- Title
- Post-apartheid nostalgia and the sadomasochistic pleasures of archival art
- Creator
- Nsele, Zamansele
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458648
- Identifier
- vital:75758
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC199624
- Description
- The burgeoning genre of archival art practice in post-apartheid South Africa has catalysed the evocation of nostalgia in abundance. The archive has been at the centre of numerous exhibitions in contemporary art. This paper explores the meaning of an emerging nostalgic turn in post-apartheid South Africa. The discussion considers the pleasure afforded by the sentimentality underpinning nostalgia and attends to the manner in which nostalgia coheres with the creative and aesthetic techniques of archival art. Scopophilia and the covert function of the sadomasochistic gaze are outlined. It is suggested that such acts of retrieval and repetition generally override ethical considerations in part because they unfold from the realm of the unconscious. The paper draws on psychoanalysis by way of Frantz Fanon.
- Format
- 22 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English in Africa, Nsele, Z., 2016. Post-apartheid nostalgia and the sadomasochistic pleasures of archival art. English in Africa, 43(3), pp.95-116, English in Africa volume 43 number 3 95 116 2016 0376-8902
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English in Africa Statement (https://www.ru.ac.za/isea/publications/journals/englishinafrica/)
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