The Lesser Violence Reading Group ‘20

2020 Curators:

 
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Danielle Bowler

Danielle Bowler is a feminist culture editor, writer and musician, based in Johannesburg. Her work focuses on the intersections of art, popular culture and feminist theory. Currently at New Frame, she is the former Managing Editor of ELLE Magazine and has bylines in Mail&Guardian, Eyewitness News, Cosmopolitan, Africa is a Country and Superbalist, among other publications. Danielle has an MA in Politics andInternational Studies, focusing on developing a historical and philosophical framework to understand questions of coloured identity. She is also part of the team at Bloom, a platform for creative women entrepreneurs and freelancers, with Nandi Dlepu and Larissa Elliot.

 
 
 
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Keval Harie

Keval Harie is an activist, writer and qualified attorney, who has always sought to put South Africa’s constitution at the centre of his career, using it to find new ways to promote social justice and human rights across the country.  As executive director at The GALA Queer Archive, Keval is most excited about the opportunity to connect the archives to new intersections of activism, particularly around gender identity and sexuality.

 
 
 
 
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Amie Soudien

Amie LH Soudien is a curator, researcher and art writer from Cape Town, South Africa. Soudien completed her BAFA at Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2013, and completed her MA in New Arts Journalism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Her interests include the history of Cape Town, archival studies, popular media, gender and sexuality, and emerging artists from Africa and the diaspora. In 2016 she was a National Fellow at the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA) in Cape Town. Soudien currently resides in Johannesburg, and is a Curator and Researcher at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, at the University of Johannesburg.  As an art writer, she has contributed  to ArtThrob, Adjective, Between 10 and 5, ArtAFRICA, the Mail & Guardian, and Frieze. Her current research concerns the use of art, performance and the performing arts in the commemoration of slavery in the Cape.