‘This land is not for sale’: Post-1994 resistance art and interventionism in Cape Town’s precarious publics

dc.contributor.authorMakhubu, Nomusa
dc.contributor.authorRuiters, Greg
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-21T10:02:11Z
dc.date.available2022-02-21T10:02:11Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe control, regulation and commodification of space has been fundamental in reinforcing structural racism and social identities. In a city such as Cape Town, where colonial architecture and heritage as well as apartheid racial zoning forms part of the spectacularisation of the city, racial conflict seems to have deepened. Through dis- cussing public protest, artistic public interventions and live art, we argue that young black artists in South Africa are heralding a new phase of post-1994 resistance art which exposes conflictual cultural politics of public space in Cape Town rather than a healing democracy and multi-culturalism. As protesters and activists, artists deface the myth of a reconciled non-racial post-Apartheid society by targeting officially sanctioned art. Drawing from Faranak Miraftab’s notion of ‘invited’ and ‘invented’ spaces as well as Chris Dixon and Angela Davis’ concept of prefigurative politics, we argue that precarious South African publics are experienced as a ‘battleground’ rather than a space for liberal deliberation and democracy. New resistance art, therefore, tends to be protest-centred in engaging with the conflictual nature of the city.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMakhubu, N., & Ruiters, G. (2021). ‘This land is not for sale’: Post-1994 resistance art and interventionism in Cape Town’s precarious publics. City, Culture and Society, 23,100368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2020.100368en_US
dc.identifier.issn1877-9166
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2020.100368
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7286
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.subjectPublic arten_US
dc.subjectResistance arten_US
dc.subjectProtesten_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectCape Townen_US
dc.title‘This land is not for sale’: Post-1994 resistance art and interventionism in Cape Town’s precarious publicsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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