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Mosako, Daniel Rankadi(Unisa Art Gallery, 2024-09-14)
Art has always served as a mirror reflecting the depths of the human experience, and that reflection frequently highlights the complex and multidimensional aspects of a global situation on mental health. My path as an ...
This OER is based on a workshop designed for educators teaching music as part of the CAPS Life Skills/Creative Arts syllabus. The questions can be used as a guide for open class discussions or as prompts for online discussion ...
Digital technology and its associated cultures have profoundly impacted art
practice, leading to the emergence of posthuman identity and artistic forms that
blur the boundaries of art ontologies. Examining key posthuman ...
Women’s Day (9 August) a reminder of the tenacity, resilience, and power of South African women. This performance is part of the University of Pretoria’s weekly Lunch Hour Concerts, where leading musicians (local and ...
Mosako, Daniel Rankadi; Mosako, Daniel Rankadi; Mosako, Daniel Rankadi(UNISA FLORIDA CAMPUS, 2023-11-30)
The Phylogenetic Tree of Life sculpture titled uMthimkhulu We Mpilo is a dynamic public art that explores the evolution of life and the interconnectedness of life organisms. This artwork is a visual representation of the ...
Netshivhambe, Evans Ntshengedzeni(National Theatre of Ghana-Performance Premiere, 2023-10-27)
The Malende dance composition, in particular, serves as a symphonic realisation of this cultural borrowing. Delving into the rich heritage of Malende rhythmic strata, the composer selects a specific pattern that stands as ...
Many artists from rural areas in the global south are driven by the functionality of the art object and of naturalism in communicating the urgency of redressing sociopolitical conditions. This article does not advocate a ...
In William Kentridge’s The refusal of time (2012), comment on time as both a scientific and a human entity is produced. A complex mix of the visual and nominal vocabularies of early ‘rudimentary’ technological invention, ...
The trope of boat figures centrally in Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's travelling public artwork, Rubber duck (2007–2016); in the media images of migrant refugees arriving at European destinations by boat since 2015; and ...
Die stedelike panoramas van die Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Titus Matiyane (geb. 1964) − ’n eietydse buitestanderkunstenaar − is ’n waardevolle bron vir die bestudering van die begrippe geokartering en flânerie in eietydse ...
This presentation introduces a series of modules on Western Art Music in History and Society offered at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Aimed at Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts students, the modules provide ...
The approach of this research was conducted via an Anthropogenic Anthropological voice focusing on the life, death, life cycles of nature and culture within the Urban Anthropocene and the impact this have on non-human kin. ...
This practice-based study sets out to identify creative triggers found in
contemporary children’s picture books that encourage playful approaches in
readers with a view to them applying their imaginations as they navigate ...
In the global art market, art fairs have become very popular art events. This thesis examines whether and how major art fairs in South Africa empower visual artists at the grassroots level. The study used practice-based ...
This dissertation sets out to find the ways in which contemporary performance artists problematise and resist the iconoclasms found in modernist landscape paintings.
The landscape paintings of Maggie Laubser, J.H. Pierneef ...
This study investigated the performance management system practices in Ghanaian university
libraries to develop a framework for implementing an integrated performance management system
for university libraries. The study ...
The recent trend in removing statues of controversial figures from history prompts a need to consider a revisionist approach to studying publicly sited artworks, particularly when the social dynamic engages public art in ...
As a professional bass player and teacher I have experienced various instances of musicians interacting with one another in a group setting. These interactions varied from school ensembles,
music students at a tertiary ...
Although this paper focuses largely on the Anthropocene, it is not about the local or global
dangers of climate changes and escalation of pollution. It is about the diverse responses of
selected artists and humanists ...