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Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings
Thesis MA (VA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132546 Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings Johnson, Henri Wills Van Robbroeck, Lize Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. Architecture -- Psychological aspects Art and architecture Historic buildings Haunted places Ghosts -- South Africa Environmental psychology Aesthetics Emotions Phenomenology Personal narratives UCTD Thesis MA (VA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Johnson, H. W. 2025. Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/5a59f1fb-801f-4142-90bb-7f47a5412f95 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research visually explores my embodiment with buildings as I find the experience of them to be seldom acknowledged or only in passing. I am particularly drawn to their haunting and uncanny affects. These affects, or spectral entanglements, engage with the sense of absence and presence, of negative and positive space, of doubling and mirroring,of façades, time and temporalities, shadows and ghosts, loss and yearning, belonging and unbelonging, and traces and palimpsests that are evoked in my daily encounters with familiar and strange buildings. I navigate my perception of buildings through these spectral entanglements that I believe are enmeshed with, and inform, one another. My embodiment with buildings becomes intertwined and also lends itself to the narrative of these entanglements. My research is practice-based and autoethnographic, as I explore my own entanglement with these buildings in the form of this thesis and visual components of my art practice. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar nie. Masters 2025-06-11T06:21:19Z 2025-06-11T06:21:19Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132546 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 198 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Architecture -- Psychological aspects Art and architecture Historic buildings Haunted places Ghosts -- South Africa Environmental psychology Aesthetics Emotions Phenomenology Personal narratives UCTD Johnson, Henri Wills Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings |
| title | Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings |
| title_full | Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings |
| title_fullStr | Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings |
| title_short | Spectral entanglements: An exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings |
| title_sort | spectral entanglements an exploration of the haunting and uncanny affects of buildings |
| topic | Architecture -- Psychological aspects Art and architecture Historic buildings Haunted places Ghosts -- South Africa Environmental psychology Aesthetics Emotions Phenomenology Personal narratives UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132546 |
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