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Michaelis School of Fine Art

BOGASATSWANA: redbuilding the boat while sailing

Abstract

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Bogasatswana: Rebuilding the Boat while Sailing, is an attempt to both transmit and disrupt a story-world whose make-up is based on my country of origin, Botswana. It is an exercise in worldbuilding through painting, wherein I establish post-colonial Botswana as a fictional place through the interrogation of gaps within the historicised national myths of the country and locate myself in said place and medium as a subject in the contemporary moment. Rather than the presentation of a fully realized fictional world, this project privileges the attempt at articulating a subjective world-version as informed by my positionality. As with solving a mathematical equation, I endeavour to show my working in the making visible of this space.

Degree

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Grantor
Michaelis School of Fine Art
Year dc:date.issued
2020

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Phetogo, Thebeyame
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Mackenny, Virginia

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32326
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/32326

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University of Cape Town
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Last updated
2026-07-24
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Phetogo, Thebeyame. BOGASATSWANA: redbuilding the boat while sailing. Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32326