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    Making a monument out of a memory
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2024-03 ) Brincat, Aldo Mario Joseph; Moe, Ledelle; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research project explores my creative artistic practice as a process that is fluid and unfixed. In my work, I explore and respond to existing memorials/markers to create site responsive sculptures, drawings, performance, and photographs. A central concern in my work is the process of converting personal memory, loss, grief, shame, and the passing of time, into commemorative markers. In doing so I embrace the temporal performative qualities of returning to significant sites and past events, (real, forgotten, or imagined), and observing how these experiences affect my art practice. I refer to my primary authors Sabine Marschall, Annie Coombes, Derek Hook and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, in discussing the public sphere of memorials, collective memory and trauma. These insights dovetail into my own insights on how different audiences’ views on commemorative markers change over time, and how the function of commemorative markers are affected by maintenance or neglect; deliberate denigration, and natural entropy. I refer to the work of artists Haroon Gunn-Salie and Sethembile Msezane, each of whom are known to produce work that functions both as performance, and as temporal public commemorative markers. Discussion of my work has been woven into the paper in the form of vignettes that reflect my experiences of certain places, insights, and processes that inform my creative practice. This body of work takes the form of this research article, an exhibition titled, At the Edge of the Vanishing, and the scripting and performance of an original, autobiographical theatre script titled, The Moon Looks Delicious From Here.