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Polis: An Arena for the examination of a South African Town

Notes

The Polis Series was an inter-disciplinary collaboration which explored questions about the performativity of knowledge. It hoped to critique and enact some of the ways in which knowledge is generated in terms of a poetics of the body in performance.

Artist / Author Athina Vahla, Ford Evanson, Mark Wilby, Anton Krueger
Publisher Rhodes University Drama Department
Reference D2079
Date 2012
Type DVD

Keywords

city environment identity installation intervention site specific South Africa urban

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