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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Decentering the archive: visual fabrications of sonic memories
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Decentering the Archive: Visual Fabrications of Sonic Memories navigates various strategies of inverting and subverting the ordered, categorised and confined cultural archive, in this case, the Documentation ... -
Acquisition list: An institutional critique of the Stellenbosch University Museum’s Fine Arts Collection
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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 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 ... -
Ulwazi Lwemveli: the power of indigenous knowledge
(2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is titled Ulwazi Ivemveli, which translates to indigenous knowledge from isiXhosa. The purpose of the research was to promote indigenous knowledge, because it is being dominated by Western ... -
Unsettling segregation: the representation of urbanisation in black artists’ work from the 1920s to the 1990s
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study I explore artistic representations of urbanisation produced by black South African artists throughout the twentieth century. Successive colonial and apartheid governments denied black people ... -
Drawing as intervention to improve concentration in the classroom at four schools in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)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 ... -
Continuous programme renewal and critical citizenship : key items for the South African higher education curriculum agenda
(AOSIS, 2018-06-18)In this article, we explore the term ‘programme renewal’ and then continue to point out why programme renewal bodes an essential topic for continuous inquiry and attention. We also highlight the importance of approaching ... -
Exploring shame and pedagogies of discomfort in critical citizenship education
(AOSIS, 2019-09-30)Background: Social transformation in South Africa is a sensitive issue because of the historical realities of segregation and past injustices. Aim: To address transformation, Visual Communication Design students were ... -
A case study investigating creative teaching strategies inspired by Waldorf education at a public high school in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As a Visual Arts and Design educator, with eight years of public school teaching experience of engaging with and implementing the CAPS curriculum, I noticed how often learners struggled with the theory ... -
Crafting anti-stereotypes : creating space for critical engagement through art
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Xenophobia and Afrophobia attacks in South Africa and the corresponding reactions of African countries to these discriminatory and stereotypical perceptions of foreigners remain in the news. This study ...
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