ATHLONE IN MIND

: [Grunebaum (H.) & Campbell (K.) eds.]

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108pp., colour illus., hardback, Cape Town, 2017

 

Published to accompany the exhibition, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, 2017. Kurt Campbell, the curator and artistic director of the project, invited commissioned artists Zyma Amien, Hasan and Husein Essop, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Dathini Mzayiya and Berni Searle to imagine "Athlone in Mind". Likewise the authors who contributed to the book were invited to think about Athlone as a "dream-space". Athlone is a suburb of Cape Town that was designated for people classified Coloured by the apartheid state. Includes essays by Heidi Grunebaum, Premesh Lalu, Gabeba Baderoon, Lindelwa Dalamba, and Michail Rassool. Also includes sculpted figures by Jane Alexander