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FOKOFO is a gallery display that has developed
via a theoretical framework based on the research of Michael
Matthews, and Dieter Reusch, an anthropologist, who has been
researching the arts of the Mabaso people living in the Msinga
district of central KwaZulu-Natal.
FOKOFO aims to problematise the interpreter's
and the viewer's position in relation to exhibiting the other
and questions the interpreter's so-called authority as
interpreter. | |
FOKOFO explores the concept of cultural tolerance
through questioning and challenging the observer's understanding and
conception as viewer, observer and interpreter. This would include
an interpretation of the anthropologist's understanding of the usage
by the Mabaso people of beaded items, wood carved meat platters and
ceramics in the context of rites of maturity for marriageable
girls.
FOKOFO
investigates cross-cultural ignorance in the artist, general public
and museum. |
