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FOKOFO

proposal for the display entitled FOKOFO 

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.

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Dieter Reusch & Michael Matthews

FOKOFO is a display created by DASART

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