Art as accessible knowledge for challenging intersectional gender binarisms
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Arts-based research struggles to find validation within the norms of rigid Eurocentric and
androcentric academic norms. The Rhodes Must Fall movement, that started at the University
of Cape Town in 2015, and the creative demonstrations/interventions that have occurred
since then, as a tool for mass mobilisation and knowledge dissemination, were crucial in
illustrating that art is an accessible form of pedagogy and scholarship in engaging with social
issues. In this study, I centre creative practice to lead the research on an enquiry into
alternative forms of gender, what I term �soft masculinities� and �tough femininities,� through
memories of my experience, community and family, which I capture as nuanced expressions
through photography. For the study, I use the visual body of artwork I created to formulate
my research question.
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Masters of Art
Keywords
Art, Storytelling, Pedagogy, Feminism, Gender