Brett Pyper - Listening made visible: Performing aurality in South African diga jazz dance
This project was pursued in tandem with the planning of the “JOBACCT / Cosmology” residency and public humanities activities, and was considerably advanced by the high levels of participation on the part of dancers affiliated with various jazz appreciation networks from townships to the North, East and West of Pretoria / Tshwane.
Jeremy Wafer - Pallet
A work proposed for the Gardiner Haskins building Bristol UK as part of the Centre of Gravity project September 2020. An extension of the Bristol exhibition, a further new work will be presented on an exhibition at the Goodman Gallery Cape Town.
Lieza Louw - St Cuthbert’s This is What I like 足球竞彩app排名 my Place.
This project enables elders from a rural area to voice their experiences which speaks to the third pillar of the values underwriting the values of the university: social justice and outreach. Rural histories and very valuable fragments of living heritage are lost when artistic research focuses on urban narrative expressions only.
Manola Gayatri-Kumarswamy- Kanchi and the Oceans Bellow: ethics and eros on artistic research
The artistic project is a performance and writing based creative work that uses the Oceans, Fluidity Queer Desire as it’s material, conceptual and sensory impulses. Primarily a writing and performance project it is also visually informed and musically reinforced. It is developed from various inspirations I had with encounters on the shores and in the waters of the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean while also waiting for visas, communicating digitally with co-artists and thinker, swimming in the sea and pools with queer feminists, grieving ancestral, national, transnational political and personal losses and ?nally by having a transformative spiritual encounter with sperm whales while in Johannesburg in July 2020.
Same Mdluli – Traversing the rural: Revisiting the works of South African artist Johannes Mashego Segogela.
The project is a publication of the artist Johannes Segogela as part of an extension of my PhD thesis. The book will be the first publication which focuses on Segogela’s oeuvre and biography and raises critical questions around the visual art production of Black African artists once labelled as ‘transitional’ by virtue of being situated in the peri-urban and so called ‘rural’ locales. The publication series is an attempt at developing scholarly interest and writing in the artistic practices that challenge western epistemological frameworks of understanding art and expression.
Mwenya Kabwe - The Great Disappearance
This project deploys Shailja Patel’s articulation of migritude as a “philosophical meditation on what it means to live within the concept of Migrant” and develops what can be understood as a migrant attitude towards making contemporary African theatre and performance work. The project works with the notion that aesthetic logics of African futurity extend migritude’s investment in a spatiotemporal past and present, forward into an unknown, yet desired future, in other words, beyond a here and now and towards a “then and there”.
Tanja Sakota - Shattered Reflection
This project aims to provide support for colleagues and students working in the domains of film education at the tertiary level as well as subjects in the broader Humanities and Social Sciences who are committed to curriculum transformation. The method of creating a film outcome through the book challenges traditional hierarchies of knowledge where theory precedes practice and the teacher’s knowledge overrides student experiences (consonant with the transmission model); a place where knowledge is generated in the academy over knowledge that is made outside its walls.
Sithembiso Khalishwayo - When We Hit Pause
A multidisciplinary performance incorporating Physical Theatre, music and spoken text as a creative response to the 足球竞彩app排名 pandemic. When We Hit Pause seeks to use the arts to tackle the issues that face society, individuals during 足球竞彩app排名 and the various emotions and reactions that came out from those issues. The show forms as a critical reflective space to engage and challenge various experiences and responses happening within the student community, provincial, national, and international community.
Warren Nebe - A Theatre Writing Project: writing for children, about children, through the lens of children
Writing for children, about children, and through the lens of children is profoundly neglected space in South Africa. It speaks back to how our society consistently silences children and renders them invisible. The power of writing for adults about significant psychological and sociological issues through the lens of children is new terrain. This Theatre Writing Project aims to bring new light to writing for children, about children, through the lens of children. Our intention is to break the legacy of non-published work for young people in South Africa, to publish our work, and to make our work available for educational and theatre production.
Sharlene Khan – When the moon waxes red (2009-2021)
When the moon waxes red (2009-2017) employs filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha, feminist bell hooks and black feminist Audre Lorde’s ideas of ‘bio-mythography’, textured narrativisation and ‘insiderout’/‘outsider-in’ researching methodologies to document personal family stories as they intersect with the larger social histories, in this case, the colonial British Indentured Labour System and apartheid.
Chantal Willie-Petersen, PhD in Music - “The Women Who Raised Us” – Identity, Feminism, and Decolonization among Coloured Women in the Western Cape, South Africa - as studied in musical a political unions during the period 1980 to 1990 - A case study of Dulcie September, Sathima Benjamin and Tina Schouw
Neka Da Costa, PhD in Theatre and Performance - Theatre and Access: activating sense-based, collaborative creative practice with/for disabled and integrated audiences in South Africa
Jessica Foli, PhD in Theatre and Performance - Changing performance narratives of the black female body as a site of trauma: A quest for retribution through the figure of the divine feminine warrior
Linda (Mdena) Thibedi, PhD in Drama Therapy (Drama for Life) - Bodies in crisis: exploring how the body, as a tool for a healing pedagogy in Arts Therapies, offers insight to emotional, physical and psychological effects of online engagements
Bettina Malcomess, PhD in Film Studies - Moving Image and the Colonial Imagination: Cinemas of instruction and war in Africa, 1896 – 1940. Exhibition Film
Title: The Sentimental Agents
Kgafela oa Magogodi, PhD in Creative Writing - Chilahaebole Mogaga: Play, Power and Purgation
Mocke van Veuren, PhD in Film & Television – Developing Critical Pedagogic Modalities for Moving Image-making as Social Praxis
Zen Marie, PhD in Creative Work research - Paradise Fallen. The Poetics and Politics of Site
Fiona Ramsay, PhD in Theatre and Performance - REFLECTIONS: A study of the archive of my work from 1975 – 2019 focusing on particular investigation into the voice as signifier of performance with creative components of three solo works incorporating outcomes of this investigation
Kenneth Kaplan, PhD in Film & Television - FRACTURES: An Inquiry into the figure of the medical doctor in films set in African conflict zones
Munyaradzi Chatikobo, PhD in Cultural Policy and Management - The role of cultural policy in advancing the community theatre sector in post-apartheid South Africa: An interpretive analysis
Natasha Christopher, PhD in Fine Arts - Welkom to Johannesburg