Sound from the Thinking Strings (installation detail)

Item

Title

Creator

Pippa Skotnes

Date Created

1991

Type

Exhibition

Description

'Sound from the Thinking Strings' was comprised of twenty etchings created by Skotnes that drew on southern San mythology, archaeological and historical research and rock paintings; poems by the late poet Stephen Watson that interpreted extracts of nineteenth-century recordings of |xam cosmology compiled in the Bleek and Lloyd archive and pre-selected by Skotnes; and historical and archaeological contextualisations of these recordings in the form of essays by archaeologist John Parkington and historian Nigel Penn. The exhibition also displayed associated visual material that Skotnes sourced from the UCT and State Archives, the UCT Archaeology Department and the SAM.

Subject

Sound from the Thinking Strings

Pippa Skotnes

Iziko South African Museum

rock art

|xam

Patricia Davison

museum

anthropology

Bleek and Lloyd

Is Part Of

SA College of Music

African Studies

Centre for Curating the Archive

Fine Art

Anthropology

Special Collections

Archaeology

Source

Sound from the Thinking Strings Archive (Centre for Curating the Archive)

uri

Sound from the Thinking Strings

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Sound from the Thinking Strings (Installation detail)

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\|\|kabbo's song on the loss of his tobacco pouch		Bibliographic Resource