One of my favorite South African artists at one of my favorite South African galleries (disclosure: the latter is MY South African gallery):
8 - 31 October 2009
Opening on Thursday 10 October at 18:00
Preview by appointment
Walkabout with the artist on Saturday 10 October at 12:00
Colin Richards Parrot (African Grey) I (detail) 2009 [...]
awesome.
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hat tip: Ivan Durt (Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium)
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I had to post this beautifully understated new video work by Doron Golan.
Till Joseph flies to hide the biting tears (2008, 48MB, 5.20 min.)
Michael Szpakowski, also of DVblog, says (via rhizome):
…this is great & quite the strangest thing you’ve ever made. The tone is quite disturbing, made me quite nervous, but it’s [...]
I wrote this post on a long lost high school friend and current rock star a while back, and so it seems some Ingrid Michaelson fans (good taste ladies and gents) are winding up on my blog. If you are one of them, you should be aware of a live chat with Ingrid this weekend. [...]
I rarely look up a song I’ve heard on television. Maybe on a late night show now and again (I think I found Corinne Bailey Ray thanks to a meta-late night show, Studio 60), or something in a movie, but on TV, not so much. But after the third time I had turned to my [...]
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“elicit is a full body interactive installation that produces projected text in front of wherever the participant moves. Shown here is South African dancer Jeanette Ginslove using the piece” — more
This work is under a Creative Commons GPL license, and has been used in several multimedia performances since late 2001. See link above to download [...]
Gonna spend the next few hours converting and uploading videos and video documentation to youtube, in preparation for the new web site (probably going up in a week or three). Enjoy!
“funny slam poetry about identity as constructed through mass consumerism; eat was a site-specific video installation made for a solo exhibition at the Outlet Gallery [...]
via Lessig Blog (they do artist residencies, too!):
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