LESSER VIOLENCE, volume 1

134pp., colour illus., hardback, Johannesburg, 2021

"In 2018 a group of artists, scholars and activists can together to explore experiences of gender, sexuality and violence ... The contributors to this collection reflect on the texts and artistic strategies that enable them to work with, through, around and against the enactment and perpetuation of gendered and sexualised violence."

Contributions include:

"Why 'Lesser Violence'? Reflections on organising the Lesser Violence Reading Group" by Keval Harie, James Macdonald and Amie Soudien

"Sitting as a Lesser Violence" by Saarah Jappie

"Chapter Y: Is survival not archival?" by Donna Kukama

"What's in a name? And other archives of forgetting" by B. Camminga

"NO EASTER SUNDAY FOR QUEERS, Haunting story" by Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga.

Curator, researcher and art writer Amie Soudien is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History, Curatorial Practice and Heritage Studies, University of the Witwatersrand. As an art writer she has contributed to Artthrob, Adjective, ArtAFRICA, Mail & Guardian and Frieze.