Mlondolozi Zondi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4190186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mlondolozi Zondi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mlondolozi |
| FAMILY NAME | Zondi |
| SIGNATURE | ZONDI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Black Avant-Garde’s Ruinous Ground
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 184 pp. $99.95. Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s second monograph, Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic
Making a seen
Echoes in the Bone
If it is true that performance remains, what do we make of these remains when subsumed into the house of culture such as the museum? Beyond reiterating the storied debates about the ontology of performance as (either) disappearing and/or remaining, I maintain, through a reading of Nelisiwe Xaba’s dance work entitled Sakhozi Says “Non” to the Venus (2010)that the machinations of antiblack capitalism co-opt all sides of the debate. In this case, an…
Culture’s photodermic enjoyment
The aesthetic depiction of the Black corpse raises questions about scopic pleasure, empathy, and the futility of evidence. This essay engages aesthetic speculation about intended justice through Paul Stopforth's Elegy (1981) and the Biko Series (1980), drawings of Steve Biko's corpse that are all oriented toward a counter-evidentiary logic whose aim is to disprove the evidence provided by the apartheid police. I posit that this investment in evid…
An Impossible Form”
Venus and the (R)uses of Power
A number of contemporary art/performance pieces invoke “the Venus Hottentot.” Nelisiwe Xaba’s They Look at Me and That’s All They Think demonstrates how the contemporary reproduction of “the Venus” requires the Black performer to labor for white narcissistic identification and psychic rehabilitation. By focusing on Black transnational labor and mobility, They Look at Me highlights how anti-Black domination is simultaneously resisted and reinforce…
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Venus and the (R)uses of Power
A number of contemporary art/performance pieces invoke “the Venus Hottentot.” Nelisiwe Xaba’s They Look at Me and That’s All They Think demonstrates how the contemporary reproduction of “the Venus” requires the Black performer to labor for white narcissistic identification and psychic rehabilitation. By focusing on Black transnational labor and mobility, They Look at Me highlights how anti-Black domination is simultaneously resisted and reinforce…
Echoes in the Bone
If it is true that performance remains, what do we make of these remains when subsumed into the house of culture such as the museum? Beyond reiterating the storied debates about the ontology of performance as (either) disappearing and/or remaining, I maintain, through a reading of Nelisiwe Xaba’s dance work entitled Sakhozi Says “Non” to the Venus (2010)that the machinations of antiblack capitalism co-opt all sides of the debate. In this case, an…
Culture’s photodermic enjoyment
The aesthetic depiction of the Black corpse raises questions about scopic pleasure, empathy, and the futility of evidence. This essay engages aesthetic speculation about intended justice through Paul Stopforth's Elegy (1981) and the Biko Series (1980), drawings of Steve Biko's corpse that are all oriented toward a counter-evidentiary logic whose aim is to disprove the evidence provided by the apartheid police. I posit that this investment in evid…
An Impossible Form”
Making a seen
The Black Avant-Garde’s Ruinous Ground
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 184 pp. $99.95. Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s second monograph, Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works)