New title : traversing uncertain co-ordinates in search of alternative trajectories

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis traverses the complexities and entanglement of theoretical and practical processes in aPost-structural age. Through the deconstruction of stable systems of knowledge and thought, this agehas become synonymous with uncertainty. In an attempt to navigate a time of continual change,Foucault proposes a toolkit. Foucault advocates deconstruction, critical engagement and reflection. Inaddition to these tools, this thesis moves through genealogical, mapping, archaeological and glass(blowing) methodologies. My practice cannot be separated from theory, it is excavated concurrently.Foucault, Derrida, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari open up knowledge systems in an effort touncover alternative thought trajectories and create a space in which complexity can exist. Knowledgecirculating in this space is not fixed, it manifests in moments. My practical project, Fleeting Certainty,also aims to create an open space. It does not culminate in one, autonomous work, but is rather anarchive of moments. Viewers will also be equipped with a toolkit of light and lenses with which tocreate moments of their own. Therefore moments will generate continuously. These theoretical andpractical processes do not culminate in a coherent conclusion. There is a pause, a comma, but thereare many more trajectories or lines to follow.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University