It is rare to find a master's thesis published by a recognized publishing house. Even more so if it is the thesis of an artist. Plan B, a Gathering of Strangers (or) This is Not Working is an artistically thoughtful, scholarly and theoretically sound, and aesthetically pleasing university thesis that has found a kindred spirit in iwalewabooks, a publisher known for carefully crafted publications. It is also a reflexive condensation of the artistic, personal and intellectual path of its author Goldendean, also known as Dean Hutton. And it is a testament to the sociopolitically engaged and innovative climate of the Live Art and Performance Program at the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA) under the direction of Jay Pather in Cape Town, where Goldendean picked up crucial impulses during their MA studies at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Particularly in the wake of the #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements, ICA emerged...
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December 01 2022
PLAN B, a Gathering of Strangers (or) This Is Not Working by Goldendean
PLAN B, a Gathering of Strangers (or) This Is Not Working
by Goldendean
Bayreuth:
iwalewabooks
2018
253 pp., 300 color ill., bibliography. €25.00 paper
Fiona Siegenthaler
Fiona Siegenthaler
Fiona Siegenthaler is an art historian and social anthropologist specializing in contemporary African art. She is the Africa curator at Linden-Museum Stuttgart and a research associate at the Universities of Basel and Johannesburg. Fiona.Siegenthaler.fs@gmail.com
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Fiona Siegenthaler
Fiona Siegenthaler is an art historian and social anthropologist specializing in contemporary African art. She is the Africa curator at Linden-Museum Stuttgart and a research associate at the Universities of Basel and Johannesburg. Fiona.Siegenthaler.fs@gmail.com
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2022 by the Regents of the University of California
2022
Regents of the University of California
African Arts (2022) 55 (4): 93–94.
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Fiona Siegenthaler; PLAN B, a Gathering of Strangers (or) This Is Not Working by Goldendean. African Arts 2022; 55 (4): 93–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00689
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