Stacey Vorster
Biographic Data
| ID | 5878832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacey Vorster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacey |
| FAMILY NAME | Vorster |
| SIGNATURE | VORSTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8214-3248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Recognition, Encounter, and Estrangement, in the Work of Zhou Song
Caring for the Past
In 1998, in response to the excavations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Judith Mason exhibited a series of artworks, many of which were dedicated to Phila Ndwandwe, who was executed by the security police during the apartheid era. One prominent work from Mason’s 1998 exhibition is now held in the Constitutional Court Art Collection. Colloquially termed the “Blue Dress”, the work comprises two paintings and an actual blue dress, …
Storytelling and fraught histories
Twenty years after the final hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, researchers are unearthing and examining the stories, discourses and processes that formed the transition from the apartheid to post-apartheid periods. In this paper, I investigate the story of Phila Ndwandwe, killed by the security police in the late 1980s, whose body was the first to be exhumed by the commission. Ndwandwe’s story has been framed th…
Telematic art across the North–South divide
Telematic artworks are often included in the theoretical framework of relational aesthetics for the ways in which they engender active dialogue and exchange. This study is situated within a critique of the claim that relational art is widely accessible in terms of its formal structure and is thus ‘more or less democratic’ (McIntyre 2007: 35). This argument fails to recognise the political aspect of communication. Particularly because telematic ar…
Picturing Change
The focused study of visual culture in educational institutions is relatively uncommon. However, Schmahmann’s analysis of image-related practices in postapartheid universities clearly illustrates t
Inner-city safaris and wild public art
As Ivan Vladislavić observes in his 2006 novel Portrait with keys, Johannesburg's public art has an abundance of animal iconography on which he relies to create an evocative and sensitive metaphor between the poaching of actual animals and the trend in Johannesburg to steal parts of public sculptures for scrap metal. Using this as a starting point, this article explores three examples of contemporary public art in Johannesburg and investigates to…
Gestures of defamiliarization
One of the problems with teaching African photography in an urban Johannesburg-based classroom is the tendency to teach the histories and practices of photography in Africa as if they were somehow separate from us. This separation or disjunction is partly because, as Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe point out in their book Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis (2008): ‘until very recently, Johannesburg described itself as the largest and most mode…
Storytelling and fraught histories
Twenty years after the final hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, researchers are unearthing and examining the stories, discourses and processes that formed the transition from the apartheid to post-apartheid periods. In this paper, I investigate the story of Phila Ndwandwe, killed by the security police in the late 1980s, whose body was the first to be exhumed by the commission. Ndwandwe’s story has been framed th…
Caring for the Past
In 1998, in response to the excavations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Judith Mason exhibited a series of artworks, many of which were dedicated to Phila Ndwandwe, who was executed by the security police during the apartheid era. One prominent work from Mason’s 1998 exhibition is now held in the Constitutional Court Art Collection. Colloquially termed the “Blue Dress”, the work comprises two paintings and an actual blue dress, …
Gestures of defamiliarization
One of the problems with teaching African photography in an urban Johannesburg-based classroom is the tendency to teach the histories and practices of photography in Africa as if they were somehow separate from us. This separation or disjunction is partly because, as Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe point out in their book Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis (2008): ‘until very recently, Johannesburg described itself as the largest and most mode…
Picturing Change
The focused study of visual culture in educational institutions is relatively uncommon. However, Schmahmann’s analysis of image-related practices in postapartheid universities clearly illustrates t
Inner-city safaris and wild public art
As Ivan Vladislavić observes in his 2006 novel Portrait with keys, Johannesburg's public art has an abundance of animal iconography on which he relies to create an evocative and sensitive metaphor between the poaching of actual animals and the trend in Johannesburg to steal parts of public sculptures for scrap metal. Using this as a starting point, this article explores three examples of contemporary public art in Johannesburg and investigates to…
Telematic art across the North–South divide
Telematic artworks are often included in the theoretical framework of relational aesthetics for the ways in which they engender active dialogue and exchange. This study is situated within a critique of the claim that relational art is widely accessible in terms of its formal structure and is thus ‘more or less democratic’ (McIntyre 2007: 35). This argument fails to recognise the political aspect of communication. Particularly because telematic ar…
Storytelling and fraught histories
Twenty years after the final hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, researchers are unearthing and examining the stories, discourses and processes that formed the transition from the apartheid to post-apartheid periods. In this paper, I investigate the story of Phila Ndwandwe, killed by the security police in the late 1980s, whose body was the first to be exhumed by the commission. Ndwandwe’s story has been framed th…
Caring for the Past
In 1998, in response to the excavations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Judith Mason exhibited a series of artworks, many of which were dedicated to Phila Ndwandwe, who was executed by the security police during the apartheid era. One prominent work from Mason’s 1998 exhibition is now held in the Constitutional Court Art Collection. Colloquially termed the “Blue Dress”, the work comprises two paintings and an actual blue dress, …
Recognition, Encounter, and Estrangement, in the Work of Zhou Song
Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · History (3 works)