ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author examines how artists, in different ways, engage with how the body is experienced in space, especially how racialized and gendered bodies navigate and respond to these different environments. She interrogates her own practice as a white, Namibian-born artist working in these landscapes, aware of the racialized and generational differences between herself and other women. The traditional landscape genre with its diverse influences ranging from German and Dutch Romanticism in painting and photography has historically been dominated by European males and has marginalized women, especially women of colour. Although a number of these artists base their work in real-life scenarios and locations, the pursuit of meaning now lies in a strong tendency towards embodied and interventionist performances, working in collectives and deconstructing traditional visual fields and genres associated with disciplines such as painting, photography and sculpture in favour of cross-disciplinary practices.
