\\\’In literature, redress in italics keeps the concept in suspense as it makes one reflect upon, even bring into play, the very body of the questions: Whose redress? What is redressed? How does this happen and when? All these uncertainties inform the attempt to understand redress within our cultural production\\\’ (Derrida 2003: 18). This body of work investigates processes of redress and strategies of transformation are at the heart of this investigation. The artist uses personal motivation and interest to probe strategies of redress, or forms of redress, which lead her to juxtapose processes of what she has termed aesthetic redress against processes of judicial redress. Rust therefore stages the fictional case of R v Judicial Redress 2010 (R v JR 2010)2 in this document and in her practical body of work.
redress transformation performance installation truth fiction judiciary trauma control law
Artist: Elgin Rust
Gallery: Michaelis Galleries, Egyptian Building, Cape Town
Catalogue presented as part of a MFA degree
Date: 2010
Website (response by Natasha Norman): www.natashanorman.co.za/projects/2012/06/01/gagging-order/
Pages: 122
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