Programme
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Day 1 - Online
| Day 1: Online (Wednesday, 14 September) | |||
| Panels | |||
| Time | Name | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official ARA2022 Conference opening - 08:20 - 08:30 | |||
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Kamogelo Molobye (Wits University), Nomcebisi Moyikwa (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Pumelela Nqelenga (University of Cape Town), Nondumiso Msimanga (Wits University), Billy Langa (Independent Artist) | "Home is where the heart is": locating and centering home as a space and site for pedagogic and creative knowledge production | Click here |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Brett Pyper (Wits University), Munyaradzi Chatikobo (Wits University), Kgomotso Moshugi (Wits University), Lakin Morgan Baatjies (University of Pretoria), Oladele Ayorinde (Wits University) | From Cosmopolitanism to Cosmology and Back Again: The Emergence of a Practice-Centred South African Jazz Collective, 2020-2022 | Click here |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Sumangala Damodaran (Ambedkar University Delhi), Ari Sitas (University of Cape Town), Dilip Menon (Wits University), Bronwyn Clacherty (University of Cape Town), Janie Cole (University of Cape Town), Cara Stacey (North-West University), Sazi Dlamini (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Mark Aranha (Wits University), Brett Pyper (Wits University) | Performing as Knowing : Reflecting on the Recentring AfroAsia project’s musical modes of enquiry | Click here |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Nontobeko Ntombela (Wits University), Clarissa Diniz (UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Sinethemba Twalo (Wits University), Greer Valley (Wits University), Boitumelo Tlhoaele (Wits University) | The Curatorial as Pedagogy, On Methodologies and Processes | Click here |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Jonathan Noble (University of the Free State), Anita Szentesi (Wits University), Sandra Felix (Wits University), Stefan Winter (Film University Babelsberg) | Practice-based research in Architecture | Click here |
| Tea break: 11:30 - 11:45 | |||
| 11:45 - 13:15 | Kathryn Smith (SU Visual Arts), Fritha Langerman (UCT Michaelis), Mehita Iqani (SU CREST), George Mahashe (UCT Michaelis), Christo Doherty (Wits University), Diaa Ahmed Mohamed Ahmedien (Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt) | Art-Science: Traversing knowledge paradigms towards research innovation? | Click here |
| 11:45 - 13:15 | Renan Ribeiro Moutinho (Colégio Pedro II, Brasil), Brett Pyper (Wits University), Pedro Mendonç (Colégio Pedro II, Brasil), Caroline Lima Souza de Lucen (PROPED-UERJ), Juliana Freire (Quilombist School Dandara de Palmares), Lucas Assis da Costa (Quilombist School Dandara de Palmares), Felipe de Sousa Carneiro (aka Nyl MC), Andre dos Santos Junior (aka Pirigo DJ), Mark Aranha (Wits University) | Sound praxis music exchange project (South Africa – Brazil), April 2022 | Click here |
| Lunch 13: -15 - 14:00 | |||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Moses Nii-Dortey (University of Ghana, Legon), N. Laryea Akwetteh (University of Toronto, Canada), Adwoa Arhine (University of Ghana, Legon), Ọbádélé Kambon (University of Ghana) | Research through material cultures and indigenous performance | Click here |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Atul Bhalla (Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi), Premjish Achari (Shiv Nadar University), Anchia Anzi (Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities), David Andrew (Wits University) | Qualities of artistic research in the Global South: Confrontations and Proximities | Click here |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Vivien Marcow-Speiser (Lesley University & Wits University), Manola-Gayatri Kumarswamy (Wits University), Celeste Snowber (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Refiloe Lepere (Tshwane University of Technology), Giselle Ruzany (Independent Artist), Malika Ndlovu (Independent Artist) | Bodies of Work, Bodies at Work | Click here |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Alex Arteaga (University of the Arts Helsinki), Mika Elo (University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland), Dieter Mersch (Zurich University of the Arts), Nkiru Nzegwu (Binghamton University, New York) | Decolonizing thinking: artistic research as epistemic critique | Click here |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Samuel Ravengai (Wits University), Aja Marneweck (University of the Western Cape), Alexander Damianisch (Vienna University of Applied Arts), Hans.L.Ramduth (Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius), Leena Ramduth (Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius) | Reports on Postgraduate programmes in Artistic Research | Click here |
Day 2 - Online
| Day 2: Online (Thursday, 15 September) | ||||
| Papers, performance demonstrations, exhibitions & film screenings | ||||
| Time | Name | Title | Format | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Néka Da Costa (Wits University) | Surveying the Self: mobilising embodied artistic research to reclaim and reframe disability narratives in a Theatre and Performance department in Johannesburg | Paper | Click here |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Bhekani Eugene Buthelezi (University of Zululand) | Indigenization of the music curriculum: Maskandi Musicians as a possible answer to the shortage of resources at tertiary level | Paper | Click here |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Slindile Mthembu (Wits University) | Intersections: Theorising black/African feminist theatre aesthetic (through) in the writing and theatre-making process of IGAMA? | Paper/Performance | Click here |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Hedwig Barry (Wits University), David Andrew (Wits University) | A return to Practices and Pedagogies – artistic research as untethering and foraging | Paper | Click here |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Rangoato Hlasane (Wits University) | Sesasedi sa Tsodio | Paper/Screening | Click here |
| Short break: 10:00 - 10:15 | ||||
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Smangaliso Ngwenya (Wits University) | Fragmented Scribbles – Moving towards movement, dance and choreography grounded in the embodied Ecosomatic Paradigm | Paper/ Performance | Click here |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Angela M. Mosley (The Institute of Doctoral Studies of Visual Arts (Portland, Maine - USA), Valentina Migliarini (University of Birmingham, England) | All But the Burden: Writing A Globalized Art Performative Using a DisCrit Perspective | Paper | Click here |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Leora Farber (University of Johannesburg) | The scientific lab as studio/the studio as scientific lab: exploring practice-led artscience collaborations in a decolonial context | Paper | Click here |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Manoko Francisca Tlhako (AFDA Cape Town) | A stamp of existence! | Performance Demonstration | Click here |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Gwenneth Miller (University of South Africa) | Under the surface | Paper/Exhibition | Click here |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Giulia Casalini (Roehampton University), Niya B, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (Independent Artists) | I Am Here | Paper/Exhibition | Click here |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Dominique Lämmli (Zurich University of the Arts) | Art in Action Research (AiAR): The integration of tacit knowledge in research | Paper | Click here |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Kim Gurney (University of Cape Town & University of the Western Cape) | Epistemic disobedience: Institution-building as artistic practice | Paper | Click here |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Myer Taub (Wits University) | Bad writing the failed state & Three Jerusalems: Provocation in narratives of research making & walking | Paper | Click here |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Mandla Mlangeni /Afrikan Freedom Principle (Wits University) | Elusive dreams in Egoli: Pathways To Light | Paper/Film Screening | Click here |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Kristina Johnstone (University of Pretoria) | Articulating a movement pedagogy in retrograde: mapping an embodied research process | Paper | Click here |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Evans Netshivhambe (Wits University) | Composing from an embodiment perspective | Paper/ Performance demonstration | Click here |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Tanja Sakota (Wits University) | Finding my voice in practice-based Research - Looking at Shattered Reflection: a story in three parts | Paper/Film Screening | Click here |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Mwenya Kabwe (University of Cape Town & Wits University) | Priority Mail: Virtual Residency, Analogue Exchange and Diasporic Creative Practices of Care | Paper | Click here |
| Lunch break 12:45 - 13:30 | ||||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Kgomotso Moshugi (Wits University) | Baptising a Western hymn into an African setting through arranging as creative practice | Paper | Click here |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Joe Turpin (Pratt Institute, New York) | Artwork Production in Response to Specific Historical Research in West Africa | Paper/Exhibition | Click here |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Brigitta Stone-Johnson (Wits University) | The body is absent: A filmic and performative presentation | Paper/ Performance | Click here |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Mocke J van Veuren (Wits University), Prince Massingham, Neo Monyamane & The Beehive Participants (Independent Artists) | Lekker Geswitch: Waking up The Beehive, a collective film project in Kliptown | Screening & Dialogue | Click here |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Tracey Rose (Wits University) | “Rock Starra” - Tracey Rose Studio in KAB20, The Kampala Biennale 2020 “Get Up Stand Up” curated by Simon Njami | Paper | Click here |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Zen Marie (Wits University) | Paradise Fallen Blaxis: Film screening | Screening & Dialogue | Click here |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Alexander Damianisch (Vienna University of Applied Arts) | Understanding Artistic Research Together: About an exhibition on artistic research of getting together, on transforming understanding and understanding transformation to make a difference | Paper | Click here |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Jayne Batzofin (University of Cape Town) | Archiving as Artistic Practice | Paper | Click here |
| Short break 15:30 -15:45 | ||||
| 15:45: - 16:15 | Hamish Mabala Neill (Wits University) | From ABC to SRHR and selfies: a way to teach SRHR to Gen Zs in South Africa | Paper | Click here |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Yasmine Sami Hassan El-Filally (Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt) | Using Biophelic Designs in Therapeutic Process | Paper | Click here |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Same Mdluli (Wits University) | South African corporate and private art collections as interlocutors of shared knowledge, accessibility and inclusive narratives | Paper | Click here |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Warren Nebe (Wits University), Bongile Lecoge-Zulu (Wits University), Moeketsi Kgotle (Wits University), Jermaine Johnson (Wits University), Tlotlego Gaogakwe (Maru-a-Pula, Botswana) | When Things Fall Together: A Performance as Research Project in a time of Catastrophic Pandemic | Performance Demonstration | Click here |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | ‘Tosin Kooshima Tume (Rhodes University) | Cultural Integration for State Identity in Nasarawa State’s Choreographic Approach to NAFEST Danceturgy | Paper | Click here |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Sarah Samir Ali Nassar (Egypt) | The Combination of the Artistic Elements in Creative Design to Enhance the Neuroplasticity | Paper | Click here |
| 17:15 - 17:45 | Lindelwa Pepu (University of Zululand) | Re-imagining the role of female players in the making, restoring and preservation of the uhadi | Paper | Click here |
| Short break 17:15 - 17:30 | ||||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Ben Spatz (University of Huddersfield, UK), Tegan Bristow (Wits University), Christo Doherty (Wits University), Huda Tayob (University of Manchester), Catalina Mejia Moreno (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London) | Peer review and assessment of Artistic Research | Panel | Click here |
Day 3 - Physical
| Day 3, onsite - Friday, 16 September - Wits Sports Centre | ||||
| Time | Name | Format | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Lucy Draper-Clarke (Wits University), Welma De Beer (Wits University) | Paper | Mas’phefumle: Breathing together through Trauma using Healing Arts Practices and Pedagogy | Click here |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Jonathan Kaseke (Independent Artist) | Paper | The Dissemination & Archiving Of Artistic Research | Click here |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Michelle Stewart (University of KwaZulu-Natal) | Paper | "Ghostly Imprints": Revisiting the death mask in digital clay | Click here |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Mocke J van Veuren (Wits University), Nelisiwe Xaba (Independent Artist) | Performance Demonstration | Fake N.E.W.S – Faking it and making it in the Digital Upside-Down | Click here |
| Short break: 10:30 - 10:45 | ||||
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Matsimela Mogashane (Tshwane University of Technology) | Paper | The centrality of costume as performative commentary: A case study of Mary Sibande’s Sophie | Click here |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Bailey Snyman (Wits University) | Paper | Articulating Embedded Choreographies: Implicit knowledge as/and choreographic strategies | Click here |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Dirk Bahmann (Wits University) | Paper/exhibition | Making atmospheres: Tacit knowledge and artistic research in architecture | Click here |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | Drama for Life Theatre Company (Wits University) | Performance demonstration | Let’s Play Covid Covid | Click here |
| Lunch break | ||||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Lawrence Agbetsise (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland) | Paper | Informality paradigms in artistic research in Africa: philosophy, progression and prospects for integration | Click here |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Tshego Khutsoane (Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative - FATC), Petro Janse van Vuuren (Wits University), Les Nkosi (Community Capacity Enhancement - CCE) | Paper & Performance demonstration | The Redemptive Theatre Experiment: When the Performance Is in the Silence | Click here |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Raezeen Wentworth (University of Cape Town/ AFDA Cape Town) | Paper | To Live Coloured: An Autoethnographic [En]counter with Futurity | Click here |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | David Andrew (Wits University) | Paper | The Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) Un/chrono/logical Timeline of His/tories of Arts Education: from the Wits School of Education to Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany | Click here |
| Short break: 15:30 - 15:45 | ||||
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Fiona Ramsay (Wits University) | Performance/Paper | The relevance of portraying Tennessee William's women in South Africa | Click here |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | The Drama for Life Theatre Company (Wits University) | Performance demonstration | Izwi | Click here |
| 17:15 - 17:45 | Jessica Oliphant (Independent Artist) | Performance demonstration | Shoelaces Unravelling | Click here |
| Cosmology social event: 18:00 - 19:30 | ||||