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The opposite of everyday: Wim Botha's acts of translation
The opposite of everyday: Wim Botha’s acts of translation Published as The opposite of everyday: Wim Botha’s acts of translation, Wim Botha Annual Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art, Perryer, Sophie (ed), Standard Bank and National Arts Council, Michael Stevenson, 2005 pp 5-13. (ISBN 0-620-34440-7) Liese van der Watt One could be forgiven for assuming a too casual familiarity with Wim Botha’s work: his is a lexicon of common symbols and icons, of traditional myth and narrative, of typical passions and popular culture. And yet one would be wrong. Despite the seeming accessibility of his vocabulary, interpretation is challenged by a radical act of translation and displacement that typically removes content from context and renders his work strange, ambiguous and only vaguely familiar. The assumption of transparency invites readings that may imprison Botha’s work in a mire of identity politics; indeed, that staple triad of race, class and sex offers a lens that only partly illuminates. Of course the fact that Botha is white, middle-class, male and Afrikaans-speaking plays some role in his art, but his work is perhaps better described in terms of post-identity - a term I use to describe the way in which many con
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Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent
About the Exhibition
To Live Is to Be Marked: Thinking through Material and Meaning in Wim Botha’s Art
By Alice Gray Stites, Chief Curator, Museum Director
The plasticity of the human brain is a subject of heightened scientific interest today, as studies on the effects of computer use reveal that physical changes occur in the brain well into adulthood. The incessant connectivity and multitasking fostered by the use of digital technology is altering not only the way we live and communicate but also the very shape of the human brain and the way the mind functions. Synapses connecting areas of the brain associated with visual agility, responsiveness, and short-term memory are being strengthened by computer usage, while the vital pathways associated with deep thought and long-term memory are weakened through relative neglect. “In our dependence on the Internet, we are outsourcing memory,” says writer Nicholas Carr, who asks, “What are the consequences for the ‘unique self’?” Aristotle was famously hostile to the written word, fearing the diminishment of an oral tradition and asserting that “memory is the scribe of the soul.” Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains echoes these concerns: “As an infinitely availab