Marie, Zen2025-07-212024Marie, Zen. (2024). Paradise Fallen Xenoepistemics: Stopgap Notes on Site-Specificity [PhD thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/45643https://hdl.handle.net/10539/45643A research report submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy, In the Faculty of Humanities, Wits School of Art, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2024Paradise Fallen, Xenoepistemics: Stopgap Notes on Site-Specificity, is a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art that critically engages with the concept of site-specificity through an extended period of practice-based research. Overall, the work is an interrogation of the multiple sites that inform the PhD, as the PhD is itself interrogated as a site of knowledge production. As a form of practice-based postgraduate research, the work consists of a creative component, which includes numerous iterations of performative practice. These installations and exhibitions are accumulated as documentation that is written into, and edited alongside, more fragmentary notes and speculations. There are passages of more conventional scholarship that are included, which are collected from published and unpublished writing across the period of doctoral study. The links to the practical work can be found within the PDF.en© 2024 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.UCTDPractice based researchcreative researchvideo installationlens based practicescreen based practicephotographyvideo artsite specificityrelational aestheticsmeta criticismself reflexivityparatextualitydispositifapparatusxenoepistemicsart schooluniversitysonic interventioncritiqueconvolutesdossiercritical pedagogiescritical epistemologypoesisdecolonial epistemologyThesisUniversity of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSDG-4: Quality education