Programme:

Friday, 16th September 2016

9.00 – 10.00: Welcome and introductory address: A Luta Continua: Doing it for Daddy – Ten Years On…

Dr Sharlene Khan – Senior Lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture, School of Fine Art, Rhodes

10.00 – 11.00: Black artists, White labels Continued…

Ms Nontobeko Ntombela – Lecturer, Department of Art History and Heritage Studies, Wits School of

the Arts, University of the Witwatersrand

11.00 – 11.15: Tea

11.15 – 12.15: Speaking Truth to Power:  reflections of being a black creative scholar

Dr Same Mdluli – Guest Lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University

12.15 – 13.15: Unlearning ‘art writing’

Mr Fouad Asfour – Editor, writer

13.15 – 14.00: Lunch

14.00 – 15.00: Doing Ventriloquism in South African Art Publications

Mr Khwezi Gule – Director, Hector Pietersen Museum

15.00 – 16.30: The Politics of Participation

Panel dialogue with Sharlene Khan, Khwezi Gule, Nontobeko Ntombela, Nomusa Makhubu and Same Mdluli moderated by Fouad Asfour

17.30 – 18.00: Ingqumbo/Wrath

Mr Sikhumbuzo Makandula – Fourth year student, BFA, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University

18.30: Dinner

 

Saturday, 17th September 2016

9.00 – 10.00: A Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Value of Discomfort

Prof Ruth Simbao – NRF Chair, Art History and Visual Culture, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University

10.00 – 11.00: Colonial Ghost // Articulations of Whiteness in Institutional Spaces

Ms Gemma Hart – Honours in Art History, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand

11.00 – 11.15: Tea

11.15 – 12.15: Show Me the Flaming Art: Patron-Clientilism and the Convenience of Race

Dr Nomusa Makhubu – Lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture, Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town

12.15 – 13.15: The Conundrum of Know-it-all-ledge: A reflective moment

Ms Simnikiwe Buhlungu – Third Year Student, BFA, Wits School of the Arts, University of the Witwatersrand

13.15 – 14.15: Lunch

14.15 – 15.30: Crossroads: Reading between the lines

Ms Aaliyah Tshabalala, Ms Mosa Kaiser, Ms Khwezi Zungu – Third and first year students in Art History, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University

15.30 – 16.30: Doing Race Work and concluding remarks

Dr Sharlene Khan

18.00: Drinks and dinner