The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making and Meaning

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In a world where artistic expression and creative endeavours hold the power to shape reality, The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making and Meaning delves into the intricate and transformative nature of artistic practice. This collection of essays explores the challenges of producing creative work, the intersection of diverse media, and the generative encounter of inspiration, idea, materials and innovation. Spanning a broad spectrum of artistic fields – from visual arts to music and literature, and from podcasting to performance and dance – these essays shed light on the creative processes and critical insights that occur when imagination meets discipline.

A poet making complex cultural inscriptions from words; a dance curator rechoreographing performance as contested space; a critic mulling over the practice of reviewing; a creative-writing teacher re-shaping the writing workshop; a novelist posing speculative fiction as a genre through which to re-view South Africa’s past, present and possible future(s): these and other essays in the collection push the boundaries of art as makerly process and critical reflection. They offer inspirational routes for making, even 2 as they acknowledge failure, and harness vulnerability as a catalyst for artistic breakthrough. The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making and Meaning celebrates the interplay of imagination and skill, trial and error, daring readers to unlock their own potential as thoughtful artistic practitioners.