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oapen-20.500.12657-636432023-06-22T04:45:48Z Chapter 17 Atomized Solidarity and New Shapes of Resistance Thomas, Kylie activism, Africa, apartheid, dissent, Haroon Gunn-Salie, homophobia, neo-liberal, resistance, Section27, sexual violence, , South Africa, Tokolos Stencils Collective, visual activism, Zanele Muholi, artists, art history, injustice, social justice, inequality bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues This chapter provides a concise history of visual activism in South Africa and focuses on how contemporary artists and activists make use of visual forms to intervene in public space, to document injustice, and to express dissent. The chapter argues that visual activism is best understood as a call to those who look to move from seeing and knowing to acting. Through analyses of works by visual activists Zanele Muholi, Haroon Gunn-Salie, and the Tokolos Stencils Collective, and through engaging with a campaign created by the social justice movement Section27, the essay shows how such work draws attention to homophobia and sexual violence; impunity for crimes against humanity; and ongoing inequality in the aftermath of apartheid. The essay also considers what occurs when visual activist works are detached from collective mobilizing and circulate within the neo-liberal art economy, producing forms of atomized solidarity. 2023-06-21T11:59:39Z 2023-06-21T11:59:39Z 2023 chapter 9780367748173 9780367748203 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63643 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003159698_10.4324_9781003159698-21.pdf Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century Routledge 10.4324/9781003159698-21 10.4324/9781003159698-21 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 2df40a94-69ad-40b0-82c6-d3ba727d9d36 9780367748173 9780367748203 Routledge 15 open access
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This chapter provides a concise history of visual activism in South Africa and focuses on how contemporary artists and activists make use of visual forms to intervene in public space, to document injustice, and to express dissent. The chapter argues that visual activism is best understood as a call to those who look to move from seeing and knowing to acting. Through analyses of works by visual activists Zanele Muholi, Haroon Gunn-Salie, and the Tokolos Stencils Collective, and through engaging with a campaign created by the social justice movement Section27, the essay shows how such work draws attention to homophobia and sexual violence; impunity for crimes against humanity; and ongoing inequality in the aftermath of apartheid. The essay also considers what occurs when visual activist works are detached from collective mobilizing and circulate within the neo-liberal art economy, producing forms of atomized solidarity.
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