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Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive

Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/51259 Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive Taub, Myer Rossouw, Esther Alet Visual Culture South Africa Performance Art Gender studies Whiteness studies Media studies UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016. The resurgence of the discussion and practice of performance art in the past thirty years has moved towards the digital age and consequently has been met with a new dimension for exploration: YouTube. This paper investigates a possible reconfiguration of the notion of performance art through the digital archive of performances by South African rap-rave group, Die Antwoord. Utilizing the notions of risk, digital liveness (as posited by Phillip Auslander), and a conceptual dimension of ideas, a distinctive characterization of online performance art is posited. The video archive as conduit, a performative channel of expression, is considered as means of interactive meaning-making processes. This is accomplished by looking at Die Antwoord’s digital archive of YouTube videos and its confrontational content, as well as the responses in the comment section from the YouTube community in order to consider how the archive is reconfigured. Drama Unrestricted 2016-01-26T06:27:46Z 2016-01-26T06:27:46Z 2016-04 2016 Dissertation Rossouw, EA 2016, Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb: How Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive. MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoira, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51259> A2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51259 en © 2016 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 Visual Culture South Africa
Performance Art
Gender studies
Whiteness studies
Media studies
UCTD
Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive
title Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive
title_full Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive
title_fullStr Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive
title_full_unstemmed Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive
title_short Zef as Performance Art on the Interweb : how Ninja from Die Antwoord performs South African White Masculinities through the Digital Archive
title_sort zef as performance art on the interweb how ninja from die antwoord performs south african white masculinities through the digital archive
topic Visual Culture South Africa
Performance Art
Gender studies
Whiteness studies
Media studies
UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51259