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White on the silver screen: the construction of white South African identity in international film
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the context of ‘identity’, much attention has been given to academic considerations of diversity, or the lack thereof, in the international film industry. While this is positive, there is much opportunity ... -
Walking woman: how can walking, drawing and writing be used to reclaim public space; both physically and virtually?
(2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African women and queer individuals are continuously fighting for freedom of mobility through forms of activism and protest in order to combat high statistics of gender-based violence. In this ... -
Vulnerability laid bare, a dialect without utterance: the pursuit of an arcane thread of liminality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It has been the harbinger of global chilling - the prelude to the winter of despair. The malevolent plague of Covid-19 has caught the populace off guard, spreading widespread bedlam and fear, thereby ... -
Vrye Weekblad: An analysis of the visual strategies in a South African newspaper
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In post-apartheid South Africa, the prevalence of nostalgia within cultural commodities has been chiefly viewed as escapist and an endorsement of the previous status quo. When the weekly anti-apartheid ... -
The picturesque: plant life as a reinforcement of the concept of home
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Plant life has long been a popular subject matter across visual art forms. This study explored certain historical, cultural and philosophical ideas relating to the depiction of plants, gardens and ... -
An investigation of critical citizenship in visual communication design at a HEI in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research was sparked by my interest as an art educator in drawing. Whilst observing the calming effect drawing lessons had on learners in my classroom, I realised that drawing might assist other ... -
Investigating transformation and decolonization at an institutional galley in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : During the final years of my undergraduate program, the student protests of #FeesMustFall had swept the country. The topic of decolonization came to the fore at many campuses in South Africa. From the ... -
Creepy, cute and radically soft: unpacking the importance of contemporary feminist erotic art
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The value of art that lies beyond surface levels of aestheticism has been discussed in academic depth, yet a feminist erotic art tends to escape such analyses, possibly due to its fringe status both in ... -
Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the boundaries of technological tools in relation to the human body through my own process of jewellery production. It asserts the role of the jewellery piece, as an embodiment of ... -
Constructs of expedience / places of experience: National Art Galleries and the formulation of national imaginaries
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It has been widely suggested that ideological state apparatuses such as national galleries play a significant role in the construction of national imaginaries. This study considers whether the state ... -
The body of the photograph: fragments and relations of desire
(2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research project investigates what I refer to as the body of the photograph. I consider the practice, process and experience of artmaking as crucial components that all have bearing on the materiality ... -
Becoming and Unbecoming: A critical cartography of a student journey through the Fallist period
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa's 'born-free' generation - those who were born during the country's transition to democracy - were reaching adulthood in the early 201 Os. In the years that followed, this new, post-Apartheid ...
