- Title
- Infecting the city: site-situational performance and ambulatory hermeneutics
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146156
- Identifier
- vital:38500
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2016.1266776
- Description
- This article proposes the term ‘site-situational’ art or performance as a meaningful shift beyond ‘site-specificity’ and as a way to develop forward-moving and relational understandings of place. While place falls prey to Western, modernist stereotypes of closed, territorial geographic systems, site-situational readings, radical forms of ‘recognition’ and ambulatory hermeneutics enable an understanding of place as a wandering signifier, a trickster figure, and an in-the-moment conversation between environments and living beings. Through an analysis of the 2009 Infecting the City performing arts festival in South Africa, the article links site-situational performance to situational understandings of identification in the context of migration and xenophobia. It connects the participatory creative resistance aspired to by the Situationists that transforms situations rather than just recognises them, to the potential mutuality that can be experienced when one recognises oneself in the face of a ‘foreigner’ as well as the potential culpability that accompanies pro-active recognition-on-the-run.
- Format
- 27 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Third Text
- Relation
- Simbao, R., 2016. Infecting the city: Site-situational performance and ambulatory hermeneutics. Third Text, 30(1-2), pp.1-26.
- Relation
- Third Text volume 30 number 1-2 1 26 December 2016 1475-5297
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Simbao, Ruth (Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa
RU Department of Fine Art
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