Scholarly attention to South African studio pottery of the later twentieth century has been negligible, succeeding at best to
provide an overview of its rise in the 1960s, the emergence of a fraternity of studio pottery ...
Cassim, Fatima(School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, 2024)
In this article, I consider the role of storytelling as a civic act, which is made
visible through a reflection on the storytelling processes that informed the
underpinning of a curriculum project showcased during the ...
Roodt, Octavia; Fossey, Natalie(School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, 2024)
This ar ticle locates the practice of creating autobiographical comics
(autobiocomics) as products of autobiographical fiction (autofiction) and
imaginary worlds. Autobiocomics is a comics genre characterised by
imaginative ...
Rath, Kyle A.; Lange, Jacques(School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, 2024)
Writing for design has, over the past few decades, seen steady appreciation.
Literature on design writing refers to it as a mostly technical vocation centred
on the craft of writing in and of itself. Moreover, the ...
Van der Merwe, Marguerite(School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, 2024)
In a diverse student cohort, learning can be designed to encourage belonging
and celebrate identity in the classroom. However, in increasingly international
student cohorts, international students can find themselves ...
Van Eeden, Jeanne(School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, 2024)
Picture postcards originated in the nineteenth century as an efficient, cheap,
and democratic form of mass communication that encompassed many
functions, including entertainment. As bimodal texts, comprising a visual
image, ...
Van Os, Maria; Haese, Adrie; Pretorius, Deirdre(School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, 2024)
Wordless picturebooks are texts that convey a narrative through a series of
images with little or no written information and have gained popularity among
academics, readers, and illustrators. These books have evolved ...
Although space travel is not often discussed in relation to the
environmental crisis, it is proposed here that how the core agent of
space travel, namely the astronaut, is imagined is of cardinal importance
to environmental ...
South Africa is one of the few countries in Africa that no longer criminalises same-sex sexual activity, and
the only one to recognise same-sex marriage under the legal system. Yet, at the same time, several groups in
the ...
Digital memory in the twenty-first century is a complex combination of human and nonhuman elements that interact in various combinations. In an era where environmental devastation is inundating the planet, it is vital to ...
Chizhande, Kudakwashe(University of Pretoria, 2024-02)
Technology has revolutionised the traditional concept of worship and impacted the
understanding of spirituality. The rise of the internet and digital technologies has revolutionised
how individuals interact with each ...
Van Heerden, Ariana(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2023-08)
The void, the abyss, infinite space – an a temporal and a spatial vastness evocative of terror related to the insecurity of precariousness – these descriptors all point equally to reality as well as to myth and metaphor. ...
Du Plessis, Rory(South African Society for Cultural History, 2023-06)
This article commences with an exploration of how the diet scales of the Transvaal
prisons were underpinned by racial discrimination from 1901 to 1911: people of
colour received smaller varieties and quantities of food ...
Annandale, Celeste Margaret(University of Pretoria, 2024-03)
Dance is largely an intangible form of art and knowledge. The fleeting nature of its performance makes the circulation and archiving of this type of knowledge quite challenging. It is difficult to capture its essence in a ...
Kgongoane, Obakeng Omolemo(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-19)
Mining in Africa continues to be a relevant and important endeavour in building up the African economy, however, it is also a site that encapsulates the history, (re-)organisation, and on-going consequences of colonialism, ...
Recent formulations of the artist-artwork-audience relationship have considered artists as context providers, artistic objects as repositories for ideas and a means to preserve tacit knowledge. Further, audiences have been ...
Peffer, Cazlynne(University of Pretoria, 2024-06-14)
Muffled violations is an artistic exploration of the trauma endured by a victim of acquaintance rape. Through qualitative and practice-based approaches, this study argues that viewers may encounter affects of sexual ...
Conservation Science Education Online (CSEO) is a new online resource that shares strategies for
teaching science in art conservation and related cultural heritage fields. An overview will be given of how
undergraduate ...
Authoritarian governments seem to use the same methods of coercion the world over. Recent developments in Belarus and Zimbabwe resonate with this observation. President Alexander Lukashenko prevailed in a deeply flawed and ...
Humans have been fascinated with the notion of submerging themselves
in other spaces since antiquity, or even before. As the contemporary media landscape
seeks to employ newer immersive practices, particularly in today’s ...