Got this from here:
Rhizome has an open call for net art commissions. You could score between US$1k and US$3K to MAKE SOME GODDAMN NET ART FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
Deadline is April 2, 2007 and that ain’t no joke.
Get on over there and find out how to submit a proposal for chrissake! Do it now! Do [...]
As part of XCape, Cape 07’s artists-led fringe exhibition, SAarts will exhibit works by selected artists and writers who have been featured on the site in the past year as well as artists to be featured in 2007.
The SAarts Emerging Exhibition: Cape Town 2007
will open on the
27th of March at
Vega, The Brand Communications School,
2nd Floor [...]
Stellenbosch is centrally situated between two freeways, the N1 and N2, 45 minutes from Cape Town, 20 minutes from the International Airport.
From Cape Town International Airport / N2:
Take N2 towards Somerset West
Take Exit 33 (Baden Powell) to get onto R310 to Stellenbosch
Drive approx 15km to T-junction
Turn right to Stellenbosch
At the 2nd set of traffic [...]
via atjoburg:
Upgrade! Johannesburg is proud to present:
The Art of Sound - James Webb presents his major gallery installations and
radio projects
James Webb is a leading South African sound artist with a growing
international reputation. He will discuss the challenges of his large-scale
sound installations including Prayer (2002); The Black Passage (2006) and
Autohagiography (2007); his collaborative radio projects [...]
Kind of modelled on the Turner prize, this competition works by open nomination for mid-career South African artists, then 10 semi-finalists are chosen by committee based on their work to date, 5 out of those will get a R20,000 budget - from proposals - to make a work or series (the stipulation from [...]
Ha. Is this Joburg’s answer to trans-cape07-notabiennale?
AVANT CAR GUARD
AVANT CAR GUARD secure funding from the World Art World. 2007
Tags: art, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, south african art, stimulus
Via DKW:
David Krut Arts Resource is a vibrant and ever-evolving organisation. Our latest venture is the opening of a brand new project and exhibition space at 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg. The new space, David Krut Projects, is an extension of the well-established David Krut Arts Resource up the road that incorporates a printmaking [...]
Nice issue of artthrob this month (feeling homesick). I’m not even going to get into it with Cape ‘07 (formerly TransCape, and now it’s DEFINITELY “not a biennale” in South Africa), but some other great stuff to report…
First, a little self-promo, Michael Smith engages with my work at Art on Paper. A snippet:
The work [...]
“The words were treated as a kind of incantation, as if they enveloped something of the desired event, contained its trace. Their repetition deposited a trace of the event in each of the contexts, gradually coloring the everyday world. Conversely, each context left its own trace in the words. It is as if the words [...]
