Abstract
Angelique Bougaard looks at four childhood games she identifies as prevalent from her Kullid community in Eden Park. In her masters body of work she creates art that explores in a playful manner the role that these games have in the development of a Kullid identity. Analysing the rhymes used in these games, she interrogates the activation of language, specifically Afrikaaps. This dissertation describes how, according to Bougaard, language’s role in Kullid communities provides a heteroglot lens into Kullidness, which aids in the subversion of conventionalised tropes and experiences of trauma. The author furthermore seeks to empower a sense of her familial and community-based identity through a perspective of Kullidness that emerges when engaging with these childhood games.
In her masters body of work, the artist and author explains how she engages with selected childhood games as enactors of cultural values across generations. She explores the creation of an experiential installation that integrates elements of sound, smell and the visual. The artist uses sculpture, papermaking and printmaking techniques to examine the multi-sensory experiences activated when interpreting the rhymes used in these games.
The analysis of the work of multidisciplinary artist’s Thania Petersen and Berni Searle show the commonalties that exist between their work and Bougaard’s practice. Bougaard notes that all three artists highlight a constructed sense of ‘Coloured’ identity, however she realises this through childhood games.