The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making & Meaning

Description

A poet making complex cultural inscriptions from words; a dance curator rechoreographing performance as contested space; a critic mulling over the practice of reviewing; a creative-writing teacher re-shaping the writing workshop; a novelist posing speculative fiction as a genre through which to re-view South Africa’s past, present and possible future(s): these and other essays in the collection push the boundaries of art as makerly process and critical reflection. They offer inspirational routes for making, even 2 as they acknowledge failure, and harness vulnerability as a catalyst for artistic breakthrough. The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making & Meaning celebrates the interplay of imagination and skill, trial and error, daring readers to unlock their own potential as thoughtful artistic practitioners.

ENDORSEMENTS

In the emergent context of scholarship in the creative arts, the inventive essays in this book cover a range of artistic practices and lend substance to the importance of creative making and critical, self-reflexive engagements with creativity.
– Michael Chapman

EDITORS, ARTIST AND OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

Sally Ann Murray (editor and author)
Michèle Betty (editor)
Gabeba Baderoon (the Foreword)
Henrietta Scholtz (artist)
Vonani Bila (author)
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (author)
vangile gantsho (author)
Ashraf Jamal (author)
Liesl Jobson (author)
Lliane Loots (author)
Wamuwi Mbao (author)
Kobus Moolman (author)
Stephanus Muller (author)
Masande Ntshanga (author)
Uhuru Portia Phalafala (author)
Annel Pieterse (author)
Meg Vandermerwe (author)
Simon van Schalkwyk (author)