CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:

Two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Bioart + Design Africa

The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg, invites applications for two fully funded National Research Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowships located under its Bioart and Design Africa (BA + DA) research stream.
This exciting opportunity is open to scholars and creative practitioners who critically and creatively deploy bioart and biodesign as decolonial praxis to reshape current and future ecologies from Africanised perspectives.
As there are relatively few opportunities for bioart and biodesign scholarship and practice in the South African academy, this fellowship offers an exceptional opportunity for scholars and practitioners to engage with alternative forms of collaborative praxis; experimental ways of working with biomatter and biomaterials; unconventional methodologies, practice-led research and indigenous forms of knowledge which foreground ecocentrism.

Artwork Credit: Usha Seejarim, “Nesting” (2019); Grass broom, wire and steel; Dimensions variable.