Artistic Responses to Gender-based Violence

Saptouw, Fabian; Alves, Sianne

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2018 - Volume 1 - Number 2

Artistic Responses to Gender-based Violence

Fabian Saptouw * f.saptouw@uct.ac.za * ORCID: 0000-0001-6876-2616
University of Cape Town, Faculty of Humanities, Michaelis School of Fine Art

Sianne Alves * Sianne.alves@uct.ac.za * ORCID: 0000-0002-3077-036X
University of Cape Town, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor: Transformation, Office for Inclusivity & Change

Open Journal for Studies in Arts, 2018, 1(2), 61-74 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsa.0102.02061s
Online Published Date: 30 December 2018

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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KEY WORDS: humanities, art, socially responsive projects, gender-based violence, public art.

ABSTRACT:
This article will present the findings of an ongoing project linked to the intersection of art, public space and social justice issues. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the teaching project by assessing the creative process of a group of 52 first year fine art students at the University of Cape Town. This paper will review the choices the students made when challenged to develop responses in the form of textual, visual and temporary public interventions to the subject of gender-based violence. The project has been running for 7 years, but this paper will primarily focus on one assignment linked to the topic of gender based violence in 2018.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Fabian Saptouw, University of Cape Town, Faculty of Humanities, Michaelis School of Fine Art, 31-37 Orange Str., Gardens, Cape Town, 8000, SOUTH AFRICA. E-mail: f.saptouw@uct.ac.za.

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