Browsing Arts Research Africa Conference 2020 Proceedings by Title

Browsing Arts Research Africa Conference 2020 Proceedings by Title

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  • Addressing Artistic Research at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Mauritius: Challenges for a Small Island Developing State in Africa 
    Ramduth, Hans (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    Can small island contexts, through the extreme simplification of more complex processes that occur on the continents (e.g., ecocide), provide unique insights into binaries such as artist versus researcher, fiction versus ...
  • African Spiritual Healing in Drama Therapy: An Exploration of Movement and Sound as a means of Facilitating Healing 
    Siko, Zanele (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    Can African spirituality in African dance be used as a means of facilitating the healing of women’s trauma? This performance explores the possibilities of fusing Credo Mtwa’s notion of African spirituality with the ritualistic ...
  • Applied Improvisation in Africa: Facilitating Embodiment Work in Online Rooms 
    Apotieri-Abdulai, Oluwadamilola; Janse Van Vuuren, Petro (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    An important aspect of Applied Improvisation is using and perceiving the body and those of others in the room. Can adaptations be made to enable embodied work online without jeopardising impact? In this workshop, we present ...
  • Artistic Research and African Musical Performance: Listening Beyond Euro-American Canons 
    Pyper, Brett (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    Are certain forms of African music-making inherently advantaged or disadvantaged through engagement with artistic research? How does the quest to advance decoloniality factor into such efforts? What does such belated ...
  • Artistic Research and the Institution: A Cautionary Tale 
    Fleishman, Mark (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    What impact do the specific institutional contexts in which we produce research have on the artwork? What would an ethical approach to the work of art-making entail with reference to these institutional pressures/distortions?
  • Artistic Research as African Epistemology 
    Stolp, Mareli (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    Can artistic research be understood as an African epistemology? Through a mapping of the field of African epistemology together with the key notions of artistic research, this paper argues for the decolonising potential ...
  • Artistic research in Africa with Specific Reference to South Africa and Zimbabwe: Formulating the Theory of Afroscenology 
    Ravengai, Samuel (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    How can artistic research offer the opportunity to create knowledge based on African practice and produced from the African context? This presentation will delineate seven approaches to artistic research and argue for ...
  • Artistic Research in Music as Doctoral Study: Challenges and Opportunities for Universities in South Africa 
    Sandmeier, Rebekka (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    What are the opportunities and challenges of doctoral studies in South Africa, in music, through artistic research? What are the definitions of research— specifically artistic research—in the existing educational policies, ...
  • Closing Address: Artistic Research in Africa - rethinking the "avant-garde" 
    Deribew, Berhanu Ashagrie (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    In order to implement artistic research in Africa need to recognize the different contexts - cultural, political and institutional – on our continent; and that artistic research is a subject not yet full clear in its ...
  • Creating New, Previously Unknown Outcomes: Joy by and by Remade 
    Moshugi, Kgomotso (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    How can new knowledge be produced through processes of musical arrangement that have not traditionally been canonised? Through analysis of the versions of the hymn Joy By and By, which local arrangers have created since ...
  • Creative Practice and Research: An Artist-Scholar Perspective 
    Stewart, Michelle (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    How do measurable methods of research move between theoretical critique, technical reporting and creative practice? This question is explored with reference to her own practice-based PhD, the experimental animation, Big Man.
  • Cultural Kasi’preneur 
    Motholo, Dimakatso (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    How are a new generation of South African cultural entrepreneurs decolonising the perception of what education/knowledge means as they produce other forms of learning, success and survival in the township? This hybrid ...
  • Darkness after Light: A Visual Portrait of Lefifi Tladi 
    Senong, Kolodi (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    Can the politics, art, and ideas of a complex figure such as the thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, be explored through a series of portrait studies? Through a series of mixed media and graphic portraits, I seek to ...
  • Dear Irreducibility’ … Approximating Uncertainty as a Queer Ethics of Relations 
    Athene, Nico (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    This performance-lecture explored embodied, relational practice as an experiential site of queer, non-exploitative modalities.
  • Decolonial AestheSis Parcours 
    Khan, Sharlene; Asfour, Fouad (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    The Decolonial AestheSis Parcours is made up of exercises informed not only by recent theories around decolonial aestheSis, but by Black and African Feminist creativities, Critical Race Theories, postcolonial histories, ...
  • Dream Translation and African Artistic Research 
    Jacobs, Jason (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    Can dreams provide new ways of representing the postcolonial brown male body in contemporary theatre? When devising the performance, Ek was in die skemer, my body (and the memories contained within the body) became the ...
  • Editor's Introduction - Arts Research Africa 2020 Conference Proceedings 
    Doherty, Christo (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    Editor’s overview of the ARA2020 Conference. Explanation for the strategic emphasis on pan-African outreach, and the conference theme of “How does artistic research decolonise knowledge and practice in Africa?” Justification ...
  • Educational Emcees in the Academy: Spoken Word Poetry as Scholarly Praxis 
    Endsley, Crystal; Keith, Antony (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    This new form of scholarship explores the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological possibilities for spoken word poetry to function as a social justice pedagogy and leadership praxis. Collectively, this research situates ...
  • Engaging with Sound Writing 
    Liebenberg, Visser (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    How can forms of sound writing be used for a project in artistic research? Based on the author’s own experimentation with sound writing for the clarinet, this paper argues that sound writing is a manner of engaging with ...
  • Exposure to the Unknown: Artistic Research in the European Sphere 
    Winter, Stefan (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
    What are the core competencies that be unfolded by artistic research? What are its interfaces with science and technological development? What can artistic research contribute to the transformation of societies? This paper ...

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