1. What is Kentridge's ethnicity? (After reading I found out he was of Lithuania and German Jewish decent living in Africa.)
2. Do the figures in his work represent him in any way?
3. Is his work political?
Favorite quotes:
"William Kentridge probes the guts of a governing body suffering from its own abuses and illustrates the consequences of tis accumulated offences." 156
"In Kentridge's films, the horror of torture and dismemberment occurs within the internal domans of memory adn conscience, not as it might appear in pupular media accounts." 158
"Can reconciliation, once it has been accomplished as a formal court procedure, evoke comparable accomodation within the secret recesses of the human conscience?" 161
"...windshield wipers work fervently to clear the conscience and bring the past into focus. But grims continually accumulates on the glass, obscuring the scenese much in the manner that the mind represses painful memories." 161
"He can't say, 'Well, it wasn't my fault'... It's that sort of indeterminate position. He is the dricver, and somehow tied into and responsible for events that he is part of even if he is not, as it were, foresically guilty of it." 162
"He's busy, but the sobering things is, well, if he's just back and busy in teh world, then what was teh point of the whole journey?" 162
"...here's a person who's in a coma because of the weight of what he's seen, of what he's been through. Is that going to kill him? It becomes clear. No, people don't die from the guilt of their feeilings or the weight of their memroies - even though they ought to, perhaps. But they contain them. These memories may suddenly resurface in a crisis, but they get pushed away." 162
"Traces of people, objects, and landscapes appear and disappear like memories. .. Kentridge mirrors the real life process in which current events are inevitably affected by past events." (163)
"To say that one needs art or politics that incoporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understandng of fallibitlity and how the very act of certainty of authoritativeness can bring disasters." Kentridge (164)
Ending questions:
1. What is he working on today? (If he is.)
2. With digital advances of today, would (or is) he still using same techniques?
3. How does opera tie into all of this?
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