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Re-locating memories: transnational and local narratives of Indian South Africans in Cape Town
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
This article plays on the word re-location to examine the memories of Indians in South Africa through oral histories about relocation as a result of the Group Areas Act, to memories of parents and grandparents relocating ...
Mapping Bodies
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The images in the visual essay that follows this text are drawn from a set of partnered art events, the Museum of Truth and Reconciliation and Double Portrait/Haunting Objects. The latter took place at the University of ...
Feminist activist archives: Towards a living history of the Gender Education Training Network (GETNET)
(UNISA Press, 2018)
This article engages the dilemmas and challenges of writing histories of the recent past, and of the political agendas of intervening in those histories in the present. This is done through producing an archive of documentation ...
Missing and missed: Rehumanisation, the nation and missing-ness
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The bringing together of two lines of research that have previously been treated separately – namely the missing/missed body of apartheid-era atrocities and the racialised body of the colonial museum – animates this issue ...
Eastern Cape Bloodlines I: Assembling the Human
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
This is an article less about red as installation, colour or symbol, and more
about assembly.1 I have used Red, the installation by Simon Gush, as provocation
to think of exhumation, its work and processes of ...
Bureaucratically missing: Capital punishment, exhumations, and the afterlives of state documents and photographs
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
For their families, the bodies of many of those hanged by the apartheid state remain missing and missed. Judicial executions, and the corpses they produced, were hidden from the scrutiny of the public and the press. While ...
Red assembly: The work remains
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The work that emerged from the encounter with Red, an art installation by Simon
Gush and his collaborators, in the workshop ‘Red Assembly’, held in East London in
August 2015, is assembled here in Kronos, the journal of ...
‘The voices of the people involved’: Red, representation and histories of labour
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The installation artwork Red by Simon Gush (with his collaborators James Cairns and Mokotjo Mohulo) evokes two senses of representation. One is of symbolism, meaning, visual strategies, juxtapositions, silences and so on. ...
Betwixt the oceans: The Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins (1905–1915)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Drawing on the personal and official papers of an immigration officer, this article highlights his personality, social life, and the quotidian aspects of his work at the port. By placing the officer at the centre, instead ...
The blur of history: Student protest and photographic clarity in South African universities, 2015–2016
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
I have three points I would like to put forward – about strong photographs, about clarity and about blur. I also have a number of photographs dating from October 2015 at the University of the Western Cape that will be ...