First up, Nicole (my better 2/3rds) picked up a hot-off-the-press copy of Time Out, Johannesburg yesterday. For those of you who don’t know, Time Out, New York is this great NYC mag with listings of restaurants, shows, exhibitions, spaces, the works – and a few good articles and must sees – for NYC; I think [...]
With, what?, 5 days until my first solo show opens, I’m feeling a little woozy. Perfectionist and anxious guy that I am… if you are around, have some free time, a relatively able body, and want to help, lemme know! But at least there’s some eye candy at the JAG to gaze on while breaking [...]
Here’s some pics of the beautiful, wooden, moving sculptures at a duo show between Toni-Ann Ballenden and Richard John Forbes at GordArt in Melville. These are kind of mythic, rock-a-bye trees growing in the middle of the gallery. Maybe it’s the child in me, but I just kept pushing them like those old punching bags [...]
photo credits: christo doherty Yesterday afternoon saw a fantastic double event at the WSOA Digital Arts friday soiree. First, Cobi Van Tonder facilitated successive performances in her award-winning, interactive gumboot project. Analog sensors in the soles and on the sides of these boots trigger and control live samples of electronic music. Her collaborative performances went [...]
Needless to say, the Bell-Roberts book launch saw some nice drinks, food and important people. It was not as crowded as expected, and I think this is because a lot of people may have been at the Wits Group student Exhibition (pictured, left, is an untitled installation by lee-at meyerov), Usha’s show at gallery momo [...]
Even tho I was informed months ago, I had totally forgotten that Creative Commons, South Africa was already underway. I was then sent this great cartoon, from Jo-Anne Green over at turbulence / networked_performance (a born South African, now living in the States), which led me to heaps more information. My own blog is now [...]
OK. This’ll be the last of the Kebble images I post this year (that’s not a promise). I couldn’t help but show the editioned Doreen Southwood trophy, titled “big night out” here; the idea of having sculptures like this is great (as is the printed invite), tho admittedly a bit cheesy in practice…. Anyway, tonight [...]
And not too far into the shadow of the deserving winners @ the Brett Kebble Art Awards, but indeed after the some of the heartwarming stories, there is a fantastic exhibition of contemporary South African art. Honestly, the BK exhibition has to be the most comprehensive, well curated, and interesting show of work I’ve ever [...]
Hektik! Ok, so I promise to write a more extensive blog after I catch up on my work a bit, then relax, but the short of it is that the Kebbles were amazing, the winners extremely deserving, and the trip a huge success – step inside won a major award!!! See the Kebble site for [...]
I’ve got some great photos of the Kebble works from during set-up, but have promised our courageous curator, Clive, that I would publish nothing until ofter the opening, so as not to ruin the surprise. The show is, admittedly, leaps and bounds superior to last year’s; all artists on board should be proud to play [...]
Nothing exists outside of the text – the purest of pharmakons. Jacques Derrida, father of deconstruction and one of my favorite post-structuralist philosophers, died from cancer at the age of 74 on Friday night. Although always controversial, to me, Derrida was one of the new philosophers who actually lived in reality (note: not to be [...]
And here I am reporting live from the Kebble PC… OK, that actually makes me sound more important than I am. See, I was flown down to set up my installation, and they are not quite ready for me to set up the piece just yet, so they left me in their office and I [...]
Last night, Andrew Meintjes was added to the list of great South African artists – who not only produce work, but support the arts, and are giving within the community at large – that have been killed for next to nothing. Like Gito Baloi, who was only a few months ago slain for the pocket [...]
It’s Boffee! For real! Boffee was an old joke some ITP buddies and I made up when in grad school – because of our sleepless nights and desire to socialize, we wanted caffeinated beer. Looks like we got our wish. Tags: pop culture, re-blog tidbits, uncategorical
And things are heating up in Cape Town now, as the Brett Kebble Art Awards approach. I, myself, will be flying down this Friday to set up step inside for the first time, and just about every ‘name’ in the SA arts scene will be at the awards dinner next Saturday, the 16th. Any guesses [...]
photo credit, jonah When I was in Dublin a couple of months ago, Jonah tossed me a DVD of his work. Last night, I presented that, as well as some more recent stuff from his web site to a nicely-sized South African audience of artists (with a running commentary on the work, the person, the [...]
So now, a few hours later, most polls and articles are saying that, hands down, Kerry won the debate over Bush. He was more articulate, relaxed, presidential. However, depending on the writer and paper/network, they highlight different issues and quotes (duh!). The scary thing is that despite the fact that Kerry has a substantial lead [...]
I couldn’t sleep, and so was up at 3 this morning and could listen to the the first presidential debate, over the internet. Sometimes, I found myself cheering, other times, I just answered (to myself) for Bush and Kerry, when I didn’t like their answers – which was a lot more fun. Now that it’s [...]
