Everything that was made was not destroyed…
CHR Artist in Residence Juan Orrantia will present his ongoing artistic work “Everything that was made was not destroyed, but also does not exist” at the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar on 14 September 2021.
Description
“Everything that was made was not destroyed, but also does not exist” engages colonial images and their structures. It utilizes various forms of reinscribing the postcolonial into archival structures. Combing strategies of concealment, replacement, opacity and association, Orrantia creates juxtapositions of images and mixed media to speculate on presences like the white male gaze, the patriarchy of colonial militarization or the many lingering colonial desires inscribed in the landscapes and bodies presented. Presences that live not just in the (colonial) image, but also in the politics of surveillance and control of how we see the past. The work also includes a short text composed of fragments.
Discussant: Anna Selmeczi (African Centre for Cities, UCT)
Chair: Ross Truscott (Centre for Humanities Research)
This event is co-hosted by the Department of History and the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC.
The seminar will take place via Zoom from 14:00 – 15:30 (South Africa) on 14 September 2021.
This is seminar 551 of the series.
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