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    Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
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    Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa

    By Katlego Disemelo, Gabrielle Goliath, Khwezi Gule and

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    In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
    Set against a contemporary South African society that is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but one that continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism, Acts of Transgression finds a representation of the complexity of this moment within the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The collection probes live art’s intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and belonging, embodied trauma and loss, questions of archive, memory and the troubling of colonial systems of knowing, an interrogation of narratives of the past and visions for the future.
    These diverse essays, analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists and accompanied by a striking visual record of more than 50 photographs, represent the first major critical study of contemporary live art in South Africa; a study that is as timeous as it is imperative.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWits University Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2019
    ISBN9781776142811
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    Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
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    Katlego Disemelo

    Katlego Disemelo is a media studies scholar who is currently engaged in a joint doctoral programme at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on contemporary mediations of Black queer performance, subcultures and popular consumer landscapes across Africa's continent. He is devoted to decolonial approaches to pedagogy, archival praxis and interrelationships between applied research and LGBTQIA+ human rights activism.

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