Restless infections : public art and a transforming city /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Pather, Jay (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2025.
Subjects:	Public art > South Africa. Public spaces > South Africa. Art and society > South Africa. Arts > Political aspects > South Africa. Street photography > South Africa. Art, South African > 21st century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Jay Pather
Part 1: The Restless City. Chapter 1. On Art, Contagion and Immunity / Sarah Nuttall
Chapter 2. Recalcitrant Aesthetics, Memory and Modernity in the Post-Colonial/Post-Apartheid City / Mbongeni Mtshali
Chapter 3. Habashwe! (Let Them Die!) On Black Death, Precarity and Survival in the Public Sphere / Amogelang Maledu
Part 2: Public Art for Multiple Publics. Chapter 4. Becoming Answerable: Face-to-Face Encounters during the Infecting the City Festival / Leila Anderson
Chapter 5. Unpredictable Publics and Anxious Audiences: From Anomie to Agonism in Provocative Public Art / Rike Sitas
Chapter 6. iRhanga as Public Space: Transposed and as Source for Public Encounter / Khanyisile Mbongwa
Part 3: Land, Home, Belonging. Chapter 7. Haroon Gunn-Salie’s Submerged Disruption / Nicole Sarmiento
Chapter 8. The Rusting Diamond: A Multimedia Lament for Migrant Dreams in Cape Town / Meghna Singh
Chapter 9. Seeing the Strange Place: African Street Photography as Place-Making / Sinazo Chiya
Epilogue / Jay Pather (with Nora Chipaumire, Thania Petersen and Mandla Mbothwe)
Notes on Contributors
Index.