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  • Artistieke oorsprong en oorspronklikheid 
    Potgieter, Frikkie (LitNet Akademies, 2010-03)
    The current worldwide management mania, which also manifests at South African universities, is insensitive towards the creation of a space where the “desire for the unknown” can be pursued. In this article I argue that ...
  • 'Dulle Griet' in seventeenth-century Flemish painting : a risible image of popular peasant culture 
    Van Haute, Bernadette (Acta Academica, 2011)
    This article investigates the representation of "dulle Griet" by the seventeenth-century artists David II Teniers and David III Ryckaert in the context of Catholic Flanders. In a society preoccupied with hierarchical order ...
  • Post-Africanism and contemporary art in South African townships 
    Van Haute, Bernadette (2011-01-12)
    The aim of this paper is to investigate the possibilities offered by Post-Africanism – a new perspective coined by Denis Ekpo and proposed as an alternative to postcolonialism. He defines Post-Africanism as an attempt ...
  • Functionality and social modernism in the work of untrained South African artists 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Routledge, 2012-11-02)
    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 ...
  • Singing the body electric: Real-time and virtual performance 
    Duby, Marc (IASPM, 2013-01-01)
    Bruce Cassidy’s Body Electric appeared briefly in the 1990s in Johannesburg to perform a number of concerts there, including two concerts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Led by the Canadian-born Cassidy and formed ...
  • Black tronies in seventeenth-century Flemish art and the African presence 
    Van Haute, Bernadette (Unisa Press, 2015)
    In this article I examine the production of tronies or head studies of people of African origin made by the Flemish artists Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jan I Brueghel, Jacob Jordaens and Gaspar de Crayer in ...
  • Of clocks ticking: heterotopic space, time and motion in William Kentridge’s The refusal of time (2012) 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Routledge, 2016-09-23)
    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, ...
  • Titus Matiyane, kartograaf en transnasionale flâneur 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Litnet, 2017-02)
    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 ...
  • Rubber ducks and Ships of Fools 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Routledge, 2017-05-12)
    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 ...
  • The Anthropocene Shifts in Visual Arts: A Case against Anthropocentrism 
    Krajewska, Ania (Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-15)
    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 ...
  • Breakfast (On the Edge of the Desert) 
    Duby, Marc (2018)
    Music score to accompany book chapter
  • Relocating the Centre: Decolonising the University Art Collections in South Africa 
    Mkhonza, Bongani (ONCURATING.org, 2021-04)
    The collection of art by South African universities was inherent to colonial practice and central to this was a Eurocentric, colonial logic of classification and justification. As a decolonial project, I argue for the ...
  • Women’s Day Celebration: Celebrating Black South African Female Jazz Composers 
    Mkizwana, Viwe Siyabonga; Mthembu, Mzamo; Mcwabe, Ntsikelelo; Sepuru, Phuti; Motsepe, Nthabiseng; Mcwabe, Ntsikelelo (2023)
    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 ...
  • Malende dance Symphony 
    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 ...
  • uMuthimkhulu We Mpilo 
    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 ...

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