"Collaborations between scholars, activists and artists allows for an expansion of our understandings of these structured social worlds beyond the world of scientific and scholarly language. Building on the idea that collaborative practices can significantly enhance understandings in the social sciences and advance education. Unfinished Business will explore the many hidden memory battles about representations of historic violence in South Africa. Through a focus on the role of memorialization and the arts in problematizing the politics of transition, we hope to reveal how creative and cultural interventions can reframe the politics of memory. As Olivera Simic notes; art can provide a ‘break from the narrative of denial’, can recognize past injustices and ‘provide symbolic reparation and important unofficial counterparts for truth finding’.