Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
Ghost Siting's
Ghost sitings consist of a series of public online seminars, talks, and film screenings
Expanding on research that tackles the way surfaces, skins and facades mediate, translate and transmute information, data, and history.
Through a spectral, virtual gaze, we tour six haunted ‘surfacings’ on our continent - that include Durban’s ‘Golden Mile’ - a landscape re-veneered to copy Miami’sbeachfront; as well as sites in Senegal, Johannesburg, and the EasternCape in South Africa. The ghost tour engages with a wide range of practices and ways of thinking, making and engaging with the supersurfaces in their context.
Presenter Line-Up
Organisers & Moderator:
Sarah de Villiers
Naadira Patel
Special thanks to:
Nothando Lunga
GSA (ops team)