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Thu, 18 Apr 2019 - 14:00
The CCA would like to congratulate the Honours in Curatorship class of 2018 who graduated today!
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 - 16:30
Sana Ginwalla, an Honours in Curatorship student, writes on the Spring Queen documentary and its surrounding archive. As part of the Honours in Curatorship programme she takes the core course Critical Thinking in Curatorship in which the students look at, and critique, different archives and displays each week.
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 - 16:00
Honours in Curatorship student Geena Wilkinson explores the staff exhibition Conversations on at the Michaelis Gallery.
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 - 11:30
Call for Applications NRF Postgraduate Scholarships for Full-time Studies in 2020. If you are interested in doing the Honours in Curatorship course next year here is a funding opportunity!
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 - 15:45
Honours in Curatorship student Nathalie Viruly writes about her experiences walking through the city centre of Cape Town. Focussing on the Slave Monument on Church Square and the memorial benches to Krotoa she explores public art in Cape Town and the how these relate to ideas around rest and womanhood.
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 - 11:45
Towards Freedom II will be on show at:
University of Pretoria, Humanities Foyer, Hatfield campus
1-26 March 2019
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 - 15:45
UCT's Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA) would like to invite interested filmmakers and artists to participate in UNDER THE DOME; an immersive and experimental short film festival that seeks to explore the exciting new possibilities of digital dome projection, while pushing the boundaries of traditional filmmaking techniques and conventions.
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 - 15:30
The Centre for Curating the Archive has had the pleasure of welcoming in the Honours in Curatorship class of 2019. Over the past two weeks we have started to get know the new students and we are excited to introduce them to you.
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 - 15:30
The honours in curatorship students started off the year with a workshop titled "The Biography of an Object". The workshop was run by Nina Liebenberg and Lyndall Cain with guest speakers Bongani Kona and Andrew Juries. Given that this year's honours course focuses largely around object studies the class began by looking at an object close to them in some way.
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 - 12:30
Nadia Kamies, writer and PhD candidate in History and Heritage studies, will be giving the CCA's first Collegian Talk of the year titled: Narratives of Shame, Performances of Respectability: 'Colouredness' through slavery, apartheid and democracy. The talk will take place in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre on Hiddingh campus at 1pm on Tuesday the 12th of February. All are welcome to attend.
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 - 12:00
On Friday the 30th of November the Centre for Curating the Archive' launched their website Object Ecologies, in collaboration with Iziko Museums of South Africa.
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 - 11:30
The Centre for Curating the Archive hosted a symposium titled Reimagining Museums and Archives on Friday the 30th of November. The symposium was largely convened by the Honours in Curatorship class and consisted of two panel discussions: Reimagining As Destruction and Creation and Reimagining Where Archives Are Constituted. As well as these discussions a new website was also launched, in collaboration with Iziko Museums of South Africa, Object Ecologies.