Mon, 19 Mar 2018 - 16:45
Meet the 2018 Honours in Curatorship students. Below is a short bio on each student, a photo of them and a photo from their first CCA exhibition.
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 - 14:00
Applications for the Honours in Curatorship course are now open through until 31 October.
The Honours Programme in Curatorship is offered by the Michaelis School of Fine Art and hosted by the Centre for Curating the Archive in close collaboration with Iziko Museums of Cape Town.
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 - 11:00
The Centre for Curating the Archive has two positions available for reliable and organised individuals wanting to join our great team! We are looking for both a project assistant and a publications assistant.
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 - 10:45
HARFIELD REMEMBERED
On Saturday, 17 March, the CCA played host to a workshop for the upcoming Harfield Village publication by Pippa Skotnes and Siona O'Connell.
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 - 09:45
The CCA was sad to see the exhibition Erf 81: Two decades of living on the fringe come down on the week of the 26th of June 2017 . Thank you to everyone who came to see it. We managed to collection over 170 signatures in the petition book, at the exhibition, and we hope we can still save the farm.
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 - 10:15
The Honours in Curatorship programme, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is offered by the Michaelis School of Fine Art’s Centre for Curating the Archive in close collaboration with Iziko Museums.
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 - 10:30
The CCA Honours in Curatorship class of 2017 went on an international field trip, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, to Kassel, Germany, to visit Documenta 14.
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 - 14:00
Museums are in the business of collecting and preserving objects from the past and using these in research, exhibitions and education to help us understand our place in the world and the universe. Each year, the University of Cape Town Honours in Curatorship students who are doing the Working with Museum Collections module undertake an object study where they research and annotate an object from the Iziko collections.
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 - 14:00
With a BFA majoring in Printmaking, paper has always been the first language of the specialist and consultant Phillippa Duncan, for whom passion includes South African art of the 20th century, works on paper and prints. After spending a number of years working in the Fine Art auction world, Duncan started as an independent consultant.
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 - 14:15
Houghton Kinsman follows up on Thuli and Asher Gamedze’s article Calling for Better Curated Spaces for Knowledge Production.
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 - 14:15
On 17th and 18th July 2017, the Centre for Curating the Archives (CCA) organized a workshop for Honours in Curatorship students on exhibition histories. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Lucy Steeds a senior research fellow with the art programme at Central Saint Martins of the University of the Arts London. Dr. Steeds also manages the Exhibition Histories Project for Afterall and contributes to the MRes Art: Exhibition Studies.
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 - 10:00
Dirk Winterbach is one of the artists, along with André Laubscher and Ashley Walters, who is exhibiting work in Erf 81: Two decades of living on the fringe, an exhibition that hopes to go some way towards saving the Tamboerskloof Farm where Dirk is both a resident and practising artist. Magdaleen du Toit is a student in the CCA’s Honours in Curatorship class. While studying she has also been interning for this exhibition and is deeply involved in the project. The exhibition is on until the 25th of June 2017 at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, 35 Church Street, Cape Town.