The Foster Gang forms part of a visual art research project centred on the historical stratification and hybridity of a post-colonial landscape known as the Cradle of Humankind. The project includes drawings, paintings, sculptures and photography relating to en-situ research at Swartkrans, Cooper’s, and Plovers Lake (three of the Cradle of Humankind sites) under the initial guidance of [...] Read more – ‘Cradle Snatcher’.
Excerpt: I Feel Therefore I Think Goliath Extending trauma studies into new territory, Jill Bennett proposes a philosophically informed way of engaging politically with traumatic feeling in visual art. She does not present a new philosophical theory of affect, but her mapping of observations from trauma studies onto Gilles Deleuze’s perspectives on art and thought [...] Read more – ‘‘Forces Favourites’ – part of « Deep Skin »’.
