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Aesthetic Shifts in a Transforming City: Performative Acts and Gestures in the Urban Space of Johannesburg
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ID 2795375
Author(s) Siegenthaler, Fiona
Author(s) at UniBasel Siegenthaler, Fiona
Year 2017
Title Aesthetic Shifts in a Transforming City: Performative Acts and Gestures in the Urban Space of Johannesburg
Editor(s) Moreillon, Olivier; Muller, Alan; Stiebel, Lindy
Book title Cities in Flux: Metropolitan Spaces in South African Literary and Visual Texts
Publisher LIT
Place of publication Zürich
Pages 73-99
ISSN/ISBN 978-3-643-80241-5 ; 978-3-643-80241-0
Series title Schweizerische Afrikastudien. Études africaines suisses
Number 12
Keywords performance art, engaged art, johannesburg, urban change, Steven Cohen, Athi-Patra Ruga, Ismail Farouk, Center for Historical Reenactments, Sello Pesa, Vaughn Sadie, Senzeni Marasela
Abstract In the last two decades, performance artists repeatedly employed the streets, parks, and neighbourhoods of inner city Johannesburg as their stage for performative acts and happenings, responding to, and engaging with, the democratisation of its urban space. The artists, however, act and interact differently in the urban space of Johannesburg and with its diverse audiences. This chapter presents three different types of performance practice that can be understood as examples in a continuum ranging from theatrical/spectacular to a sublime form that has much in common with mimicry. The argument builds on different performance pieces and performative gestures by Steven Cohen, Athi-Patra Ruga, Ismail Farouk, the Center for Historical Reenactments, Sello Pesa & Vaughn Sadie, and Senzeni Marasela and brings them in relation to spatial, social, and political aspects of public space in the city of Johannesburg.
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