Alex Halligey
Biographic Data
| ID | 147877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Halligey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Halligey |
| SIGNATURE | HALLIGEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3125-173X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Space for haunting
This paper considers a devised, site-specific performance in and about the Windybrow, a mining magnate heritage house-turned-arts-centre in Johannesburg’s inner city Hillbrow. The work was called Ngale kweNdlu, which translates from isiXhosa as ‘The Other Side of the House.’ Through scenographic installations and interwoven theatrical narratives, characters and scenes, Ngale kweNdlu sought to draw out the less told, untold and invisibilized eleme…
Liveability and vitality
This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The paper takes as its case study research conducted in 2019 and 2020 in Mongla and Noapara, south west Bangladesh. This paper illustrates firstly, the possibilities for the concept of liveability to produce nuanced, granular understandings of how small cities s…
Emplaced sounding
Through a close reading of Zadie Smith's portrayal of the character Keisha/Natalie's voice and relationship to voice in the novel NW, this article considers how people's speaking, sounding voices are both emplaced (coming from, made by place) and are key place-making acts. This paper argues for how analysing sound in literature might serve sonic geographic interest in the 'whole' voice, with all sound's representational and more-than representati…
Dark’ cities
This article considers Harold Johnson’s (Hariwe) 2014–2016 research project on ‘Dark City’, an informal vertical settlement in inner-city Johannesburg, as offering a productive arts-orientated, interdisciplinary study of and proposal for planning and design interventions in informally occupied urban spaces. Hariwe used his architectural skills to ‘reverse design’ the building according to its daily use by residents. Collaborators Jono Wood and Di…
‘Home is home’
An Ethiopian immigrant in Johannesburg, Mewish, describes the housing she has lived in since leaving Ethiopia in 2002. The interview is framed as a testimony to the kinds of daily actions towards finding shelter and making a home that might be considered forms of micro activism, daily actions of resistance and change making in precarious housing circumstances
Layering mobilities
Drawing together Tim Cresswell's work on mobilities with Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, this article considers the Johannesburg suburbs of Bertrams, Lorentzville and Judith's Paarl as produced and reinvented through the mobilities of their inhabitants. How might an artistic performance foreground the mobilities that contribute to daily place-making? In so doing, how might an artistic performance work into the history of a city space and the o…
Re-inventing mythologies
In two productions, ten years apart, Jazzart Dance Theatre and the Magnet Theatre Company have created epic myth narratives. Medea in 1994 based on the Medea myth and Rain in a Dead Man's Footprints in 2004 based on /Xam myths
Dark’ cities
This article considers Harold Johnson’s (Hariwe) 2014–2016 research project on ‘Dark City’, an informal vertical settlement in inner-city Johannesburg, as offering a productive arts-orientated, interdisciplinary study of and proposal for planning and design interventions in informally occupied urban spaces. Hariwe used his architectural skills to ‘reverse design’ the building according to its daily use by residents. Collaborators Jono Wood and Di…
Liveability and vitality
This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The paper takes as its case study research conducted in 2019 and 2020 in Mongla and Noapara, south west Bangladesh. This paper illustrates firstly, the possibilities for the concept of liveability to produce nuanced, granular understandings of how small cities s…
Emplaced sounding
Through a close reading of Zadie Smith's portrayal of the character Keisha/Natalie's voice and relationship to voice in the novel NW, this article considers how people's speaking, sounding voices are both emplaced (coming from, made by place) and are key place-making acts. This paper argues for how analysing sound in literature might serve sonic geographic interest in the 'whole' voice, with all sound's representational and more-than representati…
Layering mobilities
Drawing together Tim Cresswell's work on mobilities with Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, this article considers the Johannesburg suburbs of Bertrams, Lorentzville and Judith's Paarl as produced and reinvented through the mobilities of their inhabitants. How might an artistic performance foreground the mobilities that contribute to daily place-making? In so doing, how might an artistic performance work into the history of a city space and the o…
Re-inventing mythologies
In two productions, ten years apart, Jazzart Dance Theatre and the Magnet Theatre Company have created epic myth narratives. Medea in 1994 based on the Medea myth and Rain in a Dead Man's Footprints in 2004 based on /Xam myths
Layering mobilities
Drawing together Tim Cresswell's work on mobilities with Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, this article considers the Johannesburg suburbs of Bertrams, Lorentzville and Judith's Paarl as produced and reinvented through the mobilities of their inhabitants. How might an artistic performance foreground the mobilities that contribute to daily place-making? In so doing, how might an artistic performance work into the history of a city space and the o…
‘Home is home’
An Ethiopian immigrant in Johannesburg, Mewish, describes the housing she has lived in since leaving Ethiopia in 2002. The interview is framed as a testimony to the kinds of daily actions towards finding shelter and making a home that might be considered forms of micro activism, daily actions of resistance and change making in precarious housing circumstances
Dark’ cities
This article considers Harold Johnson’s (Hariwe) 2014–2016 research project on ‘Dark City’, an informal vertical settlement in inner-city Johannesburg, as offering a productive arts-orientated, interdisciplinary study of and proposal for planning and design interventions in informally occupied urban spaces. Hariwe used his architectural skills to ‘reverse design’ the building according to its daily use by residents. Collaborators Jono Wood and Di…
Emplaced sounding
Through a close reading of Zadie Smith's portrayal of the character Keisha/Natalie's voice and relationship to voice in the novel NW, this article considers how people's speaking, sounding voices are both emplaced (coming from, made by place) and are key place-making acts. This paper argues for how analysing sound in literature might serve sonic geographic interest in the 'whole' voice, with all sound's representational and more-than representati…
Space for haunting
This paper considers a devised, site-specific performance in and about the Windybrow, a mining magnate heritage house-turned-arts-centre in Johannesburg’s inner city Hillbrow. The work was called Ngale kweNdlu, which translates from isiXhosa as ‘The Other Side of the House.’ Through scenographic installations and interwoven theatrical narratives, characters and scenes, Ngale kweNdlu sought to draw out the less told, untold and invisibilized eleme…
Liveability and vitality
This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The paper takes as its case study research conducted in 2019 and 2020 in Mongla and Noapara, south west Bangladesh. This paper illustrates firstly, the possibilities for the concept of liveability to produce nuanced, granular understandings of how small cities s…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works)