‘Johannesburg Lasts’, a special issue of Ellipses Journal for Creative Research

24 March 2021 - Wits University

Online and interactive creative research from the Wits School of Arts and Arts Research Africa.

Arts Research Africa and the Wits School of Arts are proud to be launching the online and interactive Special Issue of the Ellipses [...] Journal for Creative Research titled 'Johannesburg Lasts'.  Go to: http://www.ellipses.org.za

Edited by Naadira Patel, Ruth Sacks, Tara Weber, Andrei van Wyk, Karin Tan, Skye Quadling and Jarrett
Erasmus, this special issue seeks to uncover, unpack and deepen investigations into present and future hauntings of Johannesburg, it¡¯s specters, toxic legacies, its facades, and the residues of its disturbed surfaces.

This special issue includes the following:

• Counterspace with Sarah de Villiers and Sumayya Vally, where science fiction meets the built environment in down-town Johannesburg.
• Prof. Brett Pyper, Head of the Wits School of Arts on Jazz histories in Johannesburg.
• Nkgopoleng Moloi on navigating the inner city through patriarchy, misogyny and questions of safety.
• Brigitta Stone-Johnson, in a deep dive into 'Lithic Encounters' on the Witwatersrand ridge.
• Nina Barnett and Jeremy Bolen, on pervasive dust and radio activity and how it enters our lives.
• Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, on the fire and subsequent demolition of the Bank of Lisbon building in downtown Johannesburg.
• Riley Grant and William Shoki, on what is means to be "the children of Marx and Zoom".

{...] Ellipses Journal for Creative Research is an online peer reviewed journal started by the Wits School of Arts, managed through Arts Research Africa and supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Special thanks to Editor in Chief and Digital Editor Dr Tegan Bristow with digital editors Andrea Hayes, Lara Seal, Paul Sika and Glen Mudau.