chr 500-0bchr 500-0bchr 500-0bchr 500-0b
  • Home
  • About
    • DSI-NRF Flagship
    • Partnerships
    • Funders
    • Staff
    • Reports
  • Research Platforms
    • Areas of Focus
      • Aesthetic Education and the Becoming Technical of the Human
      • Migrating Violence
      • Political Theory and Philosophy
      • Visual History and Theory
      • Kinetic Objects
      • Communicating the Humanities
    • NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory
      • Postgraduate bursaries and postdoctoral fellowships in Visual History & Theory
      • Postgraduate Module In Visual History, 2023 (HIS 735/835)
    • Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance
    • Factory of the Arts
      • About the Factory of the Arts
      • Convening the Factory of the Arts
      • Artists in Residence
    • Laboratory of Kinetic Objects
    • Other Universals
    • Seminar Programme
    • Publications
  • Greatmore
  • Fellowship Programme
    • Fellows
    • Winter School
    • Visiting Scholars
  • Media
    • Video
    • Podcast
    • Galleries
    • Film
  • Events
    • Workshops
    • Conferences
    • Lectures
    • Special Meetings
    • Colloquia
    • Seminars
    • Exhibitions
    • Arts Events
  • News
  • Contact
✕

Exhibition Launch: USAKOS: Photographs beyond Ruins

The Centre for Humanities Research and the Library invite you to the launch of an exhibition that  vividly evokes questions related to Sociology, Economics, History, Geography, Politics, Curation and Library Science amongst others.

Usakos, a railway town in Namibia, developed as one of the main hubs of first the German colonial and later the South African railway system, and its urban morphology was marked, from its early beginnings, by the policies of segregation and apartheid urban planning.

USAKOS poster

USAKOS poster

The exhibition is designed around three private photographic collections kept by four women, Cecilie Geises, Wilhelmine Katjimune, Gisela Pieters and Olga Garoes, in a central Namibian town called Usakos. Usakos is marked, today, by economic stagnation and many social challenges. The town’s history is linked to the development of the South African railway system in Namibia, which brought remarkable prosperity to Usakos in the 1940s and 1950s, but caused a major socio-economic decline in the early 1960s. At this stage, the inhabitants of Usakos were subjected to forced removals based on racial segregation and apartheid urban planning and relocated on the town’s outskirts.

Most of the photographs were taken by local residents or itinerant African photographers and document the old location’s social history.  Contemporary photographs by Paul Grendon (Artist in Residence, CHR) also form part of the exhibition.

 

 

Please join us on

Time:   13:00 – 14:00

Date:   Wednesday 10 August

Venue: Library Atrium

Speakers:  Tina Smith (District Six Museum) and Omar Badsha (South African History Online)

Share
0

Recent News

Images: Nafasi Academy. Credit: Kim Gurney

September 21, 2023

Publication announcement: Dr Kim Gurney, ‘Epistemic Disobedience’.


Read more
September 20, 2023

Award Announcement: Aja Marneweck, “Best Faculty Academic Impact: Creative Arts Output Award 2022.”


Read more
September 7, 2023

Oscillations Workshop: Sonic Inquiries and Practices


Read more
September 7, 2023

Itumeleng Wa Lehulere Standing Stage Left at South African Theatres


Read more

Research Platforms

  • NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory
  • Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance
  • Factory of the Arts
  • Laboratory of Kinetic Objects
  • Seminar Programme
  • Publications

Recently Added

  • Publication announcement: Dr Kim Gurney, ‘Epistemic Disobedience’.
    September 21, 2023
  • Award Announcement: Aja Marneweck, “Best Faculty Academic Impact: Creative Arts Output Award 2022.”
    September 20, 2023
  • Oscillations Workshop: Sonic Inquiries and Practices
    September 7, 2023
✕

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER


Stay up to date with the latest news and developments from the Centre for Humanities Research.



© 2017 The Centre for Humanities Research. All Rights Reserved. Designed By Spotkolours Design