Acts of transgression : contemporary live art in South Africa /

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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