Punt, lyn en vlak : tekenpraktyk as demokratiese wyse van maak.

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I ask the question: How to move from a point of state to an expanded and changed field with new possibilities?In this study the standpoint is held that both design and art is transforming in nature. Not only does it serve an aesthetic purpose but also plays a vital role on a socio-political level. Such a viewpoint suggests that there exists an in-betweenspace that allows for the overlapping of methods, researchfields and practices. As both researcher and investigator, this puts me in the expanded in-betweenspace of drawing and design. The aim of this study is therefore not aimed at merely measuring and pointing out differences but rather to bridge, connect and activate the differences as well as the similarities that exist.This research starts with a social practice that uses walking as a means to bridge borders. I aim to show how walking and crochet work can be seen as an expansion of different forms of drawing. This chapter discusses the involvement of a smallgroup of women from the informal settlement of Enkanini, outside of Stellenbosch, in a crochet-conversation. This study ties in with Chantal Mouff (2005,2007), advocating democratic antagonism, as well as John Dewey (1927) and RosalindDeutsche's (1992) philosophy on the public. In addition, Bruno Latour (2005), opens the conversation on boundary objects in his writing on 'things'.The text maps the development from a diagrammatical way of thinking and connects it to Deleuze and Gauttari's (1987) rhizome and assemblage theory to bring all the elements of my work together and into the right relationship. In line with their theory, I also develop the idea of bricolage as a complex network which constantly exists in a state of being. Jane Bennet's writing in Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things(2012), gives direction to the thoughts concerning the agency of materials.In closing I discuss my developing drawing practice, following Wassily Kandinsky's (1947) principle of point, line and plane. This principle is investigated as strands of complex delevelopments that bridges the divide between everyday practices. Drawing as a process and line that gives shape, establishes the discussion which leads to an investigation into drawing that moves into the spaces. I look at how it can lead to social relationships and create opportunity to share in community. I also investigate the possibility to activate drawing as an accessible meduim which can establish not only social connections between things but also bring concepts together.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University