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    Wayward Feeling
    Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa

    Helene Strauss (Author)

    9781487540586

    Hardback, published 22 July 2022

    280 pages, 9 b&w illustrations
    23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.54 kg

    Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that South Africa’s colonial and apartheid histories continue to trail in their wake. Wayward Feeling reveals how racism, sexism, and other forms of structural disenfranchisement have continued to assert themselves in affective terms, and how these terms have been recast in spaces both public and intimate in "post-rainbow" times.

    Helene Strauss argues that the tension between aspiration and achievability has yielded modes of feeling that increasingly disrupt the thrall of post-apartheid nation-building and reconciliation myths, even as widespread attachment to the utopian ideals of the anti-apartheid struggle continues to shape dissenting political organizing and cultural production. Drawing on a variety of audio-visual forms – including video installations, conceptual artwork, documentary film, live art, and sonic installations – Wayward Feeling examines some of the affective resources that people in contemporary South Africa have been drawing on to make difficult lives more bearable.

    Introduction

    Bewildering Times
    (An)aesthetics
    Wayward Feeling

    1. Troubling the Rainbow Promise

    Spectacles of Promise and Disappointment
    Quotidian Aesthetics in Video Installations by Berni Searle and Zanele Muholi
    Wayward Politics

    2. Moody, Expectant Teens

    Visual Youth Autobiography
    Mood
    Expectation and Social (Im)mobility: Sarah Chu’s Made in China and Evelyn Maruping’s Where is the Love
    Surviving Disappointment

    3. Managing Public Feeling

    The Marikana Massacre
    Pre-emptive Securitisation
    Accelerated Mourning
    Counter-affective Lingering in Rehad Desai’s Miners Shot Down
    Creative Activism

    4. Feeling the Fall

    Feeling Thought, Thinking Feeling
    Affective Cartographies
    Towards a Wayward Aesthetics of Commemoration

    5. Feminist Resonance

    Resonant Rage
    Feminist Acoustics in Gabrielle Goliath’s Personal Accounts, Elegy, and This song is for…
    Listen

    Conclusion: Shutting Down

    Breathe
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