JHB626GP, on the parking gallery roof. Photo by Christo Doherty JHB626GP, Ismail Farouk’s solo exhibition of a video produced for the Venice architectural biennale and photographs shot of a burning house in Ellis Park, was an amazing testament to the urbane provocations alive and well in downtown johannesburg. Between a great SAarts article by Rat [...]
the Upgrade! Johannesburg and the Wits Digital Soiree present: Catherine HeneganDada goes digital – Media Art in a Theatrical Space Amsterdam-based multi-disciplinary artist, Catherine Henegan, is the director of The Shooting Gallery, the controversial performance/media art work currently showing at The Market Theatre. Aided by a computer and a projection screen, Catherine is also a [...]
Hit up Diane Victor’s great opening of 2-D works at Goodman (a little monochromatic, but it is Diane – and the fleshly and performative smoke drawings are my fave), Angus Taylor’s sculpture exhibition at U of J (the large-scale and abstract concrete works are the best), and an amusing and (as always) quality (and surprisingly [...]
With his own brand of printed wallpaper (the pattern extracted from one of his photographs), Thomas Demand darkened the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens in London this summer. Each room a busy dark hue of green interfering with your vision in the same way that a chain link fence does: making us struggle to see [...]
Bumping this up, cuz I still have not sold the desktop. I thought these were good prices (and I thought the ten-minute-after-posting sale of the laptop proved it), but now I need cash to pay for my new laptop, so am willing to negotiate a bit on the desktop (also thowing in a thing or [...]
Ruth Sacks (image from joaoferreiragallery.com)Photographic documentation of Don’t Panic, 21 March 2005, Skywrite, Cape Town CBD, approx. 2 X 18 km. Photo: Mario Todeschini For those who haven’t heard, last night’s ABSA L’Atelier went to a deserving Ruth Sacks, who showed video documentation of her clever and beautiful piece, Don’t Panic. From joaoferreiragallery.com: On Human [...]
diane victor @ fried contemporary Made it to the Roles/Robes opening at Fried in P-town a few nights ago, and it was a strong show – I can’t believe that place has been around for an entire year now, and it is really going strong (huge turn out, for a starving audience of Cont-Art lovers [...]
Via one of the list-servs I’m on, Eyebeam (online home of the reblog, offline a great digital art gallery with an exceptional atelier program) is looking for fellows, and it’s a fantastic deal. Space, equipment, critique, exhibitions, a more than live-able wage and health care in New York City for artists working with technology. Altho [...]
Been doing filler (mostly my own stuff) for the past while on the blog, whilst on residence in Brazil, and not getting out much since going gaga over my daughter. Hit the gallery strip two days ago, tho, and as usual was pleased by the works at Warren Siebrits – with the exception of the [...]
the storytellers: works from the non-aggressive narrative So, more than a year and a half after the fact (and thanks to Sean Slemon, who insisted on lo-res versions of all my prints before deciding on a trade for his sculpture), I finally uploaded a photoset of my first major solo show to flickr. Check out [...]
15 July to 5 August 2006, opens on 15 July at 18h30 From Fried site: An exhibition of mixed-media works, paintings, collages, digital prints, etching, video projections, a short film, sculpture and installations of award-winning South African artists The theme for the exhibition is the identity roles that South Africans have played and continue to [...]
I think it’s safe to say that, over the last few months, Artthrob has taken a distinctive turn toward the critically engaged; and the site is better for it. Between relative newbies Michael Smith and Linda Stupart, their influence and writing, and the influence of the upcoming international plugs for Cape Town on the older [...]
http://www.parking-gallery.net 149 Pritchard Street, downtown Johannesburg nathaniel sternUnseen Videovideo art produced but not yet screened in South Africaopening 13 July 18h00 by appointment til 16 July screen shot from “at interval” These two video pieces, both part of nathaniel’s “language lapse” series, use found footage and pop iconography, along with a combination of writing and [...]
Preview of some prints of mine that’ll be part of a DKW box set will be up, this Saturday. Sadly, I can’t make the opening, but will be there in spirit…. From Krut site: Opens Saturday 8 July at 12h00 This exhibition of prints produced and published at David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) in 2006 [...]
The Mobile-with-no-name-yet is installed and the scaffolding of sixteen metres taken down. One can now see the total immensity of the task. But no photograph can do justice.. The officials in the Department of Science and Technology are all speculating whether this work hides little webcams to observe stray and lazy workers lurking in ‘corporate [...]
Ha, one of the video re-mixes I did at the iCommons iSummit was on BBC news yesterday (or maybe the day before). Check out the page, and then download the MP3 on the right-hand side (about 10MBs) – the whole thing is about Henrik Moltke’s (along with many others) v. cool free beer project, and, [...]
The Press Release: Angus Taylor, well known South African sculptor, will exhibit a body of new work in various media, entitled “DEDUCT” at the UJ Art Gallery from 5 to 26 July 2006. Taylor works from the premise that deduction gathers a valid conclusion from a more general premise to a more specific. The process of [...]
Another hot re-mix of my slam poem, eat, this time entitled I Consume, and by mcjackinthebox. Check it out. Tags: art, art and tech, creative commons, me, music, news and politics, poetry, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, south african art, stimulus, uncategorical, nathaniel stern
230 years ago, we declared our independence from an unelected monarch named George - a mostly self-interested tyrant who did very little to help those who did little to help him. We became, in some respects, Americans. Let’s celebrate that victory this year by shrugging off another almost-but-not-quite elected George, to stop him from promoting self-interest [...]
Robert Hodgins. Gentlemen conversing quietly. 2006. Monotype. 320X515mm 35 years of printmaking @ Art on Paper gallery in Johannesburg, opening this Saturday, 8 July @ 15h0044 Stanley Avenue Braamfontein Werf (Milpark) 2092 From press release by Wilhelm van Rensburg: Robert Hodgins and Jan Neethling first met as lecturer and student at the School of Art [...]
