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An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/29259 An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks Dreyer, Elfriede magdel.fourie@gmail.com Fourie, Magdel Suzette Liminality Liminal Transitivity Psycho-geographical Belonging Displacement Colonialisation Immigration Emigration Globalisation Telecommunication Place Home Nomad Transit UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. The global society of today is characterised by global communications, expansive networks and uninterrupted movement of information and people. This study sets out to investigate psycho-geographic liminality, understood as a state of perpetual movement, through the work of selected contemporary South African artists. This liminality is situated between an identity denoted on one hand by fragmentation and fluid change, as a result of transitivity, and on the other hand by a sense of place, which sets up two psychological states, namely displacement and belonging. Transitivity is explored in relation to conditions of post-colonialisation, immigration, emigration and telecommunications within the context of globalisation and is considered in direct in contrast to the concept of place as a physical house, suburb, city or country where one feels 'at home,' denoting a sense of belonging. Through the investigation of relevant theories in sociology, anthropology and philosophy this study proposes that we are in perpetual transit, being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, therefore requiring a new understanding of belonging rooted in a continual flow. Copyright Visual Arts unrestricted 2013-09-07T15:13:50Z 2012-11-12 2013-09-07T15:13:50Z 2012-04-17 2012-11-12 2012-11-05 Dissertation Fourie, MS 2011, An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29259 > F12/4/578/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29259 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11052012-185232/ © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Liminality Liminal Transitivity Psycho-geographical Belonging Displacement Colonialisation Immigration Emigration Globalisation Telecommunication Place Home Nomad Transit UCTD An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks |
| title | An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks |
| title_full | An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks |
| title_fullStr | An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks |
| title_full_unstemmed | An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks |
| title_short | An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks |
| title_sort | investigation into psycho geographic liminality in selected contemporary south african artworks |
| topic | Liminality Liminal Transitivity Psycho-geographical Belonging Displacement Colonialisation Immigration Emigration Globalisation Telecommunication Place Home Nomad Transit UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29259 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11052012-185232/ |