The painting process involves a lot of experimentation. It involves thinking and sensing through the handling of materials in various configurations. These materials, and their compositions and combinations, offer opportunities to explore and sense aspects of the world. In the…
Art-making and consumption entail materially embedded thinking and feeling processes. Through art we experience the world anew, sometimes seeing details that were previously unseen, or learning something previously unknown. My work looks at the formation of environments and of cities.…
Writing is an important aspect of the reflexive praxis of my working life. All of my projects have incorporated practice-based research within the process in some way or another, and I have explored the practice-based research through a written theoretical…
This piece was originally published on the Bua Modiri project website. Workshops constitute profound lived experiences and moments of making-thinking in the world. Workshops, which are both planned and improvised encounters, entail a high degree of non-linearity in the…
I offered creative consultation services to the Creative Change Laboratory (CCoLAB) in which I helped the project members curate and install a majour end-of-project exhibition. The job of a curator is to make relationships occur which could otherwise remain invisible,…
In the MoVE 2017 Exhibition, we featured two different arts-based MoVE projects: the Nelspruit Poster Project, which is a project which in later years transformed into the sticker project named Bua Modiri, and Izwi Lethu, a long term newsletter project.…
In the introduction of the Handbook of Arts-Based Research Patricia Leavy (2017) lists various properties of arts-based research. One of these properties is that arts-based research methods are open to participation. Arts-based research methods, and the projects they occur within, require participation.…
For the last few years I have been working with an idea that while paintings can relay a subject matter through an image, they are also bodies that have an influence on the bodies around them. In this sense I…
The project titled Stitching our [HIV] Stories: Activist Quilts by Sisonke Sex Workers is an arts-based project which was conducted in 2016 in a collaboration between The MoVE Project at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), and the…
In this post I make some initial notes of a mechanism employed in various MoVE projects: namely, the interfacing of the social constructs of the public and the private. How the public/private distinction was used in past projects The first…