Political-Erotical-Mystical Manifesto

In trying to come to terms with the illegitimacy of his identity as a working-class Afrikaans white man – belonging neither to Europe nor Africa – the author develops a practice through which art might help give birth to the self. These attempts in defining this self, as a person and as an artist, eventually produced a manifesto. To the author, reading Hal Foster's ‘The artist as ethnographer?’ (1995), was striking for its fear to define the self as opposed to the other. In today's political landscape, it would seem rather arrogant to speak of the self, but in this alienated, illegitimate condition, being from one where there is no self, given that the self is disallowed, offering this manifesto might be an interesting exercise. The manifesto struggles with many of the questions that Foster raises, but from the perspective of a highly charged subjectivity

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