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Precarious Video: Historical Events, Trauma, and Memory in South African Video Art (Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis, Berni Searle, Minnette Vari).
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This conference paper was presented at the Archives Matter Conference Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters, the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths. I focus on a video artwork by the Greek/South African artist Penny Siopis titled Obscure White Messenger () in order to think about how the moving image encounters historical events, and the archives, official/unofficial, they bring into being. This video stages an elusive encounter with the figure of Demitrios Tsafendas who stabbed Hendrik Verwoerd, the so-called ‘architect of apartheid’, to death in the House of Assembly, Cape Town, 6 September The work is constructed entirely from found footage discovered, often serendipitously, in markets, and second hand shops, in Greece and South Africa. It also deploys sound, and the device of the subtitle. I experience the work as murky, disorientating and opaque. It is characterised by a certain impenetrability, a refusal to tell me what it is about in any didactic and definitive sense. It draws
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