11 Nov 2015, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
Non-transmittable form? Thoughts on the impossibility to show what might need to be shown today.
It is a contemporary given that cultures are replete with forms that have been transmitted from elsewhere. Most discourse on global art either assumes that this transmission has been easy and neutral, or fraught and based on power relations. Whether the problem of transmission is articulated or not, it is commonly taken for granted that exhibitions are functioning transmission machines. But what about form that simply does not transfer? Or does not transfer simply?]]>