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\n\t\t\t\t[et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Prof Lize van Robbroeck from the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University recently delivered her inaugural lecture titled, ‘Art and the Legacies of Whiteness at Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts Department’. She spoke to the Corporate Communication and Marketing Division about how her work explores issues of colonial heritage and race in visual arts.<\/p>\n
Vertel ons meer van jou navorsing en hoe jy in hierdie spesifieke vakgebied begin belangstel het.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ek werk reeds sedert my PhD \u2013 wat oor wit kunshistorici en -kritikusse se kritieke ontvangs van swart artistiese modernisme in Suid-Afrika gehandel het \u2013 met ras-kritiese teorie en diskoersanalise. Ek het sedertdien in settelaarskolonialismestudie en psigoanalitiese teorie begin belangstel. Ek pas albei toe op die vraag van hoe Suid-Afrikaanse visuele kunstenaars koloniale erfenis en ras in hul werk hanteer. Ek het onlangs met feministiese nuwe materialisme ('n vakgebied wat op die materiaal fokus en bin\u00eare teenstellings soos verstand-liggaam, natuur-kultuur en menslik-niemenslik vermy) en ander ekokritiese teorie\u00eb begin werk om oor kunstenaars te skryf wie se werk die langtermyngevolge van 'n Westerse episteem (dit is 'n Westers-gebaseerde stelsel van kennis, idees en veronderstellings) bestudeer wat tot hierdie huidige krisis van die Antroposeen (die huidige geologiese tydperk waar menslike aktiwiteite die natuurlike w\u00eareld diepgaande verander) gelei het.<\/p>\n Beskryf die relevansie van jou werk.<\/strong><\/p>\n My werk is relevant omdat ons 'n dekoloniale oomblik in die w\u00eareldgeskiedenis beleef wat baie selfrefleksie deur kunstenaars en vakkundiges verg.<\/p>\n Vertel ons meer oor die impak van jou navorsing.<\/strong><\/p>\n My werk word hoofsaaklik deur vakkundiges aangehaal wat navorsing doen oor die nalatenskap van kolonialisme in Suid-Afrikaanse kuns, maar ook wyer deur skrywers wat oor ras, nasionalisme en visuele kultuur in die voormalige settelaarskolonies skryf.<\/p>\n Vertel ons watter aspekte van jou werk jy die meeste geniet.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ek is baie lief vir onderrig en skryf, maar bowenal vir lees.<\/p>\n Die pandemie het die manier waarop ons werk en leef verander. Hoe het jy gemotiveerd gebly in hierdie tye?<\/strong><\/p>\n Die afgelope paar jaar was vir my weens persoonlike redes baie moeilik, maar ook baie Ionend wat betref die stryd wat ons almal beleef, want dit het my op ryk en belonende maniere laat nuut dink oor ons verhouding tot ander planet\u00eare kragte en lewensvorm.<\/p>\n Vertel ons iets opwindends oor jouself wat mense nie sal verwag nie.<\/strong><\/p>\n My gunstelingtydverdryf is om met my honde te gaan stap. Ek kan vir ure aaneen stap en geniet elke oomblik. Ander mag dalk nie dink dit is baie opwindend nie, maar vir my is dit!<\/p>\n Vertel ons hoe jy jou vrye tyd weg van lesings en navorsing spandeer.<\/strong><\/p>\n I like reading, camping and walking.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column] Prof Lize van Robbroeck from the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University recently delivered her inaugural lecture titled, ‘Art and the Legacies of Whiteness at Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts Department’. She spoke to the Corporate Communication and Marketing Division about how her work explores issues of colonial heritage and race in visual arts. Tell […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11016,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Prof Lize van Robbroeck from the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University recently delivered her inaugural lecture titled, 'Art and the Legacies of Whiteness at Stellenbosch University's Visual Arts Department'. She spoke to the Corporate Communication and Marketing Division about how her work explores issues of colonial heritage and race in visual arts.\r\n\r\nTell us more about your research and why you became interested in this specific field.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI have worked with race-critical theory and discourse analysis since my PhD, which was on the critical reception of black artistic modernism in South Africa by white art historians and critics. I subsequently developed an interest in settler colonial studies and psychoanalytic theory, both of which I apply to the question of how white South African visual artists deal with colonial heritage and race in their work. More recently, I started working with feminist new materialism (a discipline that focuses on the material and avoids binary oppositions such as mind-body, nature-culture and human-nonhuman) and other ecocritical theories to write about artists whose work explore the long-term consequences of a Western episteme (i.e. a Western-based system of knowledge, ideas and assumptions) that led to this current crisis of the Anthropocene (the current geological era where human activities are profoundly changing the natural world).\r\n\r\nHow would you describe the relevance of your work?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMy work is relevant because this is a decolonial moment in the world's history, which requires a lot of self-reflection from white artists and scholars.\r\n\r\nCan you tell us more about the impact of your research?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMy work is largely referenced by scholars who research the legacies of colonialism in South African art, but also more widely, by authors who write about race, nationalism and visual culture in the former settler colonies.\r\n\r\nWhich aspects of your work do you enjoy the most?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI love teaching and writing, but most of all I love reading.\r\n\r\nThe pandemic has changed the way we work and live. What has kept you motivated during these times?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI found the last few years very difficult, for personal reasons, but also very rewarding, insofar as the struggles we all went through collectively caused me to re-think our relationship to other planetary forces and life-forms in rich and rewarding ways.\r\n\r\nTell us something exciting about yourself that people would not expect.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMy favourite activity is walking with my dogs. I can walk for hours and hours and love every moment. Others may not think this is terribly exciting, but for me it is!\r\n\r\nHow do you spend your free time away from lectures and research?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI like reading, camping and walking.","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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