Course Outline

Cape Town

Sites of Memory and Archeology

Monday 21st

Art and Democracy. Introduction to the seminar series. Political overview and transition to Democracy. Guest speaker. Ex Robben Island Political Prisoner. Field trip to Robben island

Tuesday 22nd

Visual culture, archeology and public memory: Site visit to District Six Museum.

Wednesday 23rd

Morning: Volatile Alliances: A shift from colonialism, white domination to post-apartheid society. New Limits new Frontiers. Field Trip to South African National Gallery.

Thursday 24th
Morning: Trip to Kayalitsha and arts organizations. Afternoon: Visual culture and ethnicity in a democratic South Africa. An assessment of the context of visual culture in Cape Town.

Afternoon: Discussion and reflection of weeks experience and readings

NOTE: Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be free. Activities to be decided for those who would like to participate are visit to a home to meet South Africans and taste Cape Malay cuisine, a jazz club, wine route, tour of the Cape during the week and over the week-end.

Tshwane University

Week Two:

Monday 28th
Art and Transformation in South Africa. Guest Speaker: Sipho Mdande and panel discussion

Tuesday 29th
Violence: Reality over idealism. Art and Resistance in South Africa (including site visit to Soweto Township, Funda Centre, and Apartheid Museum). Lunch in a Shebeen.

Wednesday 30th
The role of government in the transformation of the Arts and Culture Industry: Steven Sach (Director: Department of Arts and Culture)

Thursday 1st July
The new search for identity: Place-Displacement in the contemporary art world as South African artists. Traditions in a new context including site visit. Field trip: Johannesburg Art Gallery and artists Proof Studio (Guest Speaker: Kim Berman)

Friday 2nd July
Apartheid Monuments. Field trip to Voortrekker Monument and Pretoria Art Gallery, Ndebele Village.

Week 3:
Monday 5th July –
Morning: Traditional South African Art including site visit. Guest speaker: Julia Charlton Gertrude Posal Gallery at University of the Witwatersrand)
Afternoon: Reflection and discussion of previous week and readings

Tuesday: 6th July

New Subjectivities: Frank Ledimo, Usha Seejeram, Presentations by the artists. who else?
The struggle through Apartheid and subjectivities

Wednesday 7th
Guest Speaker: David Koloane

Thursday 8th
Sean O’Toole

Friday 9th to Monday 12th July

Invisible Borders: Site visits to study contemporary art making in Limpopo region and the Thumela archeological site in the Kruger National

Tuesday 13th
Through her, with her and other stories: South African Women artists. (Musician-Nothembi Mkhurebane)
Individual research

Wednesday 14th
Individual research

Thursday 15th
Individual research

Friday 16th
Presentations, closure and responses to the seminar series.

Evening: South African Braai and chilling out.

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