Visual Jurisprudence and Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa (Co-hosted with Visual Politics Seminar)

Presented by Dr Eliza Garnsey, University of Cambridge. 

Art is a radical form of political participation in times of transition. Arising out of fieldwork at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the South Africa Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which included 130 interviews with key decision makers, I explore three novel and important areas of transitional justice: the theoretical framing of justice and art; the visual jurisprudence of justice measures developed in transition; and, the cultural diplomacy practices of states emerging from conflict.

We will be taking Eliza out for coffee after the seminar.  You are welcome to join us if you would like to meet her in person and continue the conversation.

Eliza Garnsey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations at the University of Cambridge. Her book, The Justice of Visual Art: Creative State-Building in Times of Political Transition, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. She will speak about how art is a radical form of political participation in times of transition. Arising out of fieldwork at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the South Africa Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which included 130 interviews with key decision makers, she explores three novel and important areas of transitional justice: the theoretical framing of justice and art; the visual jurisprudence of justice measures developed in transition; and, the cultural diplomacy practices of states emerging from conflict.