Acts of transgression : contemporary live art in South Africa / edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle.

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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle -- Artistic citizenship, anatopism and the elusive public: live art in the city of Cape Town / Nomusa Makhubu -- Upsurge / Sarah Nuttall -- "Madam, I can see your penis": disruption and dissonance in the work of Steven Cohen / Catherine Boulle -- The impossibility of curating live art / Jay Pather -- Corporeal HerStories: navigating meaning in Chuma Sopotela's Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda through the artist's words / Kieketso Dee Mohoto-wa Thaluki -- "A different kind of inhabitance": invocation and the politics of mourning in performance work by Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama / Gabrielle Goliath -- State of emergency: inkulumo-mpendulwano (dialogue) of emergent art when ukukhulama (talking) is not enough / Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga -- Space is the place and place is time: refiguring the Black female body as a political site in performance / Same Mdluli -- Don't get it twisted: queer performativity and the emptying out of gesture / Bettina Malcomess -- Performing the queer archive: strategies of self-styling on Instagram / Katlego Disemelo -- Effigy in the archive: ritualising performance and the dead in contemporary South African live art practice / Alan Parker -- To heal a nation: performance and memorialisation in the zone of non-being / Khwezi Gule -- Astronautus Afrikanus: performing African futurism / Mwenya B. Kabwe -- "Touched by an angel" (of history) in Athi-Patra Ruga's The future white women of Azania / Andrew J. Hennlich -- Performance in biopolitical collectivism: a study of Gugulective and iQhiya / Massa Lemu.

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