Centre for Curating the Archive

An analysis of Democratic South Africa’s National Estate: a CCA Collegian Talk by Lynn Abrahams. The talk will take place at 1pm on Tuesday the 13th of August in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at the Michaelis School of Fine Art.

As part of Iziko South African Gallery's Conservation Week, the honours in curatorship students, along with other students from around the country and a selected number of institutional professionals, take part in an informative and invaluable conservation workshop. This year the workshop ran from the 15th to the 19th of July with invited conservator Patricia Smithen.

As part of the core Honours in Curatorship course, Working with Museum Collections, each of the twelve members of the class had to choose an object from one of the University of Cape Town’s collections (be it the archaeology collection, the Bolus Herbarium, the Pathology Learning Centre or the oology collection, to name but a few). After choosing their object they researched them as far as possible, putting them under intense scrutiny, and producing an object study. These studies can be found on our Object Ecologies website. From there they had to choose a secondary object from their everyday lives to pair with their original object and, as a class, find a way of curating these twenty-four, very different, objects into one curated project. The exhibition, and accompanying catalogue, titled “Colour in the lines” is what they came up with.

Collegian Talk: Screening of Uitgesmyt this Wednesday the 15th of May followed by a Q&A with the director and producer, Dr Siona O'Connell.

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.