The lunch break marks a pause in the working day… a time for rest from production…for forms of exchange not, yet, for-profit…for relations to be, but, in common, often shaped by reciprocities…learned at home…not work…but, yet work that matters to be…differently…
Hosted by the Society, Work and Politics Institute, the Lunch Break will be a pace to be together in common… to eat together…for dialogue and discussion to imagine what might yet be…
At the centre of the ArtTalk will be the idea of restitution.
Restitution returns to our collective past, acknowledges the inequalities of our present and seeks paths to a different yet to come…Yet…the formal, legal and institutional processes of restitution have not taken full account of what was dispossessed. It has reduced the land to a capitalist commodity, forgetting that work was dispossessed along with the land, and looks away while dispossession continues. The conversation will draw on the work of Simon Gush’s films and artworks around the dispossession of land and work in Salem, Niren Tolsi’s work on the enclosure, land dispossession and cricket in Salem, Eastern Cape, contained in his book, Writing around the Wicket, and Dineo Skosana in her recently published book No Last Place to Rest, which addresses ongoing dispossession and grave relocations in mining-affected communities in post-apartheid South Africa.
Lunch will be provided.
Production Credits
SWOP: Dineo Skosana, Tasneem Essop, Lesego Loate, Niren Tolsi, Lucinda
Becorny, Kim Johaar and Simon Gush.
About the Artists
The Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) is one of the University of the Witwatersrand’s oldest research entities. Encompassing our institutional, individual and collective research is the concept of Land Labour Life. Land, Labour and Life are commonly significant to different experiences of colonisation, proletarianisation, and social, economic and political transitions away from them. While the study of each, on their own (as concept, question, theme) has produced (and continues to produce) important insights into the character of society, thought together-they provide different paths and windows to unravelling what has been and become, what is, and what is yet, to come.
- Venue: Ntsikana Gallery
- Location: Monument Building
- Ticket price: ZAR 80.00
- Programme type: Curated Programme
- Genre: ArtTalk
- Duration: 120 minutes
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Ages:
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