- Title
- Reaching sideways, writing our ways: the orientation of the arts of Africa discourse
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K, Miko, William B, Ijisakin, Eyitayo T, Tchibozo, Romuald, Hwati, Masimba, NG-Yang, Kristin, Mudekereza, Patrick, Nalubowa, Aidah, Hyacinthe. Genevieve, Jason, Lee-Roy, Abdou, Eman, Chachage, Rehema, Tumusiime, Amanda, Sousa, Suzana, Muchemwa, Fadzai
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145886
- Identifier
- vital:38475
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1162/AFAR_a_00341
- Description
- In Rehema Chachage's video installation, Kwa Baba Rithi Undugu (2010), sculptural objects representing old-fashioned transistor radios are mounted on the wall, side by side (Fig. 1). Embedded in each radio is a small video screen, which reveals a figure who stands in one place while the vertical line of the radio tuner crosses her body in search of the desired frequency (Figs. 2–3). A man's voice wafts in and out as it is periodically interrupted by unsolicited noise, revealing the difficulty of relating to others when sound is interrupted or there is an absence of voice. Voice, writes Chachage, is a “prerequisite for interlocution and the construction of discourse.” This work engages with the assertion that to “live means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree …” and to do so full heartedly with your “eyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit … whole body and deeds” (Bakhtin 1984:293).
- Format
- 20 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- african arts, Simbao, R., Miko, W.B., Ijisakin, E.T., Tchibozo, R., Hwati, M., NG-Yang, K., Mudekereza, P., Nalubowa, A., Hyacinthe, G., Jason, L.R. and Abdou, E., 2017. Reaching sideways, writing our ways: the orientation of the arts of Africa discourse. african arts, 50(2), pp.10-29., african arts volume 50 number 2 10 29 May 2017 1937-2108
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the African arts Statement (https://0-www.jstor.org.wam.seals.ac.za/journal/africanarts)
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa
RU Department of Fine Art
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