The zines from the Sex Worker Zine Project are powerful visual and narrative accounts of personal struggles and successes, everyday realities, beliefs, hopes and dreams. These visual stories are crafted around aspects of participants’ lives that they wanted a public…
Arts-based research is being used in and between a variety of fields. From the arts and humanities to the social sciences and health sciences. It is a rapidly expanding methodological approach that is providing opportunities for researchers to conduct studies…
An important undercurrent in the arts-based research projects that I have been involved in has been the relationships that form within a workshop space, and the project’s relationship with other assemblages. In this blog post I will look at ideas…
As I am writing this entry, I have noticed that there are some daytime sounds I hear quite often: the rumbling of the diesel engine of a construction vehicle and the operator’s demolition of a structure; the acceleration of cars…
This image was created to express an idea of what the MoVE project works with through various arts-based research methods.
Over the last several years I have worked on a number of arts-based research projects. These projects participatory arts-based methods in the production of works that have relevance to social research, social engagement, and the advocacy of Sisonke. At the…
Social research is intended, in some way or another, for public consumption. Social research projects (like Bua Modiri, Nelspruit Poster Project, the Zine Project, and Stitching My [HIV] Story Activst Quilt project) are often designed to communicate with publics. Exhibitions…
Volume 44 was a participatory photography project produced with migrant men, women and transgender sex workers in Johannesburg and Musina. The project involved a collaboration between the Market Photo Workshop (MPW), the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS), and…
A point when I started having sustained conversations with people was when we moved into our shops. In my shop, I started painting a mural. The mural which I made in my shop, attempted to work through some of the…
Some of the most insightful moments I have had about Ethiopian and Eritrean activities in Jeppe Street have been from encounters and social events outside of Jeppe Street. At weddings and music festivals, suddenly, if still somewhat restrained, I was…