"To say that this action is like a tremor from the trauma of the genocide-in-progress is not to overstate the shattering effect of an official acting as a censor on behalf of the same government whose case against Israeli acts of genocide compelled the world to bear witness."
"How could the same government that brought Israel in front of the International Court of Justice to answer for its war crimes in Gaza also censor an artist's performance about Palestinian grief? The answer to that has to do with the choices of South Africa's right-wing Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie. In a must-read opinion piece today, writer and scholarChristina Sharpe and University of Buffalo professorRinaldo Walcott rebuke McKenzie's decision"
South Africa's Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie canceled Gabrielle Goliath's performance Elegy for the national pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The cancellation occurred even as the government pursued an international case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over alleged war crimes in Gaza. The decision has been characterized as censorship that undermines the legacy of the anti-Apartheid struggle and as an attempt to erase Gaza and Palestinians from the art world's public sphere. Calls have emerged to reinstate the pavilion and to acknowledge the ongoing presence of artists whose earthworks have been erased by time.
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