CTV News Bulletin of November 17, 2011. Topic: Lesbian artist Zanele Muholi uses menstruation as a medium to tell the story of black lesbians in South Africa. Visual artist and queer activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa was interviewed by Cape Town TV about her latest exhibition Isilumo siyaluma (Period Pains)….
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Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”
At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.
Isilumo siyaluma, zulu expression which means period pains, as we continue to live and survive in troubled times as black lesbians in South Africa and within the continent. Visual artist Zanele Muholi explains her queer art project “Isilumo siyaluma” to Toxic Lesbian, Madrid, Spain. Related Links Zanele Muholi’s online portfolio…
Zanele Muholi has a solo show, accompanied by a new publication on her work, at Casa Africa in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, opening 19 October and running till 20 January. She also has work on Face of Our Time, travelling to the University of Michigan Museum of Art
The Audience awards 2011 for the best short film of the AITP filmfestival 2011 in Amsterdam went to: Documentary Difficult Love directed by Zanele Muholi + Peter Goldsmid (South Africa). With the prize comes 500 euro. Congratulations!!! to queer photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa and to director/producer…
Lesbians Seeing Lesbians: building community in early feminist photography
focuses on three of the most prominent photographers of this early generation: Tee A. Corinne (1943-2006: St. Petersburg, Florida), JEB (Joan E. Biren, b.1944: Washington D.C.), and Cathy Cade (b.1942: Honolulu, Hawaii). And the works of contemporary lesbian photographers: Cass Bird, Angela Jimenez, Zanele Muholi and Catherine Opie.
Activist and visual artist Zanele Muholi has send the article ANTI-CENSORSHIP, which was published in the Sunday Tribune, South Africa, July 2011. Sunday Tribune’s Vivian Attwood quotes activist, black lesbian and photographer Zanele Muholi who talked about her work as a visual activist: ‘I am an activist before I am…
STEVENSON is proud to present a solo exhibition by Zanele Muholi; Inkanyiso at Stevenson,
Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 July – 5 August 2011
Zanele Muholi (Faces and Phases) at ihlia, Amsterdam in 2010
The short film ‘Difficult Love’ is a portrait of visual activist Zanele Muholi from Sout Africa and her portfolios of fine art photography. – It is a highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today that emerges through Muholi’s life, work, friends and her associates.
Zanele Muholi was in Stockholm, Sweden end of March 2010 to talk about her film about the challenges which Black lesbians faces every day in South Africa.
‘Difficult Love’ is a highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today emerges through the life, work, friends and associates of ‘visual activist’ and internationally celebrated photographer, Zanele Muholi.
I love receiving short happy emails. Congratulations!!! Zanele, Great that you and Peter have won the Zinegoak’s Lesbianism and Genre Award 2011.
A Feminine Moments review of the art book ‘Faces and Phases’ by queer photographer Zanele Muholi from South Africa and the short film ‘Difficult Love’ about Zanele and her photography, directed by Peter Goldsmid.
The Out In Africa Film Festival will be screening a film, commissioned by the SABC and co-directed by Peter Goldsmid and Zanele Muholi, called ‘Difficult Love’. It is a portrait of queer visual artist Zanele, and her work.
The ‘Faces and Phases’ series of black and white portraits by Zanele Muholi focuses on the commemoration and celebration of black lesbians’ lives.
An artist talk with photographer Zanele Muholi, June 8 2010, 7:00pm at Rivington Place, London, UK. Zanele Muholi will present an overview of her work with particular emphasis on gender and sexuality based violence in South Africa.
The Rencontres de Bamako, African photography biennial, in Mali 2009 featured a rising generation of South African photographers and video artists. Queer photographer Zanele Muholi was one of them. Now her photographs can be seen at a group exhibition in Holland.
The Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town will be putting up an exhibition by photographer, Zanele Muholi, from April 22 to May 29 2010. Queer photographer and activist Zanele Muholi explores the implications of being black and queer through a range of different series and strategies.
Muholi/ B(L)ACK – April 8 – 16, 2010, Exhibition by Zanele Muholi, South Africa, Opening Night: April 14, 5-7 pm.
Faculty Gallery, Faculty Art & Design, Art & Design Building (G), Monash University, 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia
A Response to Minister Lulu Xingwana’s Comments about the Innovative Women Exhibition. By Gabeba Baderoon.