Expired: OPEN CALL FOR MA SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS: INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE ARTS

24th June 2022 /
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Deadline

31 July 2022

Website

Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance

Opportunity Description

The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) at the University of Cape Town invites applications for scholarships for MA Study in Live Art, Interdisciplinary and Public Art from 2023-2024. Choreographers, visual artists, performers, directors, composers, curators as well as researchers are all invited to apply.

Background:

The ICA is an interdisciplinary institute in the University of Cape Town’s Humanities Faculty that facilitates new collaborative research projects, particularly in the Creative and Performing Arts. Interdisciplinarity, Live Art and Public Spheres are key themes of the Institute, and projects are imbued with innovation, collaboration and a dialogue with urbanism and community.

Research focus:

  • Interdisciplinary conversations, inclusive of such hybrid forms as site-specific performance, mixed-media performance, post-dramatic theatre, contemporary dance, live art (or performance art), performance curation.
  • 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 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 elect to do the degree by Written Thesis or a Practice-Based Programme involving Practical Outcomes (Performances/Installations/Exhibitions for example) and Written Explication. Students will be based at the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at UCT’s Hiddingh Campus, Gardens, Cape Town with co-ordination by Professors Jay Pather and Mark Fleishman.

Scholarships:

The ICA announces provision for scholarships valued at R105,000 per annum. Scholarships are for a two-year period: 2023-2024. The MA degree must be completed at the end of 2024. There are up to four scholarships available.

How to Apply

Applications process:

Go to www.ica.uct.ac.za/ica/webform/MAApplications2023-24 where you will be required to submit a proposal comprised of the following:

  • Name, Surname, Nationality, Address, Contact Numbers, ID/Passport number and Email Address
  • CV
  • Research proposal (max 500 words)
  • Indicate whether you wish to pursue the study even if your application for a scholarship is unsuccessful.

PLEASE NOTE:

  • Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
  • Scholarship applicants will still need to apply directly to UCT for admission into their programme.
  • The scholarship is for South African citizens only.
  • All qualifying candidates are encouraged to apply, and in particular black South African women.

The ICA will not accept applications via email.

Queries:

Email ica@uct.ac.za with the subject line MA Scholarship Query