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Seminar – WILLIAM KENTRIDGE – Boundaries, space, time, identity and relation
Date: 21 February 2024
Time: 15:00 – 17:00 SAST
Venue: Centre for Humanities Research, Iyatsiba Lab, Greatmore Street, Woodstock
Please rsvp to asimons@uwc.ac.za by Monday, 19 February
Speaker:
Prof Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is well known for his biography of Bram Fischer. He has also published on Nadine Gordimer and most recently a memoir, Birthmark. Recent work explores issues of boundaries, identity, hospitality, and dwelling.
South African artist William Kentridge is internationally renowned for his work that includes drawings, sculptures and films, as well as operatic productions. His art engages with and responds to apartheid, colonialism and their aftermath. In various ways his politics and philosophy are embedded in the very forms of his art.
In the catalogue for the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition Clingman reflects with his usual sharp sense of observation and generosity of spirit. ‘How to put it together? What does it mean at any given moment in Kentridge’s work, and collectively in time? These are questions to absorb us, but that can only be addressed indirectly. We have to walk around them’.