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Artistic Interventions in the Historical Remembering of Cape slavery, c.1800s
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This mini-thesis thesis intends to grapple with silences by looking the possibilities of reconceptualising archives through notions of “traces,” “absence,” and “fragments.” Examining archives as bodies of knowledge, a ...
'Unearthing' the 'essential' past: The making of a public 'national' memory through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1994-1998
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
At a lecture presented in London on June 5, 1994, Jacques Derrida discussed the complexities of
the meaning of the archive. He described the duality in meaning of the word archive-in terms of
temporality and spatiality-as ...