Chapter 17 Atomized Solidarity and New Shapes of Resistance
This chapter provides a concise history of visual activism in South Africa and focuses on how contemporary artists and activists make use of visual forms to intervene in public space, to document injustice, and to express dissent. The chapter argues that visual activism is best understood as a call...
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| description | This chapter provides a concise history of visual activism in South Africa and focuses on how contemporary artists and activists make use of visual forms to intervene in public space, to document injustice, and to express dissent. The chapter argues that visual activism is best understood as a call to those who look to move from seeing and knowing to acting. Through analyses of works by visual activists Zanele Muholi, Haroon Gunn-Salie, and the Tokolos Stencils Collective, and through engaging with a campaign created by the social justice movement Section27, the essay shows how such work draws attention to homophobia and sexual violence; impunity for crimes against humanity; and ongoing inequality in the aftermath of apartheid. The essay also considers what occurs when visual activist works are detached from collective mobilizing and circulate within the neo-liberal art economy, producing forms of atomized solidarity. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1015932025-07-17T10:01:12Z Chapter 17 Atomized Solidarity and New Shapes of Resistance Thomas, Kylie activism, Africa, apartheid, dissent, Haroon Gunn-Salie, homophobia, neo-liberal, resistance, Section27, sexual violence, , South Africa, Tokolos Stencils Collective, visual activism, Zanele Muholi, artists, art history, injustice, social justice, inequality thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics This chapter provides a concise history of visual activism in South Africa and focuses on how contemporary artists and activists make use of visual forms to intervene in public space, to document injustice, and to express dissent. The chapter argues that visual activism is best understood as a call to those who look to move from seeing and knowing to acting. Through analyses of works by visual activists Zanele Muholi, Haroon Gunn-Salie, and the Tokolos Stencils Collective, and through engaging with a campaign created by the social justice movement Section27, the essay shows how such work draws attention to homophobia and sexual violence; impunity for crimes against humanity; and ongoing inequality in the aftermath of apartheid. The essay also considers what occurs when visual activist works are detached from collective mobilizing and circulate within the neo-liberal art economy, producing forms of atomized solidarity. 2023-07-19T07:17:16Z 2023-07-19T07:17:16Z 2023-06-21T11:59:39Z 2023 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63643 9780367748173 9780367748203 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/101593 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63643/1/9781003159698_10.4324_9781003159698-21.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63643/1/9781003159698_10.4324_9781003159698-21.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003159698-21 10.4324/9781003159698-21 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century 9780367748173 9780367748203 Routledge 15 open access |
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