Speakers
- Nomvuyo Horwitz
- University of Johannesburg
Nomvuyo Horwitz is Assistant Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Johannesburg, and is completing a Masters degree in the same subject at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research is concerned with the impact of social and political change on the production of meaning and ‘value’ for art objects from across Africa. More specifically, she is focused on how archives of mission-generated collections of ‘art’ objects from today’s Democratic Republic of Congo can be re-figured in ways that de-colonise Art History in Africa. In 2016/7 Horwitz undertook a predoctoral research fellowship as part of The Arts Of Africa And The Global South Programme at Rhodes University. She completed a BA (Hons) in History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2015Her research has been published in the journal African Arts (2017), and in a book, Lifescapes (2016), by the Wits University Press.