Artistic Responses to Gender-based Violence

This article will present the findings of an ongoing project linked to the intersection of art, public space and social justice issues. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the teaching project by assessing the creative process of a group of 52 first year fine art students at the University of Cape Town. This paper will review the choices the students made when challenged to develop responses in the form of textual, visual and temporary public interventions to the subject of gender-based violence. The project has been running for 7 years, but this paper will primarily focus on one assignment linked to the topic of gender based violence in 2018.