Skotnes exhibition opens at Origins next week

[Origins Centre]

THE COURAGE OF ||KABBO: FROM LANDSCAPE TO LITERATURE

It is just over a century since Lucy Lloyd, on behalf of herself and
Wilhelm Bleek, published the book 'Specimens of Bushman folklore', the
realisation of a lifetime’s study in |xam and !kun, two Bushman
languages of southern Africa.

In the decades since, Bleek and Lloyd’s work, gleaned from interviews
with |xam prisoners released from the Breakwater Prison in Cape Town
in the late 19th century to stay at their Mowbray home, has come to be
regarded as seminal to the study of the Bushmen, or San. It has been a
well of inspiration to renowned South African artist and professor
Pippa Skotnes, who has written and edited several books drawn from the
archival holdings related to the San.

Now Skotnes has curated a temporary exhibition called 'Landscape to
literature', which opens for a two-month run at Origins Centre at
09h00 on 10 February 2012. The exhibition includes contributions by
Stephen Inggs, Richard Mason and Jośe Manuel de Prada-Samper.

The display of photographs, original texts, notebooks, newspaper
reviews and maps honours Bleek and Lloyd’s vision and the courage of
their |xam teacher, ||kabbo, who remained in Cape Town, far from home
and family, to make his stories known. The exhibition also recognises
the story of Dia!kwain, related as it is to a broader story of
genocide reported on by the colonial magistrate Louis Anthing, and
imagines something of the transition that was made from landscape to
literature via the living room of Bleek and Lloyd’s Mowbray home.

The exhibition will be available for public viewing from Mondays to
Fridays and on Saturday mornings. In addition, we are now taking
bookings for two public walkabouts on February 18 and March 17.

EXHIBITION DETAILS
Dates: Friday 10 February - Tuesday 10 April 2012
Hours: Mon-Fri 09h00-17h00/Sat 09h00-13h00
Cost: R45 Temporary Exhibition only/R75 to tour Origins Centre
including Temporary Exhibition
Enquiries: a...@origins.org.za or tel 011 717 4700.

WALKABOUTS
Dates:
Saturday 18 February 2012 (led by photographer Jośe Manuel de Prada-
Samper)
Saturday 17 March 2012 (led by Dr Jill Weintroub, author of ‘By small
wagon with
full tent: Dorothea Bleek's journey to Kakia, June to August 1913’).
Time: 10h00 for 10h30
Cost: R50/R40 Wits staff and students
Booking essential: a...@origins.org.za or tel 011 717 4700.
Each tour is limited to 50 participants

Please e-mail your request for seats, indicating your preferred date,
to a...@origins.org.za. If you are a Wits student or Wits staff member,
please include your student or staff number. We will then e-mail an
invoice to you, which you can pay by eft or at the Origins Shop.

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