Publications

Celia de Villiers’ writing and research grow directly out of her teaching and studio practice. They sit alongside her work as an educator and her academic profile and education — theory and making continually feeding one another.

Research Articles, Papers and Conference Presentations

  • 2023–2024: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles — two contributed chapters (in progress).
  • 2016–2018: In Public in Particular — online reports on participatory methods and situation-specific art; published by Creative Europe, Dublin, Ireland.
  • 2015: The Journey to Freedom Narratives: Novel Methods of Engagement, with Gwen Miller; Taylor University, US.
  • 2014: Ritual and Transcendence as a Hermeneutic Pathway to Mediation and Healing; Sensorium, Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Brazil.
  • 2013: Pretoria: Past, Present, Precarious, with Elsa van der Klashorst; Metro Muse catalogue, University of Pretoria.
  • 2012–2013: Neo-Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary Visual Culture — lecture notes, University of Pretoria; opening address and curatorial essay, Fried Contemporary Gallery.
  • 2011: Narrations of a Nation: The Art of the Possible — chapter in the proceedings of the 19th Encontro da ANPAP, University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
  • 2011: Ritual and Transcendence… — international conference Space, Ritual, Absence: Liminality in South African Visual Art, University of Johannesburg.
  • 2010: The Ontology of Fetishism — keynote, University of Alba Iulia, Romania (subsequently published as a book chapter).
  • 1997: Duality as a Hermeneutic Principle in Fibre Art: Magdalena Abakanowicz and Christo — BA Fine Arts research paper, UNISA.

TRANSCODE: Dialogues Around Intermedia Practice (catalogue, edited by Gwenneth Miller, 2015) documents Celia de Villiers’ collaborative work Synchronic Journey.

 
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