Arts Research Africa Conference 2020 Proceedings

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Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Arts Research Africa project in the Wits School of Arts consists of a range of activities designed to spark dialogue, stimulate practice, enable research and inspire collective engagement around the question of artistic research in Africa. With over 60 presentations, this first conference on artistic research in Africa, was held at the University of the Witwatersrand in January 2020.

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    Full Proceedings - Arts Research Africa Conference 2020
    (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07) Doherty, Christo
    The full proceedings of the Arts Research Africa Conference 2020, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, from 22 - 24 January 2020. Description: An international conference organised by the Arts Research Africa project in the Wits School of Arts. The conference featured a wide variety of inputs, from traditional conference paper presentations and panels, to performances, interactive engagements and workshops. The conference brought together artists, scholars, and artistic researchers to collectively address the question of artistic research in Africa in the 21st century.
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    Opening Address: Dynamics
    (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07) Schwab, Michael
    Emphasises the changing fabric of knowledge and that artistic research has already had an effect on this fabric. Argues for a historical epistemology, and for unsecured forms of knowledge. Uses the experience of editing the Journal of Artistic Research to explain the challenges in operationalizing this concept of knowledge.
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    Artistic research in Africa with Specific Reference to South Africa and Zimbabwe: Formulating the Theory of Afroscenology
    (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07) Ravengai, Samuel
    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 decolonial imperatives.
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    Creative Practice and Research: An Artist-Scholar Perspective
    (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07) Stewart, Michelle
    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.
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    Perspectives on Practice-led Research in Visual Art at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
    (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07) Hall, Louise
    Drawing from Hall’s own experience with the first Practice-led Research (PLR) PhD in Visual Art at UKZN, this paper argues for the potential of PLR to generate a very particular kind of knowledge based on the dyadic relationship between the artist and the intelligence of materials.