Sound from the Thinking Strings (installation detail)
Item
Title
Sound from the Thinking Strings (installation detail)
Creator
Pippa Skotnes
Date Created
1991
Type
Exhibition
Description
'Sound from the Thinking Strings' was comprised of twenty etchings created by Skotnes that drew on southern San mythology, archaeological and historical research and rock paintings; poems by the late poet Stephen Watson that interpreted extracts of nineteenth-century recordings of |xam cosmology compiled in the Bleek and Lloyd archive and pre-selected by Skotnes; and historical and archaeological contextualisations of these recordings in the form of essays by archaeologist John Parkington and historian Nigel Penn. The exhibition also displayed associated visual material that Skotnes sourced from the UCT and State Archives, the UCT Archaeology Department and the SAM.
Subject
Sound from the Thinking Strings
Pippa Skotnes
Iziko South African Museum
rock art
|xam
Patricia Davison
museum
anthropology
Bleek and Lloyd
archive
bag
poem
skin
poem
archaeology
history
diorama
interpretation
exhibition
San
cosmology
interdisciplinary
Axeage Press
Is Part Of
SA College of Music
African Studies
Centre for Curating the Archive
Fine Art
Anthropology
Special Collections
Archaeology
Source
Sound from the Thinking Strings Archive (Centre for Curating the Archive)
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