Gender, 'Race', Ethnicity in Art Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Annie E. Coombes and Penny Siopis in Conversation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annie E Coombes (Cultural Studies and Art History at Birkbeck College, University of London., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 110-129 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.1997.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2057968260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Siopis has always engaged in a critical and controversial way with the concepts of 'race' and 'ethnicity' in South Africa. For politically sensitive artists whose work has involved confronting the injustices of apartheid, the current post-apartheid situation has forced a reassessment of their practice and the terms on which they might engage with the fundamental changes which are now affecting all of South African society. Where mythologies of race and ethnicity have been strategically foregrounded in the art of any engaged artist, to the exclusion of many other concerns, the demise of apartheid offers the possibility of exploring other dimensions of lived experience in South Africa. For feminists, this is potentially a very positive moment when questions of gender - so long subordinated to the structural issue of 'race' under apartheid - can now be explored. Penny Siopis' work has long been concerned with the lived and historical relations between black and white women in South Africa. The discussion focuses on the ambivalent and dependent relationships formed between white middle-class women and black domestic labour during apartheid. Siopis' work engages with how the appropriation of black women's time, lives, labour and bodies has shaped her 'own' history
Ambivalence · Appropriation · Cultural appropriation · Demise · Ethnic group · Mythology · Political science · Race (biology) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Yoruba · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |