Arts Research Africa (ARA) is a space where we can collectively explore and define Artistic Research in Africa. Supported by the Mellon Foundation at WSOA, Wits
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined October 2018
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"Looking back over the Mellon-funded years of the @ARA_Wits project."
Listen to ARA podcast here: iono.fm/e/1270014 or wherever you get your podcasts. (Just search for the "arts research africa")
In conversation with Prof Brett Pyper, Zanele Madiba & Prof Christo Doherty
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Dear Students,
The Hardship Funding applications are now open and will close on 24 January 2025.
Applications for Special Consideration Hardship Funding will open on 27 January 2025 and close on 12 February 2025. Only students with an average below 50%, but not less than 48%, are eligible to apply.
Applications for Accommodation Hardship Funding will close on 21 February 2025.
More Info: wits.ac.za/study-at-wits/fin…
#WitsForGood
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WITS' BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 🎉 🎉
Witsies, let's do it again: WITS PARADE
Date: 06 October 2023; 12:00
Venue: Braamfontein Campus
Prepare your costumes, banners and bring your Wits Spirit.
Please note Yale Road South will be closed from 12:00-15:00
#WitsForGood #WitsBirthday
ARA2022 Conference Proceedings published 🚨
We have published the 2022 Proceedings as Open Access on the Wits Digital Repository (WiredSpace) under a Creative Commons license.
Please go to @WitsUniversity wiredspace.wits.ac.za/collec… to see the entire collection.
#ARA2022
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#DebutProgramme Applications are now open.
See application details here 👇🏾
#HeyFriend: The Debut Programme is your ticket to unleashing your entrepreneurial potential!
The programme offers the tools, mentorship, and connections necessary to turn your art into a successful business.
Latest ARA podcast is up
Link: iono.fm/e/1356360
Prof Christo Doherty speaks to Prof Bruce Barton, a leading international experts on Artistic Research & Performance-as-Research who has just attended the PSi Conference at The Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg. #ARA23
The latest ARA podcast 🚨
Prof Christo Doherty speaks to the Wits Film & TV staff member, artistic researcher, writer and filmmaker, Prof Tanja Sakota.
Available at iono.fm/e/1342053 or wherever you get your podcasts.
Tanja has just published a new book with @WitsPress
The latest ARA podcast is available at iono.fm/e/1321652 or on any of the popular podcast platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts etc.
Prof Christo Doherty, speaks to Doris Bloom, the multidisciplinary South African/Danish artist. #ARA23
New ARA podcast is available at iono.fm/e/1313389
Prof Christo Doherty @WitsUniversity speaks to Dr Sela Adjei, a multidisciplinary artist, researcher & curator from Ghana.
We explore Sela’s journey as an artist & researcher & the studies that led to his PhD #ARA2023
New ARA podcast is up!
A fascinating discussion between Prof Christo Doherty & Jayne Batzofin, the digital archivist on the Reimagining Tragedy from African & the Global South (RETAGS) project.
Available at iono.fm/e/1300576 or wherever you catch your podcasts. #ARA2023
African Feminisms (Afems) 2023 "Our Sisters Killjoy”
6-8 July 2023 at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa
Send abstracts of no more than 250 words by 21 April
More information at afemsconference.wixsite.com/…
ARA podcast 🚨
A discussion between Prof Christo Doherty & Prof David Andrew from @witsfineart about the entanglement of artistic research & arts pedogy in his work - is available at iono.fm/e/1291513 or wherever you get your podcasts. (search for "arts research africa")
Congrats to Dr @cfrenchtweeting , Wits Research Associate (2021 ARA Postdoc Fellow) & Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham, who has won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship from Horizon Europe for her research project titled Dramaturgies for languaging…
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☝🏾 made possible by the Melon Foundation @ARA_Wits
"Looking back over the Mellon-funded years of the @ARA_Wits project."
Listen to ARA podcast here: iono.fm/e/1270014 or wherever you get your podcasts. (Just search for the "arts research africa")
In conversation with Prof Brett Pyper, Zanele Madiba & Prof Christo Doherty
Arts Research Africa retweeted
Here’s some reflections from us.
Have a listen to what @ARA_Wits Project funded by @MellonFdn based at the @WitsUniversity School of Arts has managed to achieve over the years! @Wits_News #WitsResearch
"Looking back over the Mellon-funded years of the @ARA_Wits project."
Listen to ARA podcast here: iono.fm/e/1270014 or wherever you get your podcasts. (Just search for the "arts research africa")
In conversation with Prof Brett Pyper, Zanele Madiba & Prof Christo Doherty
Arts Research Africa retweeted
Pussy Squad spreading #PussyPositivity last night at the @ARA_Wits closing event ✊🏽💜
In this special podcast Prof Christo Doherty speaks to 3 internationally acclaimed/award-winning artists about their creative research into the possibilities of the book as an artwork. Veronica Schapers, Robbin Amy Silverberg & Julie Chen at WAM.
Here: iono.fm/e/1247045
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Director: Bianca Stigter.
A rare colour three minute 16mm home movie shot in 1938 provides the starting point for this extraordinary film about life in Poland before the Holocaust.
Bianca Stigter will join us online in a post screening discussion.
Advancing an understanding of artistic research in Africa thanks to the @MellonFdn funding at the @WitsUniversity in the School of Arts! #MyTwitterAnniversary
