Landi Raubenheimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5226856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Landi Raubenheimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Landi |
| FAMILY NAME | Raubenheimer |
| SIGNATURE | RAUBENHEIMER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3081-9151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speaking Back to the Landscape Canon: Cultural Translation in Phumulani Ntuli’s Cloud Migration and the Liewe Land! Exhibition
In this article I argue that contemporary artists in post-and decolonial contexts are adopting deliberate approaches to respond to and revise canonical art, in what I interpret as acts of cultural translation. Seeing representational practices through this linguistic lens, with concomitant grammars and vocabularies, sheds light on how established conventions may now be challenged through translation—filtering and transforming them. I am particula…
Nostalgic Dystopia: Johannesburg as Landscape after White Writing
In 1988 J.M. Coetzee published White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa, formulating landscape as inherently entangled with problematic notions of white identity and belonging. Coetzee posits that white descendants of the Dutch and English colonists failed to find an appropriate “language” to represent the country’s landscape because they failed to establish an African identity. This crisis seems topical again with debates around …
Secret/Wish , the problem of the object in relational aesthetics
Nicholas Bourriaud's (2002) relational aesthetics interprets art as social or political in nature, underemphasising aesthetic concerns such as the creation of objects as artworks. This article aims to problematise the relational model from a material point of view, based on a ‘new aesthetics’ which Jacques Rancière discusses as a mode of art-making which he titles ‘inventory’. In order to do so, the article addresses a spectator-orientated artwor…
Mine
Water, the [delicate] thread of life
The Wishing Wall: Authorship and the question of artistic autonomy in spectator-orientated artwork
The Wishing Wall is a spectator-orientated artwork that was staged by Landi Raubenheimer and Paul Cooper in February 2010, as part of the ‘Infecting the City’ performance art festival. The purpose of this article is to investigate the artwork in terms of authorship. The artwork consisted of an installation in Adderley Street in Cape Town, and as a public artwork involved spectators as voluntary participants in its creation. The question of author…
The Wishing Wall: Authorship and the question of artistic autonomy in spectator-orientated artwork
The Wishing Wall is a spectator-orientated artwork that was staged by Landi Raubenheimer and Paul Cooper in February 2010, as part of the ‘Infecting the City’ performance art festival. The purpose of this article is to investigate the artwork in terms of authorship. The artwork consisted of an installation in Adderley Street in Cape Town, and as a public artwork involved spectators as voluntary participants in its creation. The question of author…
The Wishing Wall: Authorship and the question of artistic autonomy in spectator-orientated artwork
The Wishing Wall is a spectator-orientated artwork that was staged by Landi Raubenheimer and Paul Cooper in February 2010, as part of the ‘Infecting the City’ performance art festival. The purpose of this article is to investigate the artwork in terms of authorship. The artwork consisted of an installation in Adderley Street in Cape Town, and as a public artwork involved spectators as voluntary participants in its creation. The question of author…
Mine
Water, the [delicate] thread of life
Secret/Wish , the problem of the object in relational aesthetics
Nicholas Bourriaud's (2002) relational aesthetics interprets art as social or political in nature, underemphasising aesthetic concerns such as the creation of objects as artworks. This article aims to problematise the relational model from a material point of view, based on a ‘new aesthetics’ which Jacques Rancière discusses as a mode of art-making which he titles ‘inventory’. In order to do so, the article addresses a spectator-orientated artwor…
Nostalgic Dystopia: Johannesburg as Landscape after White Writing
In 1988 J.M. Coetzee published White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa, formulating landscape as inherently entangled with problematic notions of white identity and belonging. Coetzee posits that white descendants of the Dutch and English colonists failed to find an appropriate “language” to represent the country’s landscape because they failed to establish an African identity. This crisis seems topical again with debates around …
Speaking Back to the Landscape Canon: Cultural Translation in Phumulani Ntuli’s Cloud Migration and the Liewe Land! Exhibition
In this article I argue that contemporary artists in post-and decolonial contexts are adopting deliberate approaches to respond to and revise canonical art, in what I interpret as acts of cultural translation. Seeing representational practices through this linguistic lens, with concomitant grammars and vocabularies, sheds light on how established conventions may now be challenged through translation—filtering and transforming them. I am particula…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)