Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Searching for South Africa
- Chapter 2 Nothing Must Ever be Bigger than our Dreams
- Chapter 3 A Report and Comment on Worker Organising at the University of Cape Town
- Chapter 4 Race and Resistance in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Chapter 5 ‘There is No Middle Ground!’
- Chapter 6 Masiphumelele: Making the Ordinary Endure on the Outskirts of Cape Town
- Chapter 7 Women's struggle during this democratic government
- Chapter 8 Daalah Cape Flets: Hip-hop, Resistance and Hope
- Chapter 9 Viva Revolution!
- Chapter 10 ‘Looking Back Moving Forward: Legacies of Struggle and the Challenges Facing the New Social Movements’
- Chapter 11 Fairytale violence or Sondheim on solidarity, from Karnataka to Kennedy Road
- Index
Chapter 6 - Masiphumelele: Making the Ordinary Endure on the Outskirts of Cape Town
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Searching for South Africa
- Chapter 2 Nothing Must Ever be Bigger than our Dreams
- Chapter 3 A Report and Comment on Worker Organising at the University of Cape Town
- Chapter 4 Race and Resistance in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Chapter 5 ‘There is No Middle Ground!’
- Chapter 6 Masiphumelele: Making the Ordinary Endure on the Outskirts of Cape Town
- Chapter 7 Women's struggle during this democratic government
- Chapter 8 Daalah Cape Flets: Hip-hop, Resistance and Hope
- Chapter 9 Viva Revolution!
- Chapter 10 ‘Looking Back Moving Forward: Legacies of Struggle and the Challenges Facing the New Social Movements’
- Chapter 11 Fairytale violence or Sondheim on solidarity, from Karnataka to Kennedy Road
- Index
Summary
… it would be a matter of creating a new kind of scenography in which only what explodes and decomposes is exposed … An ‘aesthetics of disappearance’, whether gradual or instantaneous; no longer an aesthetics of appearance, of the progressive emergence of a style, genre, or scientific author. Visitors would no longer file along galleries, past picture rails, since the exhibition space would itself have lost its interest, its museographic appeal, in favor of an exposure time, of a time depth comparable to that of the widest horizons, the most immense landscapes: a landscape of events that would thus replace the former exhibition hall, an architectural space disqualified on one hand by its orthogonal geometry and on the other by the requirements of an urgent screening of the phases of the accident (Virilio 2000, 59).
3 February 2003
It's 2.00pm. The sun is streaming into the Andile Nhose Community Centre, on Govan Mbeki Rd, in Mandela Park, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. The cream-coloured building stands defiantly on its dusty ground, sandwiched between residential houses on one side and a main road on the other. The gate leading into the car park of Andile Nhose is open as are the doors to the centre, both seemingly gestures of welcome, inviting people to enter. But for now everything is strangely quiet. A few people are sitting in a classroom; a small group of people are standing in the courtyard. Talking animatedly in Xhosa. Where is the meeting?
It's 2.15pm the sun is streaming in. It's hot. A person enters, looks around, moves towards a shady spot and sits down on the floor. Conversation ceases, everyone looks up. The person who has entered the Community Centre is clearly not from Mandela Park. After a while, a woman crosses the courtyard to talk to this stranger. She sits down on the floor and extends her hand in greeting. In English she introduces herself as Busi. The two exchange greetings. Busi is warm and friendly, laughter comes easy to her. This does not belie her solid air of determination and energy. In the coming months her laughter and geniality would envelope the school and all who crossed her path. But it is not the time for this … not yet.
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- Searching For South AfricaThe New Calculus of Dignity, pp. 85 - 119Publisher: University of South AfricaPrint publication year: 2011