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Theses and Dissertations (Visual Arts): Recent submissions
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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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(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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(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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(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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(University of Pretoria, 2023-03)The representation of femininity on screen is a frequently explored topic, particularly in the science fiction genre, and has often been referred to as reflecting broader social ideas pertaining to femininity and technology. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Visual Arts, a specialist school subject, is taught in a limited amount of schools in South Africa and contain both practical and theoretical lessons. The lessons and curriculum for this secondary school subject are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This study surveys the emergent artistic phenomenon identified as Crypto Art in relation to a perceived artistic decentralisation immanent to the orientation. Crypto Art delineates an artistic orientation predicated on the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The research aims to prove that illusion is more than just a trick of the eye, but rather a multifaceted tool that can impact meaning and conceptual thought and practice. In this research illusion is understood and defined ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)VISUALISING SOUTHERN AFRICAN LATE IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE studies the visualisation of Southern African Late Iron Age Settlements (LIAS) (c. 900–1800) across the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study explores my experiences as a displaced person through processes of immigration that contributed to my hybrid identity. I narrate my experiences as a white, South African, Afrikaans-speaking woman who was affected ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The artistic phenomenon referred to as ‘mark-making' is a foundational artistic process in creative practice. In this practice based artistic research project, I will explore the relationship between mark-making, freedom ...
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