| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Studies in somaesthetics : embodied perspectives in philosophy, the arts and the human sciences ; volume 3 |
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Studies in somaesthetics ; v. 3.
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| Contents |
List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- African somaesthetics as provocation / Catherine F. Botha -- Part 1. Untouchable bodies. Chapter 1. The untouchable body / Gerard M. Samuel -- Chapter 2. The other as unbeautiful: analytic somaesthetics, disgust and the albinotic body in African traditions / Elvis Imafidon -- Part 2. Black bodies. Chapter 3. Black bodies, “Black Panther” / Paul C. Taylor, Sarah DiMaggio, Holly Longair, and Takunda Matose -- Chapter 4. Re-imagining race through Daai za Lady & Butoh / jackï job -- Chapter 5. Necro-being and the Black body: an interview with Leonard Harris / Catherine F. Botha -- Part 3. Dancing bodies. Chapter 6. Sensing the stage: decolonial readings of African contemporary dance / Rainy Demerson -- Chapter 7. Self-knowledge through dance: considering the female break dancer in South Africa / Devon Bailey -- Chapter 8. Learning to speak in my mother tongue: ruminating on contemporary decolonising dance practices for myself and my African continent / Lliane Loots -- Part 4. Changing bodies. Chapter 9. Walking and stumbling: the aesthetic as agitator for activism / Sara Matchett -- Chapter 10. Skinstory - migratory experiences and the transformational power of performative means of expression / Monika Lilleike -- Chapter 11. Disinfect this! Scato-aesthetic indictments of South Africa’s cultural, social, and spatial divisions / Matthias Pauwels -- Name index -- Subject index |
| Summary |
"This addresses the problematic issue of the divisions and exclusions within the sphere of art and culture in South Africa. It does so by interpreting recent activist practices of cultural contestation, with a focus on interventions in 2014 by the Tokolos Stencil Collective - an anonymous activist grouping operative in Cape Town mainly - within the art exhibition "Plakkers" and the cultural event "Open City", in which Tokolos's social, political and urban activism intersects with issues of exclusion in the artistic and cultural realm. The article first analyses the specific activist means and strategies deployed here, such as the use of human excreta, obscene language and imagery, and a highly partisan posture"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2020) |
| Subject |
Aesthetics -- Physiological aspects
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Aesthetics, African.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Aesthetics, African
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Aesthetics -- Physiological aspects
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Human body (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Botha, Catherine F., editor.
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| LC no. |
2020041299 |
| ISBN |
9004442960 |
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9789004442962 |
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