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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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The racialised diet scales of Transvaal prisons : Chinese and Indian prisoner resistance, 1901–1911 (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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04)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 ...
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(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 ...
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(De Gruyter, 2023-09-23)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 ...
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(Intellect, 2023-07)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 ...
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(AIM, 2023)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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-19)The horror genre is very good at evoking an excess of heavy emotions and eliciting intense visceral responses in the viewer. The fourth season of the show titled American Horror Story: Freak Show (Murphy 2014–2015) follows ...
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A critical analysis of the representation of persons with disabilities and disfigurement in ballet (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-05)Bodily difference has long been a social and cultural target of dominant ideologies. Misconceptions and myths regarding beauty, aesthetics and physical, cognitive, emotional and creative capabilities are in part responsible ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11)This study explores the sexual orientation known as asexuality. Asexuality is defined as an identity that encompasses the little or lack of sexual attraction that some individuals experience. Asexuality is not understood ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-06-30)This research explores the rhetorical strategies used in animated poetry to evoke pathos and create resonant viewing experiences. Drawing on the theory of visual rhetoric, the study focuses on the use of metaphor in animated ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The study explores the Basotho food heritage lost due to migration, oral documentation, and religious beliefs. Through my matrilineal exploration, I hope to create an anarchive of traditional recipes that will encompass ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-30)The study investigates Africanfuturism within the broader framework of Afrofuturism through the SS22 collection of MaXhosa Africa to offer a view of the future of Africa by embracing its past. As a secondary aim, the study ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Human beings have been fascinated with the notion of submerging themselves into other spaces since antiquity (Therrien 2014). Immersion has been employed in imagemaking as a strategy to place viewers with, or amongst, ...
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(Routledge, 2024)While sight and hearing have been privileged in the philosophical formulation of aesthetics, the significance of touch to the experience of art has not enjoyed much attention at all. In order to displace sight and reinstate ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The interlocutor assemblage In this practice-led Fine Art research project, I examine how sculptural assemblages created as a form of bricolage and presented in my suburb, Sunnyside, as a multicultural, cosmopolitan, ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2024-06)The demand for children’s reading materials that are representative of the diverse population of South Africa and that address language and affordability issues has given rise to several book creation initiatives by local ...