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    Full Proceedings - Arts Research Africa Conference 2020
    (Arts Research Africa (ARA), 2020) 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 (ARA), 2020) 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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    Creative practice and research: an artist-scholar perspective
    (Arts Research Africa (ARA), 2020) 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 (ARA), 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.
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    Artistic research and African musical performance: listening beyond Euro-American canons
    (Arts Research Africa (ARA), 2020-07) Pyper, Brett
    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 recognition mean for African musics and more general African arts practice outside academia?
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    Finding the lost fishermen: a study in recovery and performance as preservation
    (Arts Research Africa (ARA), 2020-07) Nii-Dortey, Moses
    This paper engages what strategic/ethical research options can be deployed for preserving, performing and documenting artworks such as The Lost Fishermen, a dying folk opera, which is arguably one of Ghana’s most successful musical artworks, created by Saka Acquaye in the immediate aftermath of Ghana’s political independence.
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    A PhD in Practice-based Design Research in Architecture at Wits University
    (Arts Research Africa (ARA), 2020-07) Felix, Sandra
    How does the new PhD in practice-based design research in the School of Architecture at Wits position itself? This paper is an account of the author-practitioner’s exposure to the long history of engagement with design research in the school through the example of architects such as Pancho Guedes and others.
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    Editor's Introduction - Arts Research Africa 2020 Conference Proceedings
    (Arts Research Africa (ARA), 2020-07) Doherty, Christo
    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 provided for the experimental format-architecture of the conference, and the use of “performance-lectures” as a new genre of conference presentation.
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    The translated landscape: interpreting South Africa through Jewellery Praxis
    (Arts Research Africa (ARA), 2020-07) Groenewald, Joani; van der Wal, Ernst
    Can a landscape function as a visual text that could, in turn, be translated through various multimodal practices? Through an account of Groenewald’s own creative practice, which translates landscape images into jewellery/sculptural pieces, this paper unpacks the complexities of translation and language within the memory politics of the South African landscape.
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    Addressing artistic research at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Mauritius: challenges for a Small Island Developing State in Africa
    (Arts Research Africa (ARA), 2020-07) Ramduth, Hans
    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 non-fiction, and art-making versus writing?