SOUTH AFRICA

1984/86 Adjit prop; an example of 'guerilla art', popularist I know but I felt the need to 'do something', it is questionable whether anything at all is achieved through this form of 'social protest', certainly within the context of the 'fine-arts' and as you will gather from the structure of this web-site; I'm still wrestling with the contradictions...

Take this link to Mzwakhe Mbuli

": we must renounce two linked, but opposite themes. The first involves a wish that it should never be possible to assign, in the order of discourse, the irruption of a real event; that beyond any apparent beginning, there is always a secret origin - so secret and so fundamental that it can never be quite grasped in itself. Thus one is led inevitably, through the naïvety of chronologies, towards an ever-receding point that is never itself present in any history; this point is merely its own void; and from that point all beginnings can never be more than recommencements or occultation (in one and the same gesture, this and that). To this theme is connected another according to which all manifest discourse is secretly based on an 'already-said'; and that this 'already said' is not merely a phrase that has already been spoken, or a text that has already been written, but a 'never-said', an incorporeal discourse, a voice as silent as a breath, a writing that is merely the hollow of its own mark."

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