Tracey Randle will present the Department of Archaeology seminar with a talk entitled, "Curating transformation: negotiating land reform, archaeology and music on a Cape wine farm".  

Solms-Delta Wine estate, situated on the outskirts of Franschhoek, provides a thought-provoking case study on the process of uncovering a layered history of one piece of land as part of a series of actions of restitution and transformation in its ownership. Having undergone an excavation of its complex past through archaeology, historical investigation and processes of curation and custodianship, the pattern of land ownership has been disrupted and altered in the present. This is not a neat, finite, solution but an ongoing effort to grapple with the legacy of past (dis)inheritances and (dis)possessions on one farm through a curated investigation into its past. 

Bio: Tracey Randle is a 3^rd year PhD student at UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art. With predominantly historical and curation practice as background for the last 14 years, her thesis explores the intersections of museum curation, history and land reform in relation to the specific case study of Solms-Delta farm. Tracey also works as a heritage consultant in the Cape region (see https://capeherstorian.co.za).