Katherine Arbuckle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5227285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Arbuckle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Arbuckle |
| SIGNATURE | ARBUCKLE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6801-5485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Headloading
This article describes a study which explored a methodology suitable for studio- based visual art research. The study drew upon an ethnographic and cultural phenomenon manifesting in a social media conversation, with art practice emerging through a process of transmediation. The exploration proposes a methodology which integrates interdisciplinary concepts, such as semiotics, within related practice-led frameworks in order to further develop proc…
Between a Formalist Rock and a Contextually Hard Place
This article explores approaches to visual arts curricula within the institutional setting of a South African university and considers the characteristics and experiences of undergraduate students. The notion of cultural literacies provides a useful entrance to a discussion of the paradoxes affecting this field. Criteria for academic achievement in visual arts are idiosyncratic and difficult to articulate, while the discourses of contemporary art…
Unsettling Space
In a collaborative project at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), students from the Visual Arts and the Drama and Performance Studies programmes explored institutional space through site-responsive performances. The aim of the project was to critically engage with the decolonial turn, to enact transformation, and to build students’ ownership of institutional space using contemporary art practices. This article describes a participatory art ev…
The language of pictures
The ability to understand (‘read’) pictures, is often taken for granted as an inherent human ability. In South Africa, with its great educational and development needs and low adult literacy rate, pictures and illustrations are widely used in educational materials aimed at readers with minimal reading skills, and rightly so. However this usage often seems to be based on the assumption that non-verbal visual images are a universal language that ev…
Unsettling Space
In a collaborative project at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), students from the Visual Arts and the Drama and Performance Studies programmes explored institutional space through site-responsive performances. The aim of the project was to critically engage with the decolonial turn, to enact transformation, and to build students’ ownership of institutional space using contemporary art practices. This article describes a participatory art ev…
The language of pictures
The ability to understand (‘read’) pictures, is often taken for granted as an inherent human ability. In South Africa, with its great educational and development needs and low adult literacy rate, pictures and illustrations are widely used in educational materials aimed at readers with minimal reading skills, and rightly so. However this usage often seems to be based on the assumption that non-verbal visual images are a universal language that ev…
Unsettling Space
In a collaborative project at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), students from the Visual Arts and the Drama and Performance Studies programmes explored institutional space through site-responsive performances. The aim of the project was to critically engage with the decolonial turn, to enact transformation, and to build students’ ownership of institutional space using contemporary art practices. This article describes a participatory art ev…
Between a Formalist Rock and a Contextually Hard Place
This article explores approaches to visual arts curricula within the institutional setting of a South African university and considers the characteristics and experiences of undergraduate students. The notion of cultural literacies provides a useful entrance to a discussion of the paradoxes affecting this field. Criteria for academic achievement in visual arts are idiosyncratic and difficult to articulate, while the discourses of contemporary art…
Headloading
This article describes a study which explored a methodology suitable for studio- based visual art research. The study drew upon an ethnographic and cultural phenomenon manifesting in a social media conversation, with art practice emerging through a process of transmediation. The exploration proposes a methodology which integrates interdisciplinary concepts, such as semiotics, within related practice-led frameworks in order to further develop proc…
Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)