Untold Stories: (Re-)Narrativising the Past in the Present through Visual Artmaking

Abstract

The articles in this issue and the next have been developed from papers that were presented at the 35th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, hosted by the research entity Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs (ViNCO) in the Faculty of Humanities of the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, from September 29 to October 2, 2021. Mindful of ViNCO’s research focus on visual narratives; the location of the North-West University’s Potchefstroom campus, with its proximity to the Highveld’s mining belt; and the entanglement of Potchefstroom’s history with the South African War and apartheid, we co-convened the conference around the theme “Untold Stories”.