Walking The Other Side: Doung Anwar Jahangeer

Simbao, Ruth K

Title: Walking The Other Side: Doung Anwar Jahangeer
Creator: Simbao, Ruth K
Date Issued: 2013
Date: 2013
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147681
Identifier: vital:38660
Identifier: https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/09528822.2013.796204
Description: While certain forms of mobility are romanticized in the privileged worlds of art and academia, the need to move is often triggered by vulnerability, and literal pathways on the ground reveal much about human engagement with place. This article considers the work of Mauritian-born architect/artist/performer Doung Anwar Jahangeer who is based in Durban, South Africa. Inspired by Michel de Certeau, Jahangeer argues that pathways reveal the characteristics of society and uses the act of walking to question the degree to which meaningful transformation has taken place in South Africa. His City Walk performances disclose to audiences how grounded ways of engaging with movement can challenge the metaphoric blindness that handicaps privileged movement. Focusing on his performances from the 2012 ‘Making Way’ exhibition the author interprets Jahangeer's work as challenging blind spots with regard to space, particularly partial spaces still marred by Apartheid. Through performative walking he encourages his audiences to read between the lines of road markings, cracks and signs, and to experience the power of corporeally engaging with the road by thoughtfully placing one foot in front of the other as a mode of seeing.
Format: 8 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Third Text
Relation: Simbao, R., 2013. Walking The Other Side: Doung Anwar Jahangeer. Third Text, 27(3), pp.407-414
Relation: Third Text volume 27 number 3 407 414 June 2013 1475-5297
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