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NewspapersIn 1992 I saw the film Manufacturing Consent* at the annual film festival in Durban, South Africa. It was a three hour documentary on the life and work of the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. In order to show some filmic equivalent of concepts described by Chomsky in his writings, the filmmakers had produced a number of effective visual analogies. One particularly memorable example addressed The New York Timess quantitatively unequal

Kocjancic sees the people that he depicts as a part of himself

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considered the movement in the Global South

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the snake has a controversial presence: on the one hand

The book contains full-page images of these artefacts along with reproductions of the ship’s manifest

from classical and non-Western art to Renaissance and modern masters and dialogues with other leading figures from the British and European avant-gardes

Incoming by Irish artist Richard Mosse deals with the major humanitarian and political plight of our time

and that much of Apartheid-era South African art was Dadaist in its surreality (whether intentionally or otherwise)

a magazine dedicated to contemporary South African art criticism

the black neighbourhood in Simonstown that was completely demolished in 1964 and from where most of the residents were moved to Gugulethu

all belonging to a single private collection of stunning quality that documents four decades of life dedicated to art