the sense of the theorist or writer shaping the ideas of the practitioner. As discussed in the First Word, “Situating Africa,” there is a tendency for writers in the “north” to theorize the professional practice of artists in the “south,” developing what Gordon Lewis (2006) refers to as a geography of reason. In their book Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data, Herbert J. Rubin and Irene S. Rubin (2012:7) develop the term “conversational partnership” to describe two or more participants who play an active role in shaping content as they cocreate meaning. This conversational partnership between two artists—one based in Uganda and the other based in South Africa—developed out of the publishing workshop at Rhodes University in June 2016, which aimed to approach the creation of knowledge from the perspective of “sideways learning” (see “Reaching Sideways, Writing Our Ways” in this issue). —Ruth Simbao.
- Format
- 16 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- african arts, Makandula, S. and Nsubuga, E., 2017. Reimagining Our Missing Histories: Eria Nsubuga SANE and Sikhumbuzo Makandula in Conversational Partnership. african arts, 50(2), pp.68-83., african arts volume 50 number 2 68 83 May 2017 1937-2108
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