Team
Prof. Alison Kearney
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg
Alison Kearney is a South African National Research Foundation (NRF) Rated, Johannesburg based artist, researcher and arts educator with a multi-disciplinary research praxis focused on exploring epistemologies of art. Her praxis includes making artworks that critically engage with the discourses and institutions of art as well as theorising modernist and contemporary African artworks that challenge inherited, western discourses of art. These interests are brought into her teaching through what and how she teaches university students, as well as the educational work that Alison does with diverse audiences in art museums. Alison is committed to writing about and curating exhibitions of African art that challenges Western epistemologies of art; to make explicit the ways in which art making and theorizing art can be understood as research praxis; and to contribute to decolonizing art history by developing unorthodox ways of writing about art.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9974-0268
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alison-Kearney
@the_museum_under_erasure on Instagram.
Dr Cameron Harris
Senior Lecturer, Wits School of Arts Music Department
Cameron Harris studied composition at the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and Pennsylvania with Nigel Osborne, John Casken, Edward Harper, James Primosch and Jay Reise. He was a Thouron fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and later the recipient of a Benjamin Franklin scholarship. He won the Network for New Music composition competition in Philadelphia and the David Halstead Music Prize for composition at the University of Pennsylvania.
Originally from the UK, Cameron has been based in South Africa since 2006. His main interests are interactive electronic music composition and the history of electronic music.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9495-1453