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...often that an artist working in Africa receives international attention. But William Kentridge, raised in Johannesburg, has bridged the continental gap with his visceral animations of South African life. Incorporating diverse media into his surreal films, Kentridge examines—with disturbing intensity—how ordinary people can become deadened to the violence and inequity around them. Tonight at 6 p.m., he will discuss his work at the Carpenter Center in a lecture called in “In Praise of Shadows...
Kentridge is an unusually versatile artist, with a background ranging from opera to politics. He was born into a Jewish family in Johannesburg in 1955. In an interview with writer bell hooks in the September 1998 issue of Interview magazine, he noted that “a central irony exists for South African Jews. To be Jewish was to be other…But in the present, we are absolutely not part of those most oppressed.” Kentridge’s fascination with otherness and the divisions within South African society led him to earn...
...1970s also saw Kentridge becoming heavily involved with theater as a set designer, actor, writer and director. In 1975, he helped found the Junction Avenue Theatre Company, based in Johannesburg and Soweto. Kentridge’s interest in theater then led him briefly away from Johannesburg to study mime and theatre at the Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France, from 1981 to 1982. In more recent years, he has collaborated with the Handspring Puppet Company, creating multimedia theater combining animation, puppets and live actors. In 1998, the Company staged a multimedia version of the opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse...
...fresh water. Some 15 years later, I went back to those roots. Alas! The land had been destroyed for slash-and-burn farming and lumber harvesting. Even my beautiful small waterfall was gone. I wondered where the birds had gone. Were they dead? I can only conclude that the Johannesburg 2002 summit on sustainable development will soon be nothing but a historical footnote, just like Stockholm 1982 and Rio 1992. VICTOR OSA-ASEMOTA Madrid...
...charges of high treason. The South African security forces have reason to regard the threat as real. Last week, a large cache of weapons and explosives, which police say may be linked to the plot to overthrow the A.N.C., was discovered at a farm some 170 km north of Johannesburg. And 3 weeks before that an abandoned truck filled with arms, ammunition and explosives was found in South Africa's North West province. Police say a meeting of the Farmers' Force, the right-wing splinter group suspected of being behind the plot, was planned in the area. But the gathering...