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]