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Traces of interaction : a practice-led exploration of ‘makerspaces’ in South African art
Mini Dissertation (MA (fine art))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/96955 Traces of interaction : a practice-led exploration of ‘makerspaces’ in South African art Grobler, NH marika.dutoit@gmail.com du Toit, Marika UCTD Practice-led research Phenomenology Haptic interaction Audience participation Creative practice Makerspace Installation art Material thinking Embodied participation South African contemporary art Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure Humanities theses SDG-09 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Humanities theses SDG-11 Mini Dissertation (MA (fine art))--University of Pretoria, 2024. Recent formulations of the artist-artwork-audience relationship have considered artists as context providers, artistic objects as repositories for ideas and a means to preserve tacit knowledge. Further, audiences have been reconsidered as creating meaning situationally within exhibition spaces. Although, artists are often inclined to present an artist statement, which can be perceived as a singular and ‘correct’ way to interpret art exhibitions, and which may prohibit viewers from trusting their own sense-making capabilities and interpretative skills. An overreliance on exhibition texts could discourage the formation of alternative forms of knowledge through embodied interactions with the work. This practice-led study explores these considerations of an entangled artist-artwork-audience relationship through a participatory approach. The artworks were created with public engagement in mind, and an emphasis placed on inviting physical interventions within the exhibition space. These works were exhibited as invitations for public participation in a series of two exhibitions. Installations of this nature aim to create a space for making, collaboration and creative expression, referred to in this practice-led study as “makerspaces”. After each installation, the artist reflected on and responded to the participants’ interventions as their actions left material residues of embodied participation. The role of the artist within this entangled artist-artwork-audience relationship can accordingly raise questions regarding artistic authority, meaning-making and knowledge production. Processes of creation, destruction, assimilation and erasure were documented and reflected on, following a practice-led methodology. By encouraging the audience to investigate the materials, the traces of others and their actions this creative research aims to provoke critical insights into embodied, material engagement in exhibitions that invite audience interaction without prescriptive instruction. Visual Arts MA (fine art) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities 2024-07-12T09:18:49Z 2024-07-12T09:18:49Z 2024-09 2024-04 Mini Dissertation * S2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96955 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.26233295 en © 2023 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 | UCTD Practice-led research Phenomenology Haptic interaction Audience participation Creative practice Makerspace Installation art Material thinking Embodied participation South African contemporary art Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure Humanities theses SDG-09 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Humanities theses SDG-11 Traces of interaction : a practice-led exploration of ‘makerspaces’ in South African art |
| title | Traces of interaction : a practice-led exploration of ‘makerspaces’ in South African art |
| title_full | Traces of interaction : a practice-led exploration of ‘makerspaces’ in South African art |
| title_fullStr | Traces of interaction : a practice-led exploration of ‘makerspaces’ in South African art |
| title_full_unstemmed | Traces of interaction : a practice-led exploration of ‘makerspaces’ in South African art |
| title_short | Traces of interaction : a practice-led exploration of ‘makerspaces’ in South African art |
| title_sort | traces of interaction a practice led exploration of makerspaces in south african art |
| topic | UCTD Practice-led research Phenomenology Haptic interaction Audience participation Creative practice Makerspace Installation art Material thinking Embodied participation South African contemporary art Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure Humanities theses SDG-09 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Humanities theses SDG-11 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96955 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.26233295 |