Nomusa Makhubu
Biographic Data
| ID | 127766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nomusa Makhubu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nomusa |
| FAMILY NAME | Makhubu |
| SIGNATURE | MAKHUBU N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2546-4701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
After All Is Said and Done: On Fluid Solidarity and Survival
There is no doubt, given seemingly permanent social, environmental, and economic crises, that transnational solidarity is fundamental in the renewal and survival of art institutions. In the last couple of years, there have been several online discursive platforms—panels, symposia, colloquia—featuring artists, cultural critics, and academics to reflect on the consequences of global disasters such as the coronavirus pandemic on the livelihood of ar…
Mntambo, Nandipha
Examining perceptions of inclusion of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in art and design higher education in Bahrain
Despite the current endeavors by the government in Bahrain to promote inclusion of students with special educational needs, the perceptions of deaf and hard-of-hearing students’ inclusion is yet to be examined in the art or design classroom. The research involves a thematic analysis of the challenges and opportunities of inclusive education in art and design higher educational settings, and investigates the perceptions of educators, parents, and …
A typology of adaptive façades. An empirical study based on the morphology of glazed facades
A building’s façade is its main interface with the external environment. Adaptive façade, one recent invention in the façade industry, has the capability to change its behaviour in real-time to respond to internal and/or external parameters, by means of materials, components, and systems. Among these, the adaptive shading and the façade glazing are two components that must fit together. This paper focuses on the spatial relationship between these…
From minstrelsy to the spoken word poet: Oral tradition and postcolonial Nigeria
This paper attempts to trace the influences, interactions, conflations and developmental trajectories that link the ancient art of oral chants, poetry, minstrelsy, and the contemporary and modernist spoken word versifications in practice today in Nigeria. Audience, form, content, and intent have been pivotal factors in the different epochs that separate the ancient precursors and the present forms in this performance matrix. Through ethnographic …
‘This land is not for sale’: Post-1994 resistance art and interventionism in Cape Town's precarious publics
The experience of movement in orbital space architecture: A narrative of weightlessness
Based upon a combination of architectural theories, the knowledge of space environment, and psychology of isolated and confined environments, this qualitative research aims to study orbital space settlement in a way to get the built space congenial to the human experience of movement. In this sense, sensors, self-propulsion or mechanical actuators, the inhabitant’s mental and visual capacity for movement, as well as the represented and imbedded m…
Preservation and conservation of Cross River Monoliths for tourism development
Heritage and conservation have gained currency in academic and professional discourses on tourism and resource preservation across the globe. Today, many developed and some developing economies regard heritage as a very significant component of tourism. Literary documents on studies conducted in Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and UK are cases in point. In southeastern Nigeria, there are numerous unique heritage sites that can be harnessed …
On Apartheid Ruins: Art, Protest and the South African Social Landscape
Recent protests against colonial racism and power at the University of Cape Town have engaged specific forms of ‘formal’ artwork found on the campus. The burning of paintings during the Shackville protests in February 2016 raised a number of fundamental questions. The shack built by protesting students and referred to as Shackville was later demolished by university authorities and security but bears potency as a creative intervention. In this ar…
Curating as World-Making - An Art on Our Mind Creative Dialogue
This creative dialogue is part of the Art on our Mind Research Project public talk series run by South African visual artist and scholar Sharlene Khan, which invites South African women-of-colour c
“Kaboudan and Esfandiar” under eclecticism: An analytical study
Special theatrical forms have been developed in many geographical-cultural areas of the world, and are indigenous to that area. In comparison with the original forms, these forms are considered as traditional, and when they are comprehensive, they are considered as national. The present research investigates “Kaboudan and Esfandiar” based on eclectic theory. “Kaboudan and Esfandiar” result from dramatic storytelling, and are combined with Western…
Art, art education, creative industry: Critique of commodification and fetishism of art aesthetics in Indonesia
This paper analyses one of the dark or negative side phenomenon in the creative industries, with particular focus on art and art education in Indonesia. It is the hegemony of economic considerations in its discourse. As a result, culture and creativity itself, as the essential spirits of the creative industry, are subordinated to considerations of materialism and profit calculation. In this discourse, art tends be defined not as a subject but as …
The role of perspective in the contemporary artistic practice
The influence of scientific research in art is not exclusively a contemporary phenomenon. The Alberti model of pictorial representation based on perspective, as well as the social consideration of art, included Painting among the liberal arts because of the mathematical principles of geometry which it was founded on. For more than 400 years, perspective would be called the “science of art” and it established, almost in a unitary way, a representa…
On the borders of Wakanda
Nakia:I can’t be happy here knowing that there’s people out there who have nothing. What would you have Wakanda do about it? Share what we have. We could provide aid and access to technology and re
The Poetics of Entanglement in Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Food Interventions
Through an analysis of Zina Saro-Wiwa’s food interventions, this essay re-visits the idea of entanglement (Hofmeyr 2004; Kiewiet 1957; Mbembe 2001; Wenzel 2009; Nuttall 2009). This concept, I argue, is embedded in Saro-Wiwa’s work, reflecting neo-colonial circuits of trade, resource extraction and labour exploitation. Its poetic and political potency engages with food and people and their intricate relations to land, particularly in the Niger Del…
Art by any other name: Mediated performance art and temporality in early Nollywood video-film
Does Nollywood video-film have a place in visual art? Could a profoundly popular visual form such as Nollywood – intensely significant to a very large number of people – be seen as video art or performance art? Rooted in itinerant theatre, celluloid cinema and television programmes, the study of Early Nollywood video-film necessitates a trans-disciplinary approach to its contra-institution visual aesthetic. Writing as an art historian, I argue th…
Screening the fantastic – citizenship and postcolonial theoconomies in African video-film and photography
How can the fantastic be used as a conceptual framework to think critically about citizenship in relation to the resonances between religion and capital? Through a visual analysis of Nollywood video-film as well as the photographic and video work by Nigerian photographer, Andrew Esiebo, I argue that complex relations between politics, religion and socio-economic dynamics create fantastic publics in which citizenship is continually negotiated. Int…
Changing the city after our heart's desire: Creative protest in Cape Town
In the city of Cape Town, ubiquitous stencilled texts proclaim “This city works for a few”, “Remember Marikana”, “Dehumanization Zone”, “Not yet Uhuru”, “Gentrinaaiers”; there are also stickers saying “Non-Poor Only”. The image of Mgcineni “Mambush” Noki, an iconic symbol of the Marikana massacre, predominates on walls, road signs and bridges. These texts, labels and symbols interject city texts into commercial and road signage to reveal the “leg…
This House Is Not for Sale”: Nollywood's Spatial Politics and Concepts of “Home” in Zina Saro-Wiwa's Art
In Lagos, it is common to come upon houses with the hand-painted sign: “this house is not for sale” (Fig. 1). This arises because con artists frequently sell other people's homes to unsuspecting buyers. The notion of a home being sold off through a con echoes the discourse surrounding the flight of the country's oil resources, from which the majority of the citizens do not benefit. The “crisis” of the home is symbolic of the “crisis” of the natio…
Interpreting the fantastic: Video-Film as Intervention
The fantastic in Nollywood video-film is often criticized for its representation of the supernatural. This paper develops the notion of the fantastic as an analytical tool that positions epic video-film as interventionist. By analysing two films, I interrogate the generally understood version of the space–time dimensions of epic video-films. The depiction of the ‘past’ in epic video-film, I argue, divulges more about the contradictions of linear …
Global Nollywood: The transnational dimensions of an African video film industry
Global Nollywood is an important contribution to the burgeoning inter-disciplinary field of study now known as Nollywood Studies. Nollywood, the Nigerian video film industry, has become a profoundl
Nollywood
Open Debate: Ephemeral Democracies: Interrogating Commonality in South Africa
South Africa's Post-Apartheid era is characterized by the rhetoric of ‘unity in diversity’. However, numerous artist-led public interventions disclose alienating socio-economic conditions. Neoliberal reforms in the context of prevailing structural designs of Apartheid in South Africa weaken the democratization process, making it figurative rather than tangible and participatory. There is a pervasive perception that centres of power within the art…
The Art of Change: Perspectives on Transformation in South Africa: Editorial
There have been almost two decades of democracy in South Africa, yet rising anger and violent discontent lay bare continuing inequity. It is timely to ask the question: can South Africans really be
Politics of the Strange: Revisiting Pieter Hugo's Nollywood
On Apartheid Ruins: Art, Protest and the South African Social Landscape
Recent protests against colonial racism and power at the University of Cape Town have engaged specific forms of ‘formal’ artwork found on the campus. The burning of paintings during the Shackville protests in February 2016 raised a number of fundamental questions. The shack built by protesting students and referred to as Shackville was later demolished by university authorities and security but bears potency as a creative intervention. In this ar…
Nigerian television: Fifty years of television in Africa
Oluyinka Esan Princeton, NJ: AMV Publishing Services. 2009. pp. 349 ISBN 978-09766941-2-0 (paperback)
Interpreting the fantastic: Video-Film as Intervention
The fantastic in Nollywood video-film is often criticized for its representation of the supernatural. This paper develops the notion of the fantastic as an analytical tool that positions epic video-film as interventionist. By analysing two films, I interrogate the generally understood version of the space–time dimensions of epic video-films. The depiction of the ‘past’ in epic video-film, I argue, divulges more about the contradictions of linear …
The Art of Change: Perspectives on Transformation in South Africa: Editorial
There have been almost two decades of democracy in South Africa, yet rising anger and violent discontent lay bare continuing inequity. It is timely to ask the question: can South Africans really be
Open Debate: Ephemeral Democracies: Interrogating Commonality in South Africa
South Africa's Post-Apartheid era is characterized by the rhetoric of ‘unity in diversity’. However, numerous artist-led public interventions disclose alienating socio-economic conditions. Neoliberal reforms in the context of prevailing structural designs of Apartheid in South Africa weaken the democratization process, making it figurative rather than tangible and participatory. There is a pervasive perception that centres of power within the art…
Changing the city after our heart's desire: Creative protest in Cape Town
In the city of Cape Town, ubiquitous stencilled texts proclaim “This city works for a few”, “Remember Marikana”, “Dehumanization Zone”, “Not yet Uhuru”, “Gentrinaaiers”; there are also stickers saying “Non-Poor Only”. The image of Mgcineni “Mambush” Noki, an iconic symbol of the Marikana massacre, predominates on walls, road signs and bridges. These texts, labels and symbols interject city texts into commercial and road signage to reveal the “leg…
This House Is Not for Sale”: Nollywood's Spatial Politics and Concepts of “Home” in Zina Saro-Wiwa's Art
In Lagos, it is common to come upon houses with the hand-painted sign: “this house is not for sale” (Fig. 1). This arises because con artists frequently sell other people's homes to unsuspecting buyers. The notion of a home being sold off through a con echoes the discourse surrounding the flight of the country's oil resources, from which the majority of the citizens do not benefit. The “crisis” of the home is symbolic of the “crisis” of the natio…
The Poetics of Entanglement in Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Food Interventions
Through an analysis of Zina Saro-Wiwa’s food interventions, this essay re-visits the idea of entanglement (Hofmeyr 2004; Kiewiet 1957; Mbembe 2001; Wenzel 2009; Nuttall 2009). This concept, I argue, is embedded in Saro-Wiwa’s work, reflecting neo-colonial circuits of trade, resource extraction and labour exploitation. Its poetic and political potency engages with food and people and their intricate relations to land, particularly in the Niger Del…
Race and the anxieties of cultural obscurity: Meditations on blackness in South African performance and video art
The focus on politically circumscribed identities in South African visual arts during the first decade of the post- Apartheid era (1994–2004) illuminated key tensions in the process of transformation. The arts practice, in general, seemed to respond directly to social imbalances that were established through Apartheid and roused significant discussions around issues of power with regard to racial and gender identity constructions. Arguably, the ‘…
On the borders of Wakanda
Nakia:I can’t be happy here knowing that there’s people out there who have nothing. What would you have Wakanda do about it? Share what we have. We could provide aid and access to technology and re
Art by any other name: Mediated performance art and temporality in early Nollywood video-film
Does Nollywood video-film have a place in visual art? Could a profoundly popular visual form such as Nollywood – intensely significant to a very large number of people – be seen as video art or performance art? Rooted in itinerant theatre, celluloid cinema and television programmes, the study of Early Nollywood video-film necessitates a trans-disciplinary approach to its contra-institution visual aesthetic. Writing as an art historian, I argue th…
Screening the fantastic – citizenship and postcolonial theoconomies in African video-film and photography
How can the fantastic be used as a conceptual framework to think critically about citizenship in relation to the resonances between religion and capital? Through a visual analysis of Nollywood video-film as well as the photographic and video work by Nigerian photographer, Andrew Esiebo, I argue that complex relations between politics, religion and socio-economic dynamics create fantastic publics in which citizenship is continually negotiated. Int…
Global Nollywood: The transnational dimensions of an African video film industry
Global Nollywood is an important contribution to the burgeoning inter-disciplinary field of study now known as Nollywood Studies. Nollywood, the Nigerian video film industry, has become a profoundl
Nollywood
Politics of the Strange: Revisiting Pieter Hugo's Nollywood
Violence and the cultural logics of pain: Representations of sexuality in the work of Nicholas Hlobo and Zanele Muholi
Nicholas Hlobo and Zanele Muholi have raised critical issues regarding sexual identity in patriarchal contexts since they premiered at the Michael Stevenson Gallery in 2005. Nicholas Hlobo, a sculptor and performance artist, and Zanele Muholi, a photographer and activist, explore different ways of representing sexuality – in particular, homosexuality. Hlobo investigates notions of masculinity and the practice of circumcision, while Muholi documen…
Nigerian television: Fifty years of television in Africa
Oluyinka Esan Princeton, NJ: AMV Publishing Services. 2009. pp. 349 ISBN 978-09766941-2-0 (paperback)
Race and the anxieties of cultural obscurity: Meditations on blackness in South African performance and video art
The focus on politically circumscribed identities in South African visual arts during the first decade of the post- Apartheid era (1994–2004) illuminated key tensions in the process of transformation. The arts practice, in general, seemed to respond directly to social imbalances that were established through Apartheid and roused significant discussions around issues of power with regard to racial and gender identity constructions. Arguably, the ‘…
Violence and the cultural logics of pain: Representations of sexuality in the work of Nicholas Hlobo and Zanele Muholi
Nicholas Hlobo and Zanele Muholi have raised critical issues regarding sexual identity in patriarchal contexts since they premiered at the Michael Stevenson Gallery in 2005. Nicholas Hlobo, a sculptor and performance artist, and Zanele Muholi, a photographer and activist, explore different ways of representing sexuality – in particular, homosexuality. Hlobo investigates notions of masculinity and the practice of circumcision, while Muholi documen…
Open Debate: Ephemeral Democracies: Interrogating Commonality in South Africa
South Africa's Post-Apartheid era is characterized by the rhetoric of ‘unity in diversity’. However, numerous artist-led public interventions disclose alienating socio-economic conditions. Neoliberal reforms in the context of prevailing structural designs of Apartheid in South Africa weaken the democratization process, making it figurative rather than tangible and participatory. There is a pervasive perception that centres of power within the art…
The Art of Change: Perspectives on Transformation in South Africa: Editorial
There have been almost two decades of democracy in South Africa, yet rising anger and violent discontent lay bare continuing inequity. It is timely to ask the question: can South Africans really be
Politics of the Strange: Revisiting Pieter Hugo's Nollywood
Nollywood
Global Nollywood: The transnational dimensions of an African video film industry
Global Nollywood is an important contribution to the burgeoning inter-disciplinary field of study now known as Nollywood Studies. Nollywood, the Nigerian video film industry, has become a profoundl
This House Is Not for Sale”: Nollywood's Spatial Politics and Concepts of “Home” in Zina Saro-Wiwa's Art
In Lagos, it is common to come upon houses with the hand-painted sign: “this house is not for sale” (Fig. 1). This arises because con artists frequently sell other people's homes to unsuspecting buyers. The notion of a home being sold off through a con echoes the discourse surrounding the flight of the country's oil resources, from which the majority of the citizens do not benefit. The “crisis” of the home is symbolic of the “crisis” of the natio…
Interpreting the fantastic: Video-Film as Intervention
The fantastic in Nollywood video-film is often criticized for its representation of the supernatural. This paper develops the notion of the fantastic as an analytical tool that positions epic video-film as interventionist. By analysing two films, I interrogate the generally understood version of the space–time dimensions of epic video-films. The depiction of the ‘past’ in epic video-film, I argue, divulges more about the contradictions of linear …
Art by any other name: Mediated performance art and temporality in early Nollywood video-film
Does Nollywood video-film have a place in visual art? Could a profoundly popular visual form such as Nollywood – intensely significant to a very large number of people – be seen as video art or performance art? Rooted in itinerant theatre, celluloid cinema and television programmes, the study of Early Nollywood video-film necessitates a trans-disciplinary approach to its contra-institution visual aesthetic. Writing as an art historian, I argue th…
Screening the fantastic – citizenship and postcolonial theoconomies in African video-film and photography
How can the fantastic be used as a conceptual framework to think critically about citizenship in relation to the resonances between religion and capital? Through a visual analysis of Nollywood video-film as well as the photographic and video work by Nigerian photographer, Andrew Esiebo, I argue that complex relations between politics, religion and socio-economic dynamics create fantastic publics in which citizenship is continually negotiated. Int…
Changing the city after our heart's desire: Creative protest in Cape Town
In the city of Cape Town, ubiquitous stencilled texts proclaim “This city works for a few”, “Remember Marikana”, “Dehumanization Zone”, “Not yet Uhuru”, “Gentrinaaiers”; there are also stickers saying “Non-Poor Only”. The image of Mgcineni “Mambush” Noki, an iconic symbol of the Marikana massacre, predominates on walls, road signs and bridges. These texts, labels and symbols interject city texts into commercial and road signage to reveal the “leg…
On the borders of Wakanda
Nakia:I can’t be happy here knowing that there’s people out there who have nothing. What would you have Wakanda do about it? Share what we have. We could provide aid and access to technology and re
The Poetics of Entanglement in Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Food Interventions
Through an analysis of Zina Saro-Wiwa’s food interventions, this essay re-visits the idea of entanglement (Hofmeyr 2004; Kiewiet 1957; Mbembe 2001; Wenzel 2009; Nuttall 2009). This concept, I argue, is embedded in Saro-Wiwa’s work, reflecting neo-colonial circuits of trade, resource extraction and labour exploitation. Its poetic and political potency engages with food and people and their intricate relations to land, particularly in the Niger Del…
“Kaboudan and Esfandiar” under eclecticism: An analytical study
Special theatrical forms have been developed in many geographical-cultural areas of the world, and are indigenous to that area. In comparison with the original forms, these forms are considered as traditional, and when they are comprehensive, they are considered as national. The present research investigates “Kaboudan and Esfandiar” based on eclectic theory. “Kaboudan and Esfandiar” result from dramatic storytelling, and are combined with Western…
Art, art education, creative industry: Critique of commodification and fetishism of art aesthetics in Indonesia
This paper analyses one of the dark or negative side phenomenon in the creative industries, with particular focus on art and art education in Indonesia. It is the hegemony of economic considerations in its discourse. As a result, culture and creativity itself, as the essential spirits of the creative industry, are subordinated to considerations of materialism and profit calculation. In this discourse, art tends be defined not as a subject but as …
The role of perspective in the contemporary artistic practice
The influence of scientific research in art is not exclusively a contemporary phenomenon. The Alberti model of pictorial representation based on perspective, as well as the social consideration of art, included Painting among the liberal arts because of the mathematical principles of geometry which it was founded on. For more than 400 years, perspective would be called the “science of art” and it established, almost in a unitary way, a representa…
‘This land is not for sale’: Post-1994 resistance art and interventionism in Cape Town's precarious publics
The experience of movement in orbital space architecture: A narrative of weightlessness
Based upon a combination of architectural theories, the knowledge of space environment, and psychology of isolated and confined environments, this qualitative research aims to study orbital space settlement in a way to get the built space congenial to the human experience of movement. In this sense, sensors, self-propulsion or mechanical actuators, the inhabitant’s mental and visual capacity for movement, as well as the represented and imbedded m…
Preservation and conservation of Cross River Monoliths for tourism development
Heritage and conservation have gained currency in academic and professional discourses on tourism and resource preservation across the globe. Today, many developed and some developing economies regard heritage as a very significant component of tourism. Literary documents on studies conducted in Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and UK are cases in point. In southeastern Nigeria, there are numerous unique heritage sites that can be harnessed …
On Apartheid Ruins: Art, Protest and the South African Social Landscape
Recent protests against colonial racism and power at the University of Cape Town have engaged specific forms of ‘formal’ artwork found on the campus. The burning of paintings during the Shackville protests in February 2016 raised a number of fundamental questions. The shack built by protesting students and referred to as Shackville was later demolished by university authorities and security but bears potency as a creative intervention. In this ar…
Curating as World-Making - An Art on Our Mind Creative Dialogue
This creative dialogue is part of the Art on our Mind Research Project public talk series run by South African visual artist and scholar Sharlene Khan, which invites South African women-of-colour c
Mntambo, Nandipha
Examining perceptions of inclusion of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in art and design higher education in Bahrain
Despite the current endeavors by the government in Bahrain to promote inclusion of students with special educational needs, the perceptions of deaf and hard-of-hearing students’ inclusion is yet to be examined in the art or design classroom. The research involves a thematic analysis of the challenges and opportunities of inclusive education in art and design higher educational settings, and investigates the perceptions of educators, parents, and …
Sociology (24 works) · Art (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Aesthetics (13 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Visual arts (10 works) · Law (9 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works)