Lin Yutang, a world-famous writer and translator, has long been known as an apolitical cultural ambassador. This study reveals, however, that beginning from the early 1940s, Lin turned from apoliti...

India’s rise as the world’s largest democracy and its challenge to the Western-defined global order have attracted significant scholarly, political, and media attention. Using Anderson and Prelli’s...

Bougaard, an emerging South African creative practitioner, examines games from her “Coloured” childhood community in Eden Park, Johannesburg, and how these games may offer a window into a reframed ...

This article examines a selection of artistic production by four white South African women after apartheid ended, whose work articulates affects associated with nostalgic desire and loss. By thinki...

Zhao Chuan’s play World Factory continuously introduces reality into the theatre by resorting to the creative techniques of documentary theatre, epic theatre, and theatre of the oppressed in left-w...

This article explores the artistic and scientific practices of Lander Gyselinck, focusing on the hybridisation of jazz and beat-based electronic dance genres. The research investigates how cross-fe...

This study aims to explore how Confucius is recharacterised in the multimodal translation of The Analects from verbal (analects) to verbal-visual (comics) texts. The focus is on the interpersonal/i...

This article proposes a methodology to identify rhetorical energies that form within the diegetic timeline of movies and to translate these to creative sculpting of spacetime designs. In turn, the ...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

The metaverse brings us not only a flashy phase of new technologies, but also forces us to rethink some fundamental philosophical concepts, among which the theory of objects becomes an important is...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

In this article, I consider the global tradition of live art as a pedagogical force that draws on queer affect and resonance. Scholars of performance studies have situated live art in the field of ...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This article explores Alicia Little’s presentation of foot-bound women in her travelogues and periodical essays. Her exploration of the anti-footbinding movement saw the dissemination of Western fe...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Delving into the various things in Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement, this article seeks to value the being of materiality with inspiration gained from Thing Narratology and New Materialism. Rather...

In multicultural and multilingual societies like South Africa, newswork, or the practices that underpin the news-making process, is made possible by linguistic and cultural translation. In other wo...

In an era of uncertainty, where epistemic freedoms are challenged and where many people feel excluded, how can communication – both as a discipline and a practice – serve to combat these uncertaint...

The authors position and contextualise Adelheid Frackiewicz’s recent landart amid comparable works by contemporary artists, dealing with land loss, mourning, and migration. Paul Ricoeur’s magnanimo...

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With growing attention to including parents and eliciting their voices in the inclusive journey of their children, this paper discusses a process of research-creation. With examples of parents maki...

This paper reflects upon an in-progress, exploratory piece of digital theatre adapted from Zeno Constance’s seminal bildungsroman The Ritual. In this work, Black women engage in a process of theori...

The article explores the common ground between critical public anthropology and critical public pedagogy as critically conscious, engaged, and animating practices. Through intervention in the publi...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This research paper explores different game design methodologies that can be used to translate the South African novel Souvenir by Jane Rosenthal, set in the semi-desert region known as the Karoo i...

The present study delves into the portrayal of dark humour in the Hindi films produced in Mumbai, popularly known as Bollywood films. The dark humour films of Bollywood mainly focus on prevalent so...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

The sustained marginalisation of creative arts in higher education in Australia risks the delivery of superficial learning experiences that are disconnected from the relationality of place, people,...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

In this article, we approach the visual tropes in Carrie Mae Weems’ bodies from an intersectional perspective through mobilising critical arts and black feminist studies for art pedagogies. A const...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)

Emily Apter’s conception of the “untranslatable” taps into the dynamics and difficulties of translation between languages and cultures. The process of translation is described as a “intransigent nu...

Whereas the intellectual labour of re-memorialising what has come to be understood as the “living archive of Ntongela Masilela” hinges on the broad corpus that he churned out as he steadily carved ...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Current art mediation practices often show experimental forms of relating “art” and “public” and are navigating in non-linear ways at the intersection of art and education. In this paper we explore...

HIV/AIDS stigmas and mythologies continue to sabotage and delay the South African government’s attempts to manage and mitigate this epidemic. As a result of this, many people are reluctant to test,...

Drawing on insights drawn from multidisciplinary studies of the arts and translation studies, this article aims to conceptualize the work of translation within art gallery education. It unpacks and...

Digitization is the primary form of Metaverse art, making the Metaverse digitally re-enable the unfolding of art. First, as a digital art form, non-fungible token (NFT) art acts as a media technolo...

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The power of new media lies in its ability to cultivate creativity in various domains. Metaverse literature and art open up new possibilities in five dimensions, surpassing the limitations of tradi...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)

Loneliness has become one of the most pressing research issues of the contemporary age, with a vast literature emerging from health, education, the social sciences, and cultural studies to better u...

This article discusses the relationship between the critical potential of the arts and dominant notions of criticality. Traditionally, “critical thinking” is often equated with rationality and deli...

In Theory of the Idea, Plato proposes an intersection of the abstract and the concrete as the genesis of a new product. This discussion is centred on the Platonian notion and ingenuity of the graft...

Destructive human action is causing interconnected ecological and social challenges on an unprecedented scale. Scholars and artists from varied fields have critically expressed their concern about ...

Since the end of 2021, the concept of “metaverse” has received widespread attention in academic field. Movie sector has long been exploring it prospectively and presenting it innovatively, resultin...

Critical pedagogy has become a crucial element in managing post-migration societies, especially concerning the social cohesion dilemma that diversity creates. Through an ethnography of critical mus...

This article examines the intellectual legacy left by the late literary historian, the well-travelled Ntongela Masilela, a hitherto under-studied cultural and literary scholar whose analytical sign...

A “decolonial turn” is arguably afoot in Khoisan Studies, an interdisciplinary field of enquiry that originated in the colonial era and focuses on the Khoisan indigenous peoples of Southern Africa....

Analysing art that emerges from remediation can be a form of critical pedagogy in and of itself. This article focuses on art forms that involve remediation as a strategy of the critical pedagogy of...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)

This study investigates labour, and exploitation within the production and consumption of student memes in South Africa. Using two case studies of two prominent South African student meme pages fou...