William Kentridge in conversation with Sarah Nuttall

The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) presents

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE

In Conversation with

SARAH NUTTALL

“I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings.  An art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check and nihilism at bay”, says William Kentridge in a recent interview.

Kentridge’s output fluently shifts across such media as drawing, film, collage prints, sculpture, and stage sets and theatre. If his work resonates the South African experience and the city he lives in, Johannesburg, it also draws on a variety of European sources (literature, opera, early cinema). His most recent work  (The Nose, Vertical Thinking, The Refusal of Time) is characterized by profound conceptual changes and novel ways of connecting the visual arts, cinema, the performing arts and music. In this conversation with cultural critic and Director of WISER, Sarah Nuttall, he will explore the politics of form and the forms of the political in his latest creations.

Thursday, February 21

6:00-7:30pm

WISER Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building,

East Campus, Wits University

Refreshments will be served

Please RSVP to Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za before noon on February 19.