Sharlene Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharlene Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharlene |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4192-7465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In Memoriam/Memento Mori
This article opens with a narration of the 2008 killing of South African visual artist Gabisile Nkosi by her ex-boyfriend in her home, and asks whether part of the horror of the story is the mere violation of her “safe space” or the narration itself that allows the audience to register the proximity factor that it could have been “me too.” From this instance of a colleague being killed, the author, through a creative performance of telling and re…
‘Yo Dumbfucks!’
Since the early 1990s, blackface has seen a resurgence in South Africa. In 2010, Pappa in Afrika, the artwork of White Afrikaner artist Anton Kannemeyer elicited public criticism. Interrogating Kannemeyer’s Pappa in Afrika, this paper questions assumptions of blackface’s parodic satire as inherently critical and transgressive, examining whether blackface can possibly be read as a “trickster” figure in its current usage. In analysing Kannemeyer’s …
DisOrientations
This article examines the artwork series Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy (2011–2016) by South African Indian film studies scholar Jordache A. Ellapen. Ellapen's work stages intimate photographic portrayals of queer bodies-of-colour, overlaid on family album photographs and Indenture and apartheid documents categorising bodies, along with images of objects and landscapes. This visual cartography speaks of bodies at the intersection o…
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
Thinking Through, Talking Back
The panel “Thinking Through, Talking Back: Creative Theorisation as Site of Praxis-Theory”, held at the African Feminisms Colloquium at Rhodes University in July 2017, converses on the role of the imagination and creativities in black-African feminisms. Imagination is seen as underlying the important work of identifying everyday lived experiences as sites of knowledge production that has been central to black-African feminisms’ creative theorisat…
After Indenture
A photographic portfolio published as a special section “Art After Indenture,” in which five scholars characterize and respond to eight contemporary visual artists who are descendants of indentured workers. The author Andil Gosine as guest editor also raises questions about the commemoration of indentureship and calls for greater contention with its traumatic legacy.\n\nAbstract and introduction to photo stories:\n\nFace Up: Life and transgressiv…
Thinking Through, Talking Back
The panel “Thinking Through, Talking Back: Creative Theorisation as Site of Praxis-Theory”, held at the African Feminisms Colloquium at Rhodes University in July 2017, converses on the role of the imagination and creativities in black-African feminisms. Imagination is seen as underlying the important work of identifying everyday lived experiences as sites of knowledge production that has been central to black-African feminisms’ creative theorisat…
After Indenture
A photographic portfolio published as a special section “Art After Indenture,” in which five scholars characterize and respond to eight contemporary visual artists who are descendants of indentured workers. The author Andil Gosine as guest editor also raises questions about the commemoration of indentureship and calls for greater contention with its traumatic legacy.\n\nAbstract and introduction to photo stories:\n\nFace Up: Life and transgressiv…
Thinking Through, Talking Back
The panel “Thinking Through, Talking Back: Creative Theorisation as Site of Praxis-Theory”, held at the African Feminisms Colloquium at Rhodes University in July 2017, converses on the role of the imagination and creativities in black-African feminisms. Imagination is seen as underlying the important work of identifying everyday lived experiences as sites of knowledge production that has been central to black-African feminisms’ creative theorisat…
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
‘Yo Dumbfucks!’
Since the early 1990s, blackface has seen a resurgence in South Africa. In 2010, Pappa in Afrika, the artwork of White Afrikaner artist Anton Kannemeyer elicited public criticism. Interrogating Kannemeyer’s Pappa in Afrika, this paper questions assumptions of blackface’s parodic satire as inherently critical and transgressive, examining whether blackface can possibly be read as a “trickster” figure in its current usage. In analysing Kannemeyer’s …
DisOrientations
This article examines the artwork series Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy (2011–2016) by South African Indian film studies scholar Jordache A. Ellapen. Ellapen's work stages intimate photographic portrayals of queer bodies-of-colour, overlaid on family album photographs and Indenture and apartheid documents categorising bodies, along with images of objects and landscapes. This visual cartography speaks of bodies at the intersection o…
In Memoriam/Memento Mori
This article opens with a narration of the 2008 killing of South African visual artist Gabisile Nkosi by her ex-boyfriend in her home, and asks whether part of the horror of the story is the mere violation of her “safe space” or the narration itself that allows the audience to register the proximity factor that it could have been “me too.” From this instance of a colleague being killed, the author, through a creative performance of telling and re…
Art (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · African art (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work)