- Title
- A Geopolitics of knowledge and the value of discomfort:
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146444
- Identifier
- vital:38526
- Identifier
- https://www.ru.ac.za/fineart/latestnews/alutacontinuadoingitfordaddytenyearson.html
- Description
- In 2006, the short essay ‘Doing it for Daddy’ by visual artist Sharlene Khan caused controversy when it expressed the opinion that since 1994, ‘transformation’ in the visual arts field in South Africa seemed to have halted at the point of White women replacing White men in positions of power. It questioned this new position of dominance in institutions that remained colonially and racially untransformed. On the 16 and 17th of September 2016, the School of Fine Art at Rhodes University will host a one-day symposium ‘A luta Continua: Doing it for Daddy - Ten years on…’ which seeks to both commemorate that article and those who ‘speak up’, but also, fundamentally, to continue looking at the ways in which various social oppressions intersect in the fields of art history and visual arts in South Africa. Presenters include Khwezi Gule, Nontobeko Ntombela, Nomusa Makhubu, Same Mdluli, Fouad Asfour, Ruth Simbao, Sharlene Khan, students from Wits School of Arts and Rhodes Art History and Visual Culture, as well as a performance by visual artist Sikhumbuzo Makandula.
- Format
- 6 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- A Luta Continua: Doing it for Daddy. Rhodes University Fine Art Department symposium, Simbao, R., 2016. A Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Value of Discomfort. A Luta Continua: Doing it for Daddy. Rhodes University Fine Art Department symposium. 16th-17th September 2016., A Luta Continua: Doing it for Daddy. Rhodes University Fine Art Department symposium volume number September 2016
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of Rhodes University (https://www.ru.ac.za/fineart/latestnews/alutacontinuadoingitfordaddytenyearson.html)
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Simbao, Ruth (Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa
RU Department of Fine Art
SDG 05. Gender Equality
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