Telling Places
TELLING PLACES A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION VOLUME I Anneke de Klerk Dissertation presented for the Degree of Doctor of Visual Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University Supervisors: Prof Stella Viljoen and Dr Ernst van der Wal December 2019 Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za Abstract understanding of being, as well as postphenomenological developments that entangle technologies in this being, I tested the This thesis and accompanying exhibition explore landscape practice against the theory and the theory against the practice, as photography practice within the politically fraught context of the recommended for a phenomenology of practice by Max Van Manen Southern African landscape and equally fraught traditions of (2014: 66-68). For each of the three places – Morgenster, Mochudi, landscape representation, especially in previously colonised and Kempton Park in Southern Africa – selected for their role in countries. Ideological and political readings of landscape different times in my personal history, I chose a different photographs tend to automatically position the artist and, by photographic system with which to work that resonated with my extension, the viewer, in a distanced, contemplative relation to the individual experience of that place and facilitated distinctive landscape (Malpas, 2011a: 6). This kind of relation skews power expressions of the experience. I then produced three bodies of relations towards the viewer; in part due to the nature of the photographic works. photographic medium with its monocular, static, linear perspective. This thesis seeks to question this determinist position and to explore Phase 2 is titled Telling-of. This section deals with the process of through reflective photographic practice an alternative frame within bringing the work produced in Phase 1 into the public discourse on which to engage with places photographically.
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