to be seen and not to be seen at the same time is a project that draws from the The Depart-Ment of In-Between Affairs: Liminality as a Space for Negotiation, Story-telling and Re-making of Identities (2017-2021), MA research undertaken at Wits University over a period of time. The project uses the digital space as a way to take sections of the research, which currently exists as a publication, and experiment with how this research can be presented and experienced by an audience. One of the main concerns is  exploring methods in which a space like a website can be used to express the idea of in-betweenness and subsequently generate a space where the experiential can take place. Both the notion of being in-between (also liminality or the liminal space) and the experiential perform very important roles in my research and practice.

I use the website as both medium and workspace.

Medium, with regards to, how do I use this material of a website to communicate certain experiences and narratives, and therefore create a space where the audience can interact with that content.

Workspace, using the website as a soundboard for experimentations; adding, removing and changing items on the site, making it continuously be in flux.

The platform itself then starts to perform the in-betweenness or perform it’s thirdspace-ness because of it’s ability to be reinvented through the changing content, and also as a place that further translates the research, therefore creating a continued layered effect. (The pages and/or tabs that have been triggered to load on the website are layers that also exist as code- forming another layering). Reading in-between all of these mechanisms that are at play is important.
The layers of concerns the project addresses is including, but not limited to, belonging, home, identity, the body, the border… Showcasing how these points of departure are all interlinked (one cannot speak about the one, without eventually having to involve the other), as well as disrupting perceived notions of linearity (as microcosms happen simultaneously to each other).