Termine

Book launch and a celebration of biblio-diversity: iwalewabooks

In July 2017 the South African Equality Court dismissed charges of hate speech against Goldendean’s exhibition of a poster featuring words “Fuck White People“ in the Iziko National Gallery. The Chief Magistrate found that the work’s context, as art, brought attention to structural racism and white supremacy, and drew South Africans to a “critical moment of self-reflection“. Plan B reflects on the effects of their performance of simple acts of dissidence in a transgressive fat, queer, white trans* body. The book explores how strategies of technology as self-reflection and radical sharing, queer love and queer disobedience contribute to “making whiteness strange“. They believe that by destabilising the normal invisibility of whiteness, they can bring white bodies under surveillance.

Plan B is going to be presented by iwalewabooks, a new publishing house for art and discourse. Iwalewabooks dedicates their publications to questions about aesthetic social discourses, the politics of collecting, debates about archives and artistic and academic positions from the Global South.