Complexities of migration : picaresque drawing

dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Leoni
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-08T07:27:23Z
dc.date.available2009-06-08T07:27:23Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThis article commences with a consideration of migration as an experience, an idea, a theme and a practice. It considers the antipodes as a focus of migration and the central role of migration in the antipodean imaginary. The writing then presents some contemporary drawings in the antipodes which make manifest the complexities of being unsettled and thus marginalised in one way or another. It argues that drawing is par excellence the material practice of migration as it is itself unsettled, unfinished, incomplete - conditions inherent in all instances of migration. Four case studies are briefly investigated. These share a picaresque quality which makes light of troubled migratory experiences while critiquing the very circumstances that give rise to such experiences. Finally, the notion of terra infirma and the tradition of the pentimento are highlighted through attention to two recent drawing projects that use the moving image.en
dc.description.abstractHierdie artikel neem aanvang met 'n inleiding oor migrasie as 'n ondervinding, 'n idee, 'n tema en 'n praktyk. Die antipodes word gesien as 'n fokus vir migrasie en die sentrale rol van migrasie in die antipodiese verbeelding word gestel. Die artikel stel dan enkele kontemporere tekeninge in the antipodes voor waarin kompleksiteite van ongeplaasdheid of ongestadigheid en die marginalisasie wat dit meebring op verskillende vlakke manifesteer. Die skrywer argumenteer dat die tekenkuns by uitstek die materiele praktyk van migrasie is aangesien dit in sigself eienskappe van ongeplaasdheid, onvolledigheid en voorlopigheid bevat - eienskappe inherent in alle gevalle van migrasie. Vier gevallestudies word kortliks ondersoek. Hul deel 'n pikareske kwaliteit waardeur ervaringe van migrasie ligweg aangebied word, terwyl die omstandighede wat daartoe aanleiding gee terselfdertyd gekritiseer word. Laastens word gefokus op die idee van terra infirma en die tradisie van die pentimento aan die hand van twee onlangse bewegende beeld tekenprojekte.af
dc.format.mediumJournal articleen_US
dc.identifier.citationSchmidt, L 2007, 'Complexities of migration: picaresque drawing', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-13. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/10395
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectPicaresque drawingen
dc.subjectMigrationen
dc.subjectAntipodesen
dc.subjectAntipodean imaginaryen
dc.subjectTroubled migratory experiencesen
dc.subject.lcshDrawingen
dc.subject.lcshAntipodeans (Group of artists)en
dc.titleComplexities of migration : picaresque drawingen_US
dc.title.alternativeKompleksiteite van migrasie : pikareske tekenkunsaf
dc.typeArticleen_US

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