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Vakalisa Art Associates
Vakalisa Arts Association (1982- c. 1992) was a network of black cultural workers that was active in the Western Cape. Vakalisa held several exhibitions and cultural events in community spaces, and published five calendars and two volumes of poetry.
Adams, Keith – Then: writer. Now: adult educator at St Joseph’s Adult Education Programme, Rondebosch, Cape Town
Adams, Willie
Andrews, Kate – Then: poet
Appolis, Tyrone – Then: visual artist, musician. Now: artist
Baker, Joan – Then: writer. Now: deceased
Baker, Kenny – Then: visual artist. Now: deceased
Barry, Michael – Then: visual artist and teacher. Now: artist, and Head of Department of Arts and Culture, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Benjamin, Jean – Then: writer. Now: Deputy Minister of Social Development, South Africa
Berry, Peter
Budaza, Hamilton – Then: visual artist and teacher at CAP. Now: curator, University of The Western Cape
Clarke, Peter – Then & now: visual artist and poet.
Combrinck, Lisa – Then: writer. Now: spokesperson, Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa
Davids, Johann – Then: visual artist
Davids, Mervyn – Then: visual artist and teacher. Now: teacher
Davis, Lionel – Then: visual artist and teacher at CAP. Now: artist
Dennis, Carl
Dikeni, Sandile – Then & now: poet
Durrock, Patrick
Erasmus, Garth – Then: visual artist and teacher. Now: artist and musician
Espin, Mark – Then: writer. Now: project coordinator, Centre For The Book, Cape Town
Essop, Sydda
Gabriels, Theo
George, Charlton – Then: actor and member of Action Workshop. Now: actor
Hlongwane, David – Then: CAP student. Now: curator, University of The Western Cape
Hollman, Rudien – Then: poet and writer
Holo, Patrick – Then: visual artist and teacher at the Nyanga Art Centre. Now: artist
Jansen, Beverly
Johnstone, Abduraghiem – Then: poet
Lombard, Rashid – Then: photographer. Now: CEO, ESP Afrika (Cape Town Jazz festival) Interview
Lupuwana, Luthando – Then & now: visual artist
Matthews, James – Then: poet and publisher. Now: poet
Matthews, Jimi – Then: photojournalist. Now: head of news, SABC
Meintjies , Frank – Then: writer and cultural activist. Now: political analyst and social change practitioner
Mthethwa, Zwelethu – Then & now: visual artist
Mthini, Mawande – Then: CAP student. Now: artist
Parenzee, Donald – Then: poet and architect. Now: poet, and member of ASAI
Prodehl, Arthur – Then: visual artist
Sauls, Lloyd – Then: photographer
Sickle, Mario – Then: visual artist and teacher at CAP
Siers, Rushdy – Then & now: writer
Smallberg, Mavis – Then & now: poet
Solomons, Vanessa – Then: UCT fine arts student and CAP teacher. Now: artist, New York
Swart, Dehran – Then: photographer. Now: senior project manager, Paraffin Safety Association of South Africa
Thomas, Gladys – Then: writer
Thomas, Stanley – Then: graphic designer
Weeder, Michael
Willemse, Hein – Then: literary academic. Now: professor, University of Pretoria
Vallie, Zubeida – Then: photographer
Keith Adams, Vakalisa Arts Associates, 1982 – 1992: Reflections, (ASAI, 2021).
Feeding the Hand that Bites: South African Art & the Valparaiso Biennial of 1987
Colin Richards, 20 December 2010
my people, tell me:
what does, what breaks the chains?
(Mongane Wally Serote ‘Time Has Run Out’)
…with no other law but torture
and the lashing hunger of the people
(Pablo Neruda ‘The Satraps’)
De-segregating the Audience: Race & the Politics of Exhibitions
by Mario Pissarra
This was prepared for a panel discussion with the same title, held at the Centre for the Book, Cape Town, on 19 August 2010. The panel formed part of the “Beyond the Racial Lens” conference, which was itself part of the “Bonani 2010 Festival of Documentary Photography” convened by SAHO. Thembinkosi Goniwe and Khwezi Gule were also part of the panel, which was chaired by Farzanah Badsha.
The Curator as Culture Broker: A Critique of the Curatorial Regime of Okwui Enwezor in the Discourse of Contemporary African Art
Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, 23 June 2010
Prologue
I presented this essay recently at the University of California Santa Cruz, at a conference titled The Task of the Curator. The general audience reception to my presentation showed me that the issue discussed here is being very much debated in the field of African art history. However, few people have written about it. I think formal critical analysis of our work and positions are very important for a field to grow. I am posting it here in the hope that it allows us to start discussing the important issues it touches on.
Decolonisation of art in Africa: a post-apartheid South African perspective
by Mario Pissarra
[Note: This was presented at the annual conference of the South African Visual Arts Historians at the University of Stellenbosch, 2008.]
This is not a tightly argued paper, but more of a loose mapping of ideas that have preoccupied me for several years, ideas triggered by the implications of the concept of decolonisation, specifically as it has relevance for the visual arts, within but not limited to the contemporary South African context. [1]
Re-reading Malangatana
by Mario Pissarra
[Note: An edited version of this essay appeared in Farafina #11]
For more than 40 years Malangatana has been one of Mozambique’s best known cultural figures, and indisputably her best known visual artist. Since his first appearance in a group exhibition in Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) in 1959, Malangatana’s works have been shown in numerous countries across the globe. His trademark style – dense compositions contained within shallow pictorial space, consisting of simplified shapes, mostly figurative, often with pronounced eyes and teeth, and typically rendered with a bright palette and bold outlines – is instantly recognisable.
Accumulated Material: Contemporary Altares and Ofrendas
Jesus Macarena-Avila, 15 August 2006
[This essay was written for an exhibition featuring Giselle A. Mercier, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, and Edra Soto, at Gallery Visio, University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA, curated by Jesus Macarena-Avila, 7-18 November 2006]INTRODUCTION: RECYCLIA AS TRANSFORMATION
