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So, I have finally joined the flickr craze, and started by uploading a handful of images with "action Jackson" - the new custom-made and fully portable appendage for 360-degree Compressionist scans… Will post the latest finished works (as well as all new documentation, text, etc, on compressionism.net) in the next few days. They’re hot…

In the meanwhile, you can check out the aforementioned documentation images with the new "humbnails and links" flickr feature in my sidebar. Woot!

SAartsEmerging launches today with a feature on Pretoria-born and bred Donna Kukama. In celebration, we’ve planned a cash bar hootenanny for emerging artists and art appreciators, alike:

9 February, 2006
Berlin Bar in Johannesburg, South Africa
7th street, Melville (across and down from Xai Xai)
18:30ish til whenev
Features a site-specific installation by our own Bronwyn Lace!

SAartsEmerging.org is dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not yet been, written about - but who should be. SAartsEmerging lacks any pretense of objectivity, and preference is not only given to Gauteng locals and friends, but also to early-career non-stars working conceptually, and across disciplines. We’re always looking for writers who want to feature burgeoning artists… More information on us or contributing? Visit the site!

SAartsEmerging features a new producer every third Friday of the month. 17 February will see our next feature, Bronwyn Lace, a Johannesburg-based, installation artist, just before her YAP solo show in Durban.

Hope to see you at the party!
Simon Gush, Bronwyn Lace & Nathaniel Stern
http://www.saartsemerging.org

Ah, how I love mutual respect and fondness.

at interval featured on DVblog

michael szpakowski makes me sound cooler than I actually am by saying:

More remarkable work from Nathaniel Stern as he reworks, in the most curious of ways, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall.
Interesting that although the working method here seems almost diametrically opposed to the hands on, performative approach found in the odys series (dvblog 01/05/06) here too is that same sense of the fragility & vulnerability of human beings and their bodies & psyches & of the unreliability of the language we use to try & make what we want to happen & to relate or lie about what did .

Thanks, michael! See the feature and/or download the video from this DVblog link.

To everyone interested in this competition, please visit the site next week.

for more info, go to the website: http://www.dst.gov.za/programmes/art%5Fcompetition/art%5Fcompetition.htm