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{ Monthly Archives } December 2007

Spier Contemporary

South Africa’s new premiere, biennial, contemporary exhibition and competition opened last night in the Cape. Sounds like an amazing exhibition, with lots of young, new names whose careers will hopefully be launched through their wins. Sorry to miss it, but I’m sure there’ll be lots of coverage in the coming months. I feel like it [...]

(U)SA should listen to Tutu

Bishop Desmond Tutu seems to be one of few outspoken and visible Apartheid heroes that still speaks a lot of sense. The quotes below are from this article on the Mail & Guardian, where Tutu is talking about Mbeki and Zuma in SA, but I think America has a lot to gain from his insights, [...]

Social Networking

Today I did something embarrassing. It was the kind of thing that only an Internet neophyte does. See, I’ve been really focusing in on my blog lately and reading sites that talk a lot about good blog promotion and use of social networking and blah blah blah. So I finally decided that I should join [...]

dvblog feature

somehow missed this feature a few days ago:   Sentimental Construction (2007, 25.4MB, 6:31 min) Nathaniel Stern took a bit of a hammering in various quarters for this piece, made on a residency in Croatia. I think there’s an probably an element of you-had-to-be-there about this although, that said, I think the video is rather [...]

two shows i’m in on South Africa

Just found out that Art on Paper Gallery, who I often work with in Johannesburg, has been workin it for me a bit. Opened 18 November, Prints / Books / Lights at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban – I think this may actually be the first time I’ve shown there. I’ve got work from Call [...]