Abstract
Recent protests against colonial racism and power at the University of Cape Town have engaged specific forms of ‘formal’ artwork found on the campus. The burning of paintings during the Shackville protests in February 2016 raised a number of fundamental questions. The shack built by protesting students and referred to as Shackville was later demolished by university authorities and security but bears potency as a creative intervention. In this article, I discuss Shackville as well as ‘Echoing Voices from Within’, the RMF exhibition at the Centre for African Studies (CAS) gallery in 2016 as transformative creative intervention. Drawing from the notion of ruination developed by Anne Stoler, I argue that both forms of art intervention illustrate the current incommensurability of racialised spaces in South Africa. Navigating a post-apartheid complex terrain, creative protest engages with different notions of ruination and what it means to live within interminable colonial conditions.
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