Constant Transition: Memorial Landscape is a research-based textual/figural intervention examining the history of South African land and land conflict through the reiteration of 500 years of historical record beginning in 1488. The work consisted of four days of continuous writing by hand of over 300,000 words from sources including, historical accounts, poems, novels, studies and academic papers, simultaneously aiming to open the archive to inspection and to reveal the inadequacy of the historical record and thus the narrative.
About Nolan Oswald Dennis
Nolan Oswald Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. His practice explores what he calls ‘a black consciousness of space’: the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization. His work questions the politics of space and time through a system-specific, rather than site-specific approach. He is concerned with the hidden structures that pre-determine the limits of our social and political imagination.
