Creative Knowledge Resources, University of Cape Town

About Creative Knowledge Resources, University of Cape Town

Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) is an interdisciplinary project funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the University of Cape Town which seeks to document and study socially engaged art and art interventionism. It also seeks to engage with the pedagogical approaches to art historicism and writing, and is aimed at establishing a collaborative network of artists, cultural practitioners and art historians across Africa. Through professional development and mentorship, CKR seeks to grow scholarship on African socially engaged art. Creative practices have become the site for political discourse, catalysing the necessary debates about belonging, citizenship, race, gender, class and sexuality. Increasing unconventional art forms and socio-cultural interventions in Africa do not only present novel ways of re-thinking the tenets of the art history discipline but also necessitate a careful inquiry of art, politics and social dynamics. The objective is to develop art scholars based on the continent who can generate transnational dialogues and produce theoretical material about socially engaged art and art interventionism. CKR places emphasis on developing art scholarship in African Social Art History and so this project seeks scholars who can form part of a broader network of critical thinkers in the arts. It seeks to develop and collaborate with art writers and art historians through community-centred research.

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