Khwezi Gule
To Heal a Nation: Performance and Memorialisation in the Zone of Non-Being
Acts of Transgression (Pather and Boulle, 2019)
Gule argues that memorialisation hasn’t been successful in forging a unified national identity, that there is still abetween the ideal of a booming nation and the marginalisation and dispossession of Black people. He believes that state-adopted commemorative practices do not speak sufficiently to a living knowledge and real understanding of historical events. Citing the work of artists like Makandula, Buhlebezi Siwe and others, he critiques current modes of memorialisation and the very notion of nationhood.
About Kwezi Gule
Khwezi Gule is a curator and writer based in Johannesburg. He is currently Chief Curator at the Soweto Museums, which includes, the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum and the Kliptown Open Air Museum. Prior to that, Gule held the position of curator of contemporary collections at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
