Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive

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dc.contributor.advisor Taub, Myer
dc.contributor.postgraduate Rossouw, Esther Alet
dc.date.accessioned 2016-01-26T06:27:46Z
dc.date.available 2016-01-26T06:27:46Z
dc.date.created 2016-04
dc.date.issued 2016 en_ZA
dc.description Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016. en_ZA
dc.description.abstract The resurgence of the discussion and practice of performance art in the past thirty years has moved towards the digital age and consequently has been met with a new dimension for exploration: YouTube. This paper investigates a possible reconfiguration of the notion of performance art through the digital archive of performances by South African rap-rave group, Die Antwoord. Utilizing the notions of risk, digital liveness (as posited by Phillip Auslander), and a conceptual dimension of ideas, a distinctive characterization of online performance art is posited. The video archive as conduit, a performative channel of expression, is considered as means of interactive meaning-making processes. This is accomplished by looking at Die Antwoord’s digital archive of YouTube videos and its confrontational content, as well as the responses in the comment section from the YouTube community in order to consider how the archive is reconfigured. en_ZA
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dc.description.department Drama en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Rossouw, EA 2016, Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb: How Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive. MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoira, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51259> en_ZA
dc.identifier.other A2016
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51259
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en_ZA
dc.subject Visual Culture South Africa en_ZA
dc.subject Performance Art en_ZA
dc.subject Gender studies en_ZA
dc.subject Whiteness studies en_ZA
dc.subject Media studies en_ZA
dc.subject UCTD
dc.title Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive en_ZA
dc.type Dissertation en_ZA


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