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14 ways to remember Nzira gumi nena dzekuyeuka : exploring and preserving memories

Author: Matindike, Tashinga Date: 2009 My project is one of memorialisation, expressed as a creative process. A core theme throughout my work concerns the notions of absence and presence, as the project is founded on a personal loss and inspired by a desire to sustain the memories ... Read more
A deeper kind of nothing

Author: Abraham, Catherine Date: 2019 'Nothing’1 is frequently associated with insignificance. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, 'to reduce to nothing is to consider or treat as worthless or unimportant’. This project aims to reveal that this form of nothing is, ... Read more
Creation of fictional community

Author: Simonson, Karina Date: 2008 This essay explores how the creation of a fictional community is expressed through my body of work. These works do not reference an actual community as such, but are an "imagining"of a nonexisting one, so that they can be understood as a ... Read more
Homunculi of the Digital City

Author: Minnie, Heinrich Date: 2020 Employing the media of video and installation, Homunculi of the digital city explores what it means to live in a digitally-mediated city. In my work, I personify both the city and city dwellers as cyborgian characters, by drawing on Donna ... Read more
Jazz contacts : envisaging Basil Breakey's photographic remains beyond the archive

Author: Zimmer, Niklas Date: 2012 South African jazz photography, both as a particular instance of visual history and as a local site for an international photographic genre is largely under-researched. In consequence, its iconic trajectory, with its interconnected sets of ... Read more
Mend: a personal exploration of healing

Author: Niederhumer, Gina Date: 2016 As the title suggests, this dissertation text deals with repair, and while 'mending' also refers to sewing, here I use it in conjunction with healing and the transformation of an inner conflict. Coming from a family of embroiderers in Austria ... Read more
Mis-education : subversion of female roles in Catholic religious depictions

Author: Gulab, Nalisha Date: 2005 Read more
Not today, but tomorrow.

Author: Nesbitt, Robyn Date: 2010 'Not today, but tomorrow', the title of this body of work, references a collection of daily lists I assembled during my first year of the Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) programme. I had written 'not today but tomorrow' on one of my Monday lists ... Read more
The pioneering spirit in the face of mystery : a creative exploration of phenomena pertinent to the information age in a systems paradigm

Author: Van Niekerk, Elsabé Date: 2006 My artwork deals with the experience and concept of 'mystery' - mystery that inspires awe - and sometimes fear - and that is located beyond the known. The sublime is one area where I experience mystery intensely. Immanuel Kant, an important ... Read more
Reprocessing interference : an artistic exploration of the visual material generated by interference

Author: Rynn, Sarah Date: 2006 My body of work is concerned with the constructed promise of telecommunication - that is, the promise to connect people all over the world via telephone lines, computer networks and, most recently, satellite signals. The development of and ... Read more
Revisiting the future

Author: Dooley, Jeffrey Date: 2013 Revisiting the future re-examines some ideas of the Italian Futurist painters Boccioni, Balla, Carra, Russolo and Severini. These ideas included multiplied sensations and states of mind, interpenetration and superimposition, lines of force, ... Read more
Seeing what is not there: figuring the anarchive

Author: Zaayman, Carine Date: 2019 Absences in archives render as impossible access to the fullness of the past. Yet, within the post-apartheid sociopolitical milieu, demands are made of the slivers of evidence in colonial archives to yield more than they contain, to provide ... Read more
Through the garden fence

Author: Robins, Kathy Date: 2016 This project attempts to tie together different threads of my experience. It begins with the memory of looking through the garden fence and hedge of my childhood and considers the simultaneously separate and enmeshed lives of my immediate ... Read more