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Meleko Mokgosi
20 quotes
“Nostalgia is not just temporal, it is also spatial; if one is of the diaspora, then there develops a distance between being in the diaspora and one’s experience “back home.”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t feel or perceive a big separation between maize meal or looking at Mandela posters because to me, they are part of my lived experience”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lot of times in a southern African context, the agents of social mobility are the middle-class people”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“gender is also a big part of the class politics of these liberation movements”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the concept of the past, as with the revolution, is exclusionary because for something to be part of the past, it has to be recognized to count”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“what I was doing, and still am trying to do, is investigate the many iterations of love, whether it is friendship or romantic love or the love for your country, which is very different from loving your partner but equally heavily invested”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was thinking about how I could use something like love to navigate the question of history as an unfinished project”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“history is always an incomplete and unstable project that depends on discursivity”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I find interesting about memory is that not all memories have to have happened, or have to be quote unquote “true”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lot of times, memorialization tends to create a hierarchy where some things become more important than others, whether it’s the history of our independence or how we imagine our future or something else.”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the valuation of the construction of the memory is very different to the actual memory that’s being recalled”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Capital itself is not bad, but what is bad is the instrumentalization of capitalism by the human”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of democracy is not a bad one but it’s just not practiced the way it ought to be”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And what I appreciate about my students is how they continue to help me to think about critical dialogue in different ways”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meleko Mokgosi by Zoé Samudzi 15 December 2022
“I think the most important thing for me is if one or two people can see what I’m trying to do and find the ideas interesting, then I’ll be happy”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is what I am interested in painting: black skin”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Artists at Work: Meleko Mokgosi 11 August 2016
“No doubt, I am heavily committed to history, and am trying to figure out how it is constructed and its effects on particular publics”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“my efforts are invested in tracing these untracked histories that almost always counter and reside within already understood and taken-for-granted historical narratives about specific events and geopolitical locations”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all know that no one is really black or white, yet we buy into these categories and attach our identities to them”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot say that there is anything such as social responsibility because that would be too prescriptive”
Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MELEKO MOKGOSI with Allie Biswas October 2016