The art of politics and the politics of art colloquium

The Humanities Graduate Centre will host a colloquium aimed at key scholars in the arts that have responded in various ways to the recent students' movements.

This colloquium will particularly focus on the RhodesMustFall and Shackville movements.

Speakers will make presentations on the topic: The Art of Politics and the Politics of Art.

The colloquium will take the recent student protests as an occasion to probe questions around the visual representation of current struggles, where the act of re-imagining a new scholarly discourse around debates such as de-colonising institutions of learning is not only prompted by a conversation centred on socio-political rhetoric but also by an artistic account that acknowledges the multi-layered ways of exploring history, processes of transformation and present day intersections between art and politics.

It examines the state of the current visual art landscape, which, although somewhat estranged from the political landscape, in many ways offers a much wider scope for exploring issues of representation, inclusivity and redress in more meaningful ways.

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