Institutions of Public Culture
Spring 2001 Fellows
Research Fellows
Patricia Hayes (History Dept., University of the Western Cape) spent her time at Emory working on Cultures of War, a research project that examines visual cultures that emerge in situations of war and violence. She concentrated first on forms of visual documentation in the war zones that included areas of northern Namibia and southern Angola. Hayes has been a leading figure in the formation of the new M.A. program in Public and Visual History at the University of the Western Cape. While at Emory, she also explored other teaching frameworks and expertise that contribute to the program's concerns with visualization of the past, the relationship between texts and visuals, and how visual materials relate to questions of memory and history.
Zayd Minty (One, Independent Arts Production Co.) was the Artistic Director of the Cape Town One City Festival: Celebrating Difference held in September 2000 and has also been the Living Culture and Arts Co-ordinator at Robben Island Museum and the Director of the Community Arts Project (an NGO dealing in arts education). Since 1998, he has also been co-ordinator of the Black Arts Collective (BLAC), and its Blac Seminar Series, BLACONLINE web project, and Returning the Gaze art project. While at Emory Minty was working on A Place Called Home , an exhibition project that deals with issues of identity, dislocation, and memory and features artists from the South Asian Diaspora. The exhibition opened at the NSA Gallery in Durban in June 2004 and then traveled to the South African National Gallery in Cape Town for September-November 2004.
Student Fellows
Sephai Mngqolo (McGregor Museum, Kimberley) has worked at the McGregor Museum in the Northern Cape since 1981 and is currently head of the museum's new Living History Department. He has also been involved in conserving archaeological heritage sites, museum outreach with local schools, and in 1999 created Vusi's Lens, a photographic exhibition on Galeshewe township as seen by photojournalist Vusi Tukakhomo. Mngqolo's summer internship was spent at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Noel Solani (Robben Island Museum) has been involved in Robben Island Museum's oral history project since 1997, collecting testimonies of former Robben Island political prisoners. His recently completed M.A. thesis (History, University of the Western Cape) uses this material to consider memory and representation and to explore how the Robben Island narratives are incorporated in exhibitions and in oral accounts. Solani is in the Heritage, Environmental Resource Department of the Robben Island Museum. During his summer internship, Solani participated in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and worked with the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Jos Thorne (Independent exhibition, book, media design, and M.A. student in Fine Arts, University of Cape Town) has brought her architectural training and experience to a range of design projects in the past decade, including the Digging Deeper and Streets exhibitions at the District Six Museum and the Miscast exhibition at the South African National Gallery. She also designed the Miscast book and other volumes. Thorne's M.A. thesis incorporates her work at District Six Museum in a project that examines the interpretation and display of oral history; the thesis includes a written paper and an installation. Thorne worked at the National Museum of African Art during her internship.
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