In this lecture Rosemarie Buikema will explore the ways in which the materiality of an artifact may produce effects in the performance of content. She will demonstrate how South African artists nowadays respond to the stories revealed … In the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1997), and point to the fact that a lot of South-African artists are using scrap materials in order to shape their comments on the divided past. In parallel, Rosemarie Buikema will also elaborate on the thesis that the political effect of the arts is intrinsically intertwined with the way in which the materiality of the artefact is deployed.
Rosemarie Buikema is professor of Art, Culture and Diversity at Utrecht University (Utrecht, the Netherlands). She chairs the UU Graduate Gender program and is the scientific director of the Netherlands Research school of Women’s Studies. She has widely published in the field of feminist and post-colonial theory, especially on the topic of political transitions and the arts. Her latest co-edited publications are Doing Gender in Media Art and Culture (Routledge 2009, with I. Van der Tuin) and Theories and Methodologies in Feminist Research (Routledge 2011, with G.Griffin and N. Lykke).
