Street Art enters the KZNSA gallery space this month with shifting territories. Curated by Doung
Jahangeer and Iain Ewok Robinson, shifting
territories presents an extraordinary reading of Durban on the gallery
floor, offering a new perspective on movement within our city.
“Our movement within a city, the way we interact with its
streetscape, its surfaces, its asperities and ruptures, is a reading,” explains
sociolinguist and educator William
Kelleher in his concept note.
“As we move we actualise a
path – a path that is individual, and yet constrained by the possibilities
offered. It is much as if we move elliptically through a page of text,
accepting some parts, reflecting on or rejecting others. Cognitively, the
memories and associations of our lives that subtend the places we pass through,
form a network of meaning and reference. Our movement gives this a chronology,
the same chronology that is used in narrative - linking through time events that
should perhaps find their reason in affect, or gender, or necessity, more than
a serial ordering. Finally the coherence produced through reference, ellipsis,
conjunction is that of the text – a text whose ultimate meaning lies in the
hands of the reader. A text that cannot be neutral but that is shot through
with questions of power and access.
(For the rest of Kelleher’s note, visit http://www.kznsagallery.co.za/exhibitions/shifting_territories.htm)
shifting territories
runs until October 12 and is a project of the KZNSA’s Social Art 2014/15
Programme, supported by the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund.
The KZNSA Gallery
is situated at 166 Bulwer Road,
Glenwood, in Durban.
More information on 031 277 1703, fax 031 201 8051 or cell 082 220 0368 or
visit www.kznsagallery.co.za
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