Right of Admission is an ongoing research project by Farieda Nazier and Alberta Whittle. RoA looks at the relationship between corporeal signifiers of race, class and gender when occupying private and public zones.
Right of Admission seeks to unravel the construction of a normative value for bodily identity by looking at extremes, obsession, spectacle, transgression and obscurity. Furthermore, the aim is to unpack the idea of ‘acceptable’ body aesthetic, as related to colourism, mixedness and privilege in order to problematize these prescribed ideals of beauty that have been cultivated over centuries. Our purpose is to show how they are interwoven with our quotidian experiences and how they contribute to the perpetuation of racial devaluation.
The newest iteration of Right of Admission at The Apartheid Museum will build on research gleaned during earlier interventions at the 56th Venice Bienale and in Johannesburg, including ROOM Gallery, public transport networks connecting Braamfontein with Sandton and Nelson Mandela Square. Connecting these different forms of research into a new constellation of knowledge at The Apartheid Museum, Nazier and Whittle will present an immersive installation and performance as an intervention into these histories of erasure.
Right of Admission seeks to unravel the construction of a normative value for bodily identity by looking at extremes, obsession, spectacle, transgression and obscurity. Furthermore, the aim is to unpack the idea of ‘acceptable’ body aesthetic, as related to colourism, mixedness and privilege in order to problematize these prescribed ideals of beauty that have been cultivated over centuries. Our purpose is to show how they are interwoven with our quotidian experiences and how they contribute to the perpetuation of racial devaluation.
The newest iteration of Right of Admission at The Apartheid Museum will build on research gleaned during earlier interventions at the 56th Venice Bienale and in Johannesburg, including ROOM Gallery, public transport networks connecting Braamfontein with Sandton and Nelson Mandela Square. Connecting these different forms of research into a new constellation of knowledge at The Apartheid Museum, Nazier and Whittle will present an immersive installation and performance as an intervention into these histories of erasure.