Leora Farber
Biographic Data
| ID | 182736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leora Farber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leora |
| FAMILY NAME | Farber |
| SIGNATURE | FARBER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dark Play: The Ethnographic Archive as Site of Embodiment in Zanele Muholi’s Somnyana Ngonyama Series
In this article, I explore the affective responses that Zanele Muholi’s Somnyana Ngonyama series of photographic (self‐)portraits evoke for me as a white, South African woman. In this provocative series, Muholi presents a body of images that form an archive in and of itself, and uses her body as an “archive of personal experience.” In so doing, she creates a “new” archival body through the figuration of her own body. This new archival form offers…
Ecologies of Care: Speculative Photographies, Curatorial Re-Positionings
Parodying the Hysteric as a Form of Empowerment in Mary Sibande’s Exhibition The Purple Shall Govern
In a discussion of selected works by Mary Sibande, the author explores how the artist visually locates a persona, “Sophie Ntombikayise,” she has created within the realm of theatrical fantasy through use of exaggerated poses, dramatic gestures, and extravagant dress. Sibande’s theatrical quotations of the language of dress and use of dramatic poses may be related to photographic representations of the Victorian female hysteric in various stages o…
Asserting Creative Agencies through the Sartorial: (Re)Fashioning African and African Diasporic Masculinities
(2017). Asserting Creative Agencies through the Sartorial: (Re)Fashioning African and African Diasporic Masculinities. Critical Arts: Vol. 31, (Re)Fashioning African and African Diasporic Masculinities, pp. 1-17
Beyond the Ethnographic Turn: Refiguring the Archive in Selected Works by Zanele Muholi
Twenty-one years after Hal Foster identified what he terms the "ethnographic turn in contemporary art", it may be argued that art which has similarities with ethnography in its focus on representation of cultural difference and issues of sociopolitical change has become accepted practice in the global art arena. Looking at artists who work within the framework of institutional critique, and considering their practice exclusively within museum spa…
Archival addresses: Photographies, practices, positionalities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLeora FarberVisual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg
Africanising hybridity? Toward an Afropolitan aesthetic in contemporary South African fashion design
Setting out from the assumption that South African fashion designers and their garments are noteworthy, yet underexplored, agents of socio-cultural change in post-1994 South Africa, this article will show that despite being untapped, the field of fashion and its propagators is firmly interwoven into the social and economic fabric of post-apartheid South Africa. It seems to be the case that South African fashion design is beginning to contribute t…
The address of the other: The body and the senses in contemporary South African visual art
Frames What can be said to, about, and with the categories of self and other in relation to visual art that has not already been said? Given the discursive contexts in which the explorations of and debates about the status of the self and other must be undertaken, where can these go? Because of the vast context of identity politics and politics concerning the construction and representation of selfhood and otherness, found in fields ranging from …
Skin Aesthetics
Dis-Location/re-Location: Aloerosa
This paper explores ways in which difference is grafted into/onto skin, with reference to a selected series of photographic prints. These prints form part of a larger body of artwork and an educational program and research project, titled Dis-location/Re-location. The project investigates personalized postcolonial identity through reference to colonialism, geographies, histories, political positions, and cultural affiliations. Artwork is used as …
Embodying the Other as Self in Johan Thom's exhibition Exorcismseries
The address of the other: The body and the senses in contemporary South African visual art
Frames What can be said to, about, and with the categories of self and other in relation to visual art that has not already been said? Given the discursive contexts in which the explorations of and debates about the status of the self and other must be undertaken, where can these go? Because of the vast context of identity politics and politics concerning the construction and representation of selfhood and otherness, found in fields ranging from …
Africanising hybridity? Toward an Afropolitan aesthetic in contemporary South African fashion design
Setting out from the assumption that South African fashion designers and their garments are noteworthy, yet underexplored, agents of socio-cultural change in post-1994 South Africa, this article will show that despite being untapped, the field of fashion and its propagators is firmly interwoven into the social and economic fabric of post-apartheid South Africa. It seems to be the case that South African fashion design is beginning to contribute t…
Beyond the Ethnographic Turn: Refiguring the Archive in Selected Works by Zanele Muholi
Twenty-one years after Hal Foster identified what he terms the "ethnographic turn in contemporary art", it may be argued that art which has similarities with ethnography in its focus on representation of cultural difference and issues of sociopolitical change has become accepted practice in the global art arena. Looking at artists who work within the framework of institutional critique, and considering their practice exclusively within museum spa…
Archival addresses: Photographies, practices, positionalities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLeora FarberVisual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg
Skin Aesthetics
Dis-Location/re-Location: Aloerosa
This paper explores ways in which difference is grafted into/onto skin, with reference to a selected series of photographic prints. These prints form part of a larger body of artwork and an educational program and research project, titled Dis-location/Re-location. The project investigates personalized postcolonial identity through reference to colonialism, geographies, histories, political positions, and cultural affiliations. Artwork is used as …
Embodying the Other as Self in Johan Thom's exhibition Exorcismseries
Dis-Location/re-Location: Aloerosa
This paper explores ways in which difference is grafted into/onto skin, with reference to a selected series of photographic prints. These prints form part of a larger body of artwork and an educational program and research project, titled Dis-location/Re-location. The project investigates personalized postcolonial identity through reference to colonialism, geographies, histories, political positions, and cultural affiliations. Artwork is used as …
Skin Aesthetics
Africanising hybridity? Toward an Afropolitan aesthetic in contemporary South African fashion design
Setting out from the assumption that South African fashion designers and their garments are noteworthy, yet underexplored, agents of socio-cultural change in post-1994 South Africa, this article will show that despite being untapped, the field of fashion and its propagators is firmly interwoven into the social and economic fabric of post-apartheid South Africa. It seems to be the case that South African fashion design is beginning to contribute t…
The address of the other: The body and the senses in contemporary South African visual art
Frames What can be said to, about, and with the categories of self and other in relation to visual art that has not already been said? Given the discursive contexts in which the explorations of and debates about the status of the self and other must be undertaken, where can these go? Because of the vast context of identity politics and politics concerning the construction and representation of selfhood and otherness, found in fields ranging from …
Archival addresses: Photographies, practices, positionalities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLeora FarberVisual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg
Parodying the Hysteric as a Form of Empowerment in Mary Sibande’s Exhibition The Purple Shall Govern
In a discussion of selected works by Mary Sibande, the author explores how the artist visually locates a persona, “Sophie Ntombikayise,” she has created within the realm of theatrical fantasy through use of exaggerated poses, dramatic gestures, and extravagant dress. Sibande’s theatrical quotations of the language of dress and use of dramatic poses may be related to photographic representations of the Victorian female hysteric in various stages o…
Asserting Creative Agencies through the Sartorial: (Re)Fashioning African and African Diasporic Masculinities
(2017). Asserting Creative Agencies through the Sartorial: (Re)Fashioning African and African Diasporic Masculinities. Critical Arts: Vol. 31, (Re)Fashioning African and African Diasporic Masculinities, pp. 1-17
Beyond the Ethnographic Turn: Refiguring the Archive in Selected Works by Zanele Muholi
Twenty-one years after Hal Foster identified what he terms the "ethnographic turn in contemporary art", it may be argued that art which has similarities with ethnography in its focus on representation of cultural difference and issues of sociopolitical change has become accepted practice in the global art arena. Looking at artists who work within the framework of institutional critique, and considering their practice exclusively within museum spa…
Ecologies of Care: Speculative Photographies, Curatorial Re-Positionings
Dark Play: The Ethnographic Archive as Site of Embodiment in Zanele Muholi’s Somnyana Ngonyama Series
In this article, I explore the affective responses that Zanele Muholi’s Somnyana Ngonyama series of photographic (self‐)portraits evoke for me as a white, South African woman. In this provocative series, Muholi presents a body of images that form an archive in and of itself, and uses her body as an “archive of personal experience.” In so doing, she creates a “new” archival body through the figuration of her own body. This new archival form offers…
Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works)