Abstract
The thesis examines what it means to bear witness through art. The complexity of bearing witness is discussed with reference to the writing of Giorgio Agamben and Georges Didi-Huberman, and the artwork of Broombeg and Channerin, Artur Zmejewski and Bindi Cole. My own lens-based practice offers a method of witnessing events at a temporal remove. Specifically, I focus my gaze on colonialism in my birthplace of South Africa. My photographic series Books on a White Background and the video The Miners Companion use the colonial archive as a pivot to critique western constructs of knowledge, whiteness, colonial and imperial histories.
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