Arts Research Africa Project

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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.

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    Articulating a Movement Pedagogy in Retrograde: Mapping an Embodied Research Process
    (Arts Research Africa, 2022-09-16) Johnstone, Kristina
    This paper discusses an artistic research project that challenges representationalism in South African contemporary dance. The author argues against the use of discursive methodologies that reinforce colonial scripts and instead proposes an alternative approach based on embodied practices. The paper explores the concept of choreography as embodied research and its potential to align with a decolonial praxis. The research project involves tracing embodied practices and creating a digital cartography to capture and explore these practices. The author also discusses the emergence of a movement pedagogy that unfolds in retrograde and disrupts conventional understandings of time and pedagogical continuity.
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    Movement Improvisation and Real-time Composition as a way to Discover Decolonial Ethical Research Methods
    (Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07) Johnstone, Kristina
    The purpose of this workshop is to offer a view on how the body and movement function as places of inquiry. We explore the question of “what is ethical?”, and by extension, can an “ethical research method” can be discovered by working with one’s own body in relation to other bodies?