Speakers
- Sihle Motsa
- University of the Witwatersrand
Sihle Motsa is currently registered for a Master’s in Art History at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her research interests include gender, the articulation and representation of black female subjectivities in contemporary visual culture. Her foci include concepts of gender in the Global South and how the emergent perspectives of gender in visual culture may be used to destabilize the colonial archive. She is interested in the possibility of curating from an archival perspective. This feeling is very much informed by her own subject position as a black womxn whose feminist politics have allowed her to develop a language for expressing the many ways in which black womxn have been absented from art histories and a praxis that seeks to insert marginalised voices into the contemporary art canon. She has participated in student movements such as the #Feesmustfall campaign and is supportive of local feminist movements and engages issues of postcolonial subjectivity through her academic and intellectual work as well as in her non-fictional writing.