June 23, 2025

Diana Vives and The Sky Beneath at the Iyatsiba Lab

The CHR was delighted to receive The Sky Beneath (2022) by artist and sculptor, Diana Vives, at the Iyatsiba Lab in June 2025. The Sky Beneath was originally exhibited at Everard Read in Cape Town, and is now mounted in the reception area of the Iyatsiba Lab. The title of this partially submerged sphere refers to the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander, who in the 6th century BCE radically questioned prevailing worldviews, embracing uncertainty as a path to knowledge
March 27, 2025

‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu.

Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.