- Title
- Open debate: ephemeral democracies: interrogating commonality in South Africa
- Creator
- Makhubu, Nomusa
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147626
- Identifier
- vital:38655
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/09528822.2013.796200
- Description
- South Africa's Post-Apartheid era is characterized by the rhetoric of ‘unity in diversity’. However, numerous artist-led public interventions disclose alienating socio-economic conditions. Neoliberal reforms in the context of prevailing structural designs of Apartheid in South Africa weaken the democratization process, making it figurative rather than tangible and participatory. There is a pervasive perception that centres of power within the arts in South Africa are located in institutions of white proprietorship. As a result, young artists create independent establishments where they can have some control over cultural production and dissemination. This article debates the different strategies that are used by young practising artists to confront contemporary challenges in Post-Apartheid South Africa. One of these strategies promotes integration and deracialization through persistent engagement with predominantly white institutions in order to generate a sense of common purpose while the other opts for the power of provocative racialized but marginalized cultural movements.
- Format
- 4 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Third Text, Makhubu, N., 2013. Open Debate: Ephemeral Democracies: Interrogating Commonality in South Africa. Third Text, 27(3), pp.415-418., Third Text volume 27 number 3 415 418 June 2013 1475-5297
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