Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gunter, Elizabeth | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Eeden-Wharton, Adrienne | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.other | Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-27T14:20:19Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-28T12:25:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-27T14:20:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-04-28T12:25:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-03 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2020. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 the South African West Coast and seven adjacent islands – sites haunted by violent legacies and unchecked exploitation, where heightened precarity marks the lives of earth others. Shadow places, where the histories of indiscriminate, increasingly systematic killing and destruction – the ‘harvesting’ of whales, seals, seabirds and guano – are intertwined with narratives of settler-colonialism, empire, state control, racial segregation, land dispossession, coercive labour practices, militarisation, and industrialisation. Presently, these sites fall within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) or otherwise restricted-access zones. This inquiry has been shaped, in many and in important ways, by walking the shore – a liminal space of movement and instability, alternately claimed by land and sea; an often-troubled site of shifting boundaries and transition, uncertainty and possibility, fear and transgression, conflict, myth, death and desire. Islands, even more so, are ambivalent spaces of refuge, exile and quarantine; shipwreck and marooning; indentured labour and military occupation; allegory and escapist fantasy. Salt-Water-Bodies is an in/complete, im/possible atlas – neither comprehensive encyclopaedia, nor reliable map. This inherently unfinished work, a postmortem mourning and wit(h)nessing, is characterised by the friction of at the same time following after and along, losing and finding, straying and circling back; of slow praxis in times of urgency and acceleration, and of grappling with the yearning towards more wakefull and just multispecies futures, but not-knowing how to tell stories that are just big enough. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming | af_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Doctoral | en_ZA |
| dc.format.extent | 443 pages : photographs | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/108209 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | South Africa -- Western Province -- Social history | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Exploitation -- South Africa -- Photographs | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | South African West Coast and islands -- Art | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Oceans -- Effect of human beings on -- Photographs | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | UCTD | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |