Cobi Labuscagne
Biographic Data
| ID | 640357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cobi Labuscagne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cobi |
| FAMILY NAME | Labuscagne |
| SIGNATURE | LABUSCAGNE C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Crime, Art and Public Culture
Jane Alexander's ‘Security’ was installed at the 2009 Joburg Art Fair as a Special Project. This essay investigates notions of being guarded and fenced-in, which are implicit in this piece, in an attempt to breathe new life into a space that has all too easily been blanketed as a new form of ‘apartheid’ in contemporary South Africa. Rather, I suggest, what ‘Security’ allowed its publics to experience was a complex process of working through the e…
Representing the South African Landscape
South African artist William Kentridge's Soho Series takes place inside a representation of a Johannesburg mine-landscape. It is a post-industrial and postcolonial landscape of exploitation both of the citizens of the country and of the natural environment. This article considers how the representation of the South African landscape by Kentridge can be seen as part of a continuum of landscape representation in South Africa originating from an ini…
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Representing the South African Landscape
South African artist William Kentridge's Soho Series takes place inside a representation of a Johannesburg mine-landscape. It is a post-industrial and postcolonial landscape of exploitation both of the citizens of the country and of the natural environment. This article considers how the representation of the South African landscape by Kentridge can be seen as part of a continuum of landscape representation in South Africa originating from an ini…
Crime, Art and Public Culture
Jane Alexander's ‘Security’ was installed at the 2009 Joburg Art Fair as a Special Project. This essay investigates notions of being guarded and fenced-in, which are implicit in this piece, in an attempt to breathe new life into a space that has all too easily been blanketed as a new form of ‘apartheid’ in contemporary South Africa. Rather, I suggest, what ‘Security’ allowed its publics to experience was a complex process of working through the e…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (1 works) · Art history (1 works)