Melissa Waters
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Melissa Waters

CuratorJohannesburg, South Africa
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Melissa Waters

CuratorJohannesburg, South Africa
About me
I am an aspiring curator interested in how knowledge is produced and maintained, especially through collections and museums. A special interest of mine is the artificial division between 'nature' and 'culture,' and how human beings navigate their worlds alongside natural processes and other beings (animals, etc.)
Projects
  • Prrrip-Prrrip, Tseeeep!: the silence of birds’ eggs
    Prrrip-Prrrip, Tseeeep!: the silence of birds’ eggsBirds are highly vocal creatures, their songs sound everyday in almost every habitat, even our concrete cities. These calls have been likened to the human capacity for speech, yet the faculty of language has, for most of history, been described as solely ‘human.’ Language forms one of several traits deployed to uphold the constructed divide between human and non-human animals. Oology – the collecting and documenting of wild bird eggs – was an obscure hobby and ‘science’ of the past. Collected e
  • F O L L O W E R
    F O L L O W E R"Social media and the cellphone have given new meaning to the notion of devotion. In 'the West' during the 15th century, devoutness was directed (in a physical sense) to altarpieces in churches. These days however, one's cellphone might instead be the receptacle of such commitment. Follower explores the parallels of these behaviours and their disjunctures. 'Images' of worship then and now are juxtaposed through methods of framing, aiming to pose questions concerning the nature of social media, r
Skills
  • Writing
  • Exhibition Planning
  • Computer Literacy
  • Basic Indesign
  • Exhibition Design
  • Curating
  • Archival Research
  • Academic Research
  • Prop Making
  • Exhibition Curation
Education
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    Bachelor of Arts Honours in CuratorshipUniversity of Cape Town Michaelis School of Fine Art
     - Cape Town, South Africa
    Graduated First Class
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    Bachelor of Science in Archaeology and Human GeographyUniversity of the Witwatersrand
     - Johannesburg, South Africa