“Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more…
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Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen
This Masters project by Kabelo Malatsie explores the notion of autonomy and the effect of external funders on self-organised art institutions. Institutional self-censorship and its resulting loss of autonomy are brought to the fore. Through textual sources and practice-based research, the limitations of current funding models are discussed with the intention of instigating experimentation on alternative funding and institutional models that may provide a greater degree of autonomy.
The study establishes the South African art context through one-to-one interviews with a selection of founders of local self-organised art institutions, in order to establish the limitations of their respective funding models. The practical component is presented as a book to be published on the PAN!C website.
The book includes five interviews with founders of self-organised institutions, two round-table discussions that question the notion of autonomy and an introductory text to the book.