{"id":302,"date":"2004-03-13T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:47:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:47:48","slug":"sontag-at-wits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/13\/sontag-at-wits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sontag at Wits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went to go see Susan Sontag speak yesterday, at WSOA – Wits School of Arts.<\/a> Her extremely opinionated, often tangential, very ‘new-york,’ occasionally crude, or even rude, disposition was exactly what I needed for a breath of fresh air ;)
\nAmongst interesting ideas about the photographic image’s influence on contemporary culture (HUGE, but nice to hear her say that text still takes the cake), she had some very insightful things to say about the South African artist’s hard place of feeling responsible for the ‘image’ of their home country, in addition to trying to produce provocative work.
\nThe highlight (other than Sontag’s Bush-bashing, and my calling her ‘swell’ on the microphone) was the ever-intelligent Jo Ractliffe’s comment\/question about the intent behind said framing (ie photography) and where, with that in mind, we might discuss ‘beauty’ in- and outside of the artspace. Sontag’s reply was, ‘I agree with you. Er, with what you are implying.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Went to go see Susan Sontag speak yesterday, at WSOA – Wits School of Arts. Her extremely opinionated, often tangential, very ‘new-york,’ occasionally crude, or even rude, disposition was exactly what I needed for a breath of fresh air ;) Amongst interesting ideas about the photographic image’s influence on contemporary culture (HUGE, but nice to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-4S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":583,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/11\/hans-bernhard-at-wits\/","url_meta":{"origin":302,"position":0},"title":"hans bernhard at wits","author":"nathaniel","date":"11 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1325,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/young-nerf-at-wits\/","url_meta":{"origin":302,"position":1},"title":"Young Nerf at Wits","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 September 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/noproblemwits.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1577,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/ralph-borland-at-wits-johannesburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":302,"position":2},"title":"Ralph Borland at Wits (Johannesburg)","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 January 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If in Joburg, go see a great speaker and artist (and my classmate from ITP, peer in South Africa, and colleague in Dublin), Ralph Borland, next Friday. 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