Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2013
Trajectories of Land Conflicts in Southern Africa: Failed Decolonisation
Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza, University of Cape Town
15 November 2013, 18
15:00-19:00
Ongoing Land Inequalities in South Africa
ONGOING LAND INEQUALITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
What Role for Engaged Scholarship?
CANRAD, CIPSET and Research Capacity Development (RCD) cordially invite you to a seminar on:
Friday, 1 november 2013
08h30- 10h30
North Campus Conference Centre
VISTAS – A project by Raél Jero Salley
Vistas is a project about landscape. The project focuses on land, farm, territory and ways of seeing contemporary South Africa. The projects works with the Native’s Land Act of 1913 in mind, and is interested in land’s relationship to culture. ‘To landscape’, the active process of making space into place involves intersections between historical, aesthetic and concrete forms. Vistas looks to chart boundaries and possibilities of and for landscape. The project includes an exhibition and public discussion to be held at the Centre for African Studies Gallery at The University of Cape Town.
Opening Wednesday 18 September at 6pm
Exhibition dates
18 September – 11 October 2013
Venue
Centre for African Studies Gallery, Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building, UCT Upper Campus, Rondebosch, Cape Town
For more info
contact Meghna on 021 650 2308 or email singh.meghna@gmail.com
TO LET by The Burning Museum Arts Collective
TO LET by The Burning Museum Arts Collective
Opening Event : Thursday, 29th August, at 18h00
Exhibition : 30 August – 13 September 2013, 10h00 – 14h00 [by appointment]
Venue : Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Contact: Meghna Singh
Email : singh.meghna@gmail.com
Phone : 021 650 2308
Download : Burning Museum Map
New Dynamics of Public Engagement
How does one bring the outside into the inside? How does one bring in people to visit a gallery or museum space – more so, how does a gallery space in a university engage with people in the city besides the university staff and students?
Art has always been an important tool to express a critical attitude to the dominant forces shaping reality and it is too extensive to be represented in the limited spaces of galleries and museums. The art world is changing and it’s becoming increasingly important to question the role of the gallery and curator in relation to society.
These were some of the questions I was looking to answer when I invited The Burning Museum Art Collective to engage with the Centre for African Studies gallery space. The Burning Museum Collective is a group of young incredible artists whose work and expression stood out for me. Far more than commercial gallery exhibits, they tell their stories in different hidden spaces in parts of the city that rarely see the extension of creative expression.
Today, a gallery must draw from a framework of knowledge that’s circulating in society. By inviting this collective of young artists, I hope to incorporate the increasingly dynamic horizontal forms of knowledge production that one can witness in some of the public spaces of Cape Town.
It’s been most exciting to allow the gallery to be taken over and turned into something that it usually isn’t. By doing this I am hoping that it is seen not only as a space to represent the world but also be open to its influences and work with an awareness of the reality surrounding it.
I hope this will allow a two-way flow of audience – from the outside into the university and the university to the streets of Salt River and Woodstock to engage further with these works.
Meghna Singh
Curator, Centre for African Studies Gallery
University of Cape Town
27th August 2013
