Abstract Recent protests against colonial racism and power at the University of Cape Town have engaged specific forms of ‘formal’ artwork found on the campus. The burning of paintings during the Shackville protests in February 2016 raised a number of fundamental questions. The shack built by protesting students and referred to as Shackville was later demolished by university authorities and security but bears potency as a creative intervention. In this article, I discuss Shackville as well as ‘Echoing Voices from Within’, the RMF exhibition at the Centre for African Studies (CAS) gallery in 2016 as transformative creative intervention. Drawing from the notion of ruination developed by Anne Stoler, I argue that both forms of art intervention illustrate the current incommensurability of racialised spaces in South Africa. Navigating a post-apartheid complex terrain, creative protest engages with different notions of ruination and what it means to live within interminable colonial conditions.

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在种族隔离遗址上

摘要 最近在开普敦大学举行的反对殖民种族主义和权力的抗议活动涉及校园内发现的特定形式的“正式”艺术品。2016 年 2 月沙克维尔抗议期间的绘画焚烧引发了许多基本问题。由抗议学生建造并被称为 Shackville 的小屋后来被大学当局和安全部门拆除，但具有创造性干预的效力。在本文中，我将讨论 Shackville 以及 2016 年在非洲研究中心 (CAS) 画廊举办的 RMF 展览“来自内心的呼声”，作为变革性的创造性干预。根据安妮·斯托勒 (Anne Stoler) 提出的毁灭概念，我认为这两种艺术干预形式都说明了当前南非种族化空间的不可通约性。