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Dancing with Nothing but Heart
Through their performance art they have dealt with the legislation of sodomy, addressed the smoking of marijuana, contemplated being trained to behave in the world by learning the 'tricks' that society expects, and confronted homophobia and anti-Semitism.
Robyn Sassen
19 Aug 2003
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Crouching Synagogue, Hidden Witness
I question the value of my presence there, as a white woman amongst young black people who historically shouldn't want to be near me or my kind.
Robyn Sassen
15 Jul 2003
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White Like Me
Murray refuses to pussyfoot around politically correct representation of ethnic diversity.
Robyn Sassen
17 Jun 2003
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Daydreams While Balancing Atop a Narrow Fence
If my Jewish identity was more easily recognisable, and I took a slightly faulty step in social protocols, would I also be fleeing on shot-out tires?
Robyn Sassen
27 May 2003
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Phoenix in My Backyard
Ziabuya shows the community that there is something special and incredible growing in the city's belly.
Robyn Sassen
16 Apr 2003
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Kentridge Matters
With his conceptual experiments, collaborative projects and performed artworks, Kentridge has succeeded in awaking everyone to the notion of classical narrative, fabulous music, the South African gesammtkunstwerk . . .
Robyn Sassen
19 Feb 2003
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In no-man's land I got lost
In Afrikaner alternative music and poetry, Johannes Kerkorrel was like the Bob Dylan of white South Africa . . .
Robyn Sassen
14 Jan 2003
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Joan Miró: An African Experience
. . . improvisation with materials that represent throwaway elements of our day-to-day existence is par for the course, both visually and economically.
Robyn Sassen
29 Oct 2002
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Johnny Clegg: A South African Story
He was the first vocal artist to use Nelson Mandela's name in lyrics, but South Africans only got to hear them after the new democracy had come about.
Robyn Sassen
15 Oct 2002
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Colour It Wild : David Goldblatt Turns Over a Colourful Leaf, in His Seventies
The tones that the sun inflicts on our spaces are often neither rich nor filled with gentle gradations.
Robyn Sassen
09 Jul 2002
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Still Standing: The Sharpeville Six
. . . The previous government gave killers the golden handshake and the present government gave them amnesty . . .
Robyn Sassen
04 Jun 2002
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Apartheid: Now in Museum Form
Paralleling concepts like apartheid with the Holocaust . . . has become a bit of a knee-jerk analogy that is often deeply fashionable and very disturbing . . .
Robyn Sassen
30 Apr 2002
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The Umbrella: A South African cultural weapon?
During apartheid, if a controversial South African artist went out of the country and 'made it' by gaining acknowledgement from 'real' galleries Out There before returning, suddenly the former pariah would magically become prodigal son and worthy citizen.
Robyn Sassen
02 Apr 2002
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Who Let the Dogs Out?
. . . instinctively, you know to steel yourself for what waits on the other side of this curtain.
Robyn Sassen
29 Jan 2002
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Dividing the Horses from the Donkeys
(W)hile we have to remain philosophical about the projects that begin like race horses and end like donkeys, the spark is there for all manner of animal to pick up some speed.
Robyn Sassen
12 Nov 2001
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