Grey Areas: Representation, Identity & Politics in Contemporary South African Art

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Highlights debates that emerged at the time of the Second Johannesburg Biennial (1997), under the creative direction of Okwui Enwezor, about South African art in the broader context of contemporary art and African identity. Includes essays by 35 leading artists, academics, critics and commentators from South Africa and elsewhere. The volume addresses issues of representation, identity and politics with strong focuses on issues of race, post- colonialism and gender. It is also concerned, more broadly, with the role of critical theory in framing the discourse on contemporary African art.Contemporary art in post-apartheid South Africa is informed by the same debates around cultural production that mark this country’s broader political landscape. Grey Areas is the first book of its kind to document these debates as they unfold in the cultural field: over 30 contributions from locally and internationally based practitioners engage the controversial issue of imaging identity in South African artistic production. The diverse perspectives constituting Grey Areas will inevitably fire further dialogue on issues that will remain vital to an ongoing and productive critical debate in this and future, historical moments.