Call for applications: Institute for Creative Arts scholarship

The scholarship is intended for performers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, directors, curators as well as creative and performing arts researchers.

All candidates are encouraged to apply, and in particular black South African women.

The scholarships are valued at R100 000 per annum and are for a two-year period: 2020 to 2021. The MA degree must be completed at the end of 2021.

Application process

The ICA will not accept applications via email. Applicants should submit their expression of interest here with the following:

• A CV with the applicant’s name, surname, nationality, address, contact numbers, passport/ID number and email address.
• Proposed research area and thesis (max 300 words).
• Indicate whether you wish to pursue the study even if your application for a full scholarship is unsuccessful.

Once the selection committee has reviewed the expressions of interest, the ICA will approach a shortlist of candidates to submit a formal application with a full proposal.

The submission deadline is 30 August at 2pm.

The research should focus on:

• Interdisciplinary conversations, inclusive of such hybrid forms as live art (or performance art), performance curation, site-specific performance, mixed-media performance, post-dramatic theatre and contemporary dance.
• Interdisciplinary study in relation to cultural and socio-political contexts.

Sites for study include:

• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Performance art/live art.
• Live art in South Africa and other parts of the African continent.
• Decolonial imaginaries, the decolonial body and the body as text and site of contestation.
• Spectatorship and relationships with viewing audience involvement.
• Site specificity and the creative and performing arts.
• The creation of public spheres: open access spaces for the creation and reception of creative and performing arts events and discourse.

Structure

All students will be required to attend a regular seminar programme throughout the year as well as a studio programme for the first semester of their degree. Students may choose to do the degree by written thesis or a practice-based programme involving practical outcomes (e.g. performances/installations/exhibitions) and written explication.

Students will be based at the ICA, at UCT’s Hiddingh Campus, Gardens, Cape Town with coordination by Professors Jay Pather and Mark Fleishman.

All queries should be addressed to ica@uct.ac.za with the subject line 'MA Proposal Query'.

View the original call here.