This research looks at the Hotel Yeoville (2010) public digital art project and offers an analysis towards understanding how through this creative intervention a public discourse
can be inclusive of marginalised African immigrant groups living in South Africa.
The marginal status of African immigrant groups in South Africa, is consistently similar in
the digital arts field where there is no evident critique of the public art methods employed
by art practitioners in engaging these marginalised groups.
The agenda of Hotel Yeoville was particularly an attempt to counter the marginalising brutal and muted representations of these groups in mainstream media.
In order for this creative intervention to effect such change, its public element needed to
display a public vibrancy that was inclusive of the pluralistic opinions and voices of the
African immigrant groups.
However this public art project revealed paradoxes and complexities that are at the core
of public art practise, and also highlighted the ambivalence of a strong creative product
with an uncertain public‐ness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/15285 |
| Date | 26 August 2014 |
| Creators | Langa, Londiwe |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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