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Slave Trades & an Artist's Notebook
Ari Sitas EXTRACT PURCHASE (in RSA) PURCHASE (ROW) (e)mail Richard Bowker, Mail & Guardian, 9-14 June, 2000: ... an overwhelming sense of displacement and of searching, of struggle and resistance: the expansionist European imperialism of the last century (of which Rimbaud – being there, displaced – is himself a symptom); civil war, famine, poverty in the present... along this narrow space-time bridge, Sitas constructs an imaginary narrative that enacts an historical succession of possible genealogical and actual international circumstances over a century, linking Slave Trades to the globalised landscape of now: derelict cars, Coca-Cola, transnational commerce, modern warfare and economic injustice.
Gary Cummiskey, The Sunday Independent, 18 June 2000: |