Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Visual Arts) by Title
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Africa-Lite: cultural appropriation and commodification of historic blackness in post-apartheid fabric and décor design
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past few years, cultural appropriation has gained a degree of notoriety as a buzzword, after emerging into the wider public arena from academic, legal and political discourses. Internationally ... -
The biopolitics of Gugulective against neoliberal capitalism
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In critical and museological practices, a focus on diaspora has not only limited the scope of African art but also neglected a whole discursive field and practical corpus that challenges neoliberal ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The edible museum : exploring foodways as sociomuseological practice in Kayamandi, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Food is one of the most fundamental aspects related to human well-being. The ways in which food moves through community social systems, through foodways, are implicated in complex networks of privilege ... -
An elusive archive : three trans men and photographic recollection
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The archive as mnemonic device and taxonomic structure plays a significant role in the visualisation of identity. This thesis draws on the example of the personal photographic archives of three trans ... -
An exploration of the potential of wordless picturebooks to encourage parent-child reading in the South African context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research study focused on the influence of a participatory project in which wordless picturebooks were used in parent-child joint reading and, more generally, the development of a culture of reading ... -
Investigating the semiotic landscape of the house museum in Stellenbosch, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa as a nation achieved democracy in 1994; however, the country’s institutions of knowledge and power are still grappling with the ways that they can and must facilitate transformation. The ... -
The mark of a silent language : the way the body-mind draws
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis deals with the notion that individuation in drawing provides visible evidence of experiential cognition as embodied action. It asserts that trait as enaction signifies constructive and inventive ... -
Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Salt-Water-Bodies: From an Atlas of Loss is a response, through photomedia(tions) and live art, to material-affective encounters with/in littoral death zones along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean of ... -
Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary Afrikaner ethnic identity is subject to attempts at rehabilitation, which seek to fit Afrikaner whiteness to the post-apartheid milieu. This thesis investigates how popular visual culture, ... -
Setting art apart : inside and outside the South African National Gallery (1895-2016)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTARCT: Setting Art Apart explores practices of exclusion and erasure in the white art world in South Africa. It looks at how art and art spaces, such as the art museum and the art academy were part of a project ... -
Telling places, a photographic exploration
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis and accompanying exhibition explore landscape photography practice within the politically fraught context of the Southern African landscape and equally fraught traditions of landscape ... -
Thinking about, with and through design : a cartography for transformation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Transformation in South African higher education has recently been a topic of major debate. Student protests have given rise to increased awareness of the inherent complexities involved in actively working ... -
Thinking with animals : an exploration of the animal turn through art making and metaphor
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: No abstract available -
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 ... -
A visual and textual re-storying of the diary of Susanna Catharina Smit (1799-1863)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This doctoral project, which involves a thesis and a body of artworks, is a re-storying of the muted voices of three of my female ancestors: my mother, my grandmother and the Voortrekker woman Susanna ... -
Writing white on black : modernism as discursive paradigm in South African writing on modern Black art
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)In this thesis I deconstruct key concepts, terminologies, and rhetorical conventions employed in white South African writing on modern black art. I trace the genealogy of the dominant discursive practices of the apartheid ...
