implicit art

Dani over at iCommons asked me to donate some art to the upcoming bring n braai, which is geared towards CC work in relation to child education in South Africa. I wanted to give something that was fitting and South African, so I went back into my archives and pulled up the performance poem I originally wrote for The Double Room, a multimedia piece about the discourse surrounding HIV, which premiered in Joburg in 2001, and subsequently won 3 FNB Vita awards. I’d never recorded it, so had to brush up a bit, but went ahead and made mp3’s of both the long version of the poem (the un-pronounce-able, 9:42) and a shorter version I edited down for use in the 2002 US National Poetry Slam competition, with Team Ithaca (the story, 3:16). Please distribute and re-mix at will! Info follows:

The title of the work: the un-pronounce-able, 9:42 and the story, 3:16
The name of the creator/copyright holder: nathaniel stern
Webpage or URL of the creator/copyright holder: http://nathanielsternn.com
The year in which the artwork was produced: written 2001 and 2002, respectively; recorded 2007
Contact details of the copyright holder: http://nathanielstern.com/details/contact.html
The question about South African culture that I think it would be useful for kids to explore through this content: How can we “contaminate” or “infect” each other in good ways? Can love, healing, and creativity be “infectious”?

Both under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence

Before the Time (2007) is a limited edition, concertina artist book. It is an exploration of a solitary journey along a melancholic yet painterly stretch of road. The images search into the distance, trying to see beyond the isolation and apparent silence of the passing veld. The work attempts to capture traces of life in the land that momentarily reflect within our field of vision whilst on such journeys.