Browsing by Author "Ligthart, Mariette"

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    History and power : a investigation of identity and re-presentation
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-03) Ligthart, Mariette; Kaden, Marthie; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This investigation acts on the assumption that Knowledge is a means by which reality is represented to us through power relations. As a represented reality, Knowledge on its part reconstructs an exclusive reality which pertains solely to the interests of those in power. Knowledge therefore comprises a fixed meaning - constituted from words and images (or texts) represented with a disregard for their relevant con [text]s. Yet my work - as a re-presentation of the past - confronts the [Hi]story represented by the Apartheid Regime and a reading/viewing of my books re-w[rite]s this slanted Narrative. By means of juxtaposition or through re-presenting texts in con[text]s different from those with which they are traditionally associated, a reading/viewing of my work creates relationships of inter-dependence. Through the reciprocal movement inevitably coinciding with such a reading/viewing, a process of redemption takes place as the reader is dis-placed and meaning shifted from one level to an[other].