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Sorry for the lack of postings lately, but as promised before the move to Dublin, that’s just how it’s gonna be (until such time as Bronwyn and Rat do the regular blogging they tentatively offered here; like most Joburgers, they’re busy with more than a handful of things, so…). OK, catch-up spanning (and doing little [...]
This past weekend has been a really great art weekend, with Simon Gush and Dorothee Kreutzfeldt’s performance ‘3 Point Turn’ at the Drill Hall’s Point Blank Gallery on Friday night and Nathaniel Stern’s ‘Call and Response’ at Art on Paper in 44 Stanley on Saturday afternoon. Here are some images from the performance in [...]
The SAarts opening, walkabout and panels went extremely well – the former attended by at least 150 people through the course of the evening. There are walkabouts every weekend (see schedule) for the next three weeks, and the show and catalogue look great, so I highly recommend your chaecking it out. Below are some photos [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Carine Zaayman says, on A R T T H R O B _ W E B S I T E S: ’Providing a free South African alternative to the gallery-driven, Cape Town-based, and mainstream media, SAartsEmerging.org is dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not [...]
Don’t forget the SAartsEmerging launch and party!
SAsrtsEmerging is featured on liquidfridge this month. Given that they asked me for an image, my guess is that it’ll be on Artthrob this month, too…. I like the unambiguous interplay of the pretense and pretence on the post – bloody Americans; why can’t they speak English?
SAartsEmerging launches today with a feature on Pretoria-born and bred Donna Kukama. In celebration, we’ve planned a cash bar hootenanny for emerging artists and art appreciators, alike: 9 February, 2006 Berlin Bar in Johannesburg, South Africa 7th street, Melville (across and down from Xai Xai) 18:30ish til whenev Features a site-specific installation by our own [...]
highlights from the last artthrob of 2005, and America (the book)
it seems that heads are heading to cape town this weekend for the sessions ekapa. will be coming out from my hide out to join the masses this summer and will try to get some pics whilst there. i don’t know about the Jozi dudes but cape town seems to be getting a lot of [...]
In Deshnoke, a small city in the northwest province of Rajasthan, India, pilgrims cross miles of scorching desert on foot to pay homage to Karni Mata, the Rat Goddess. Thousands of rats, believed to be the reincarnated souls of mystics, roam fearlessly through Karni Mata’s temple, even in broad daylight. Human worshippers bring the sacred [...]
Hans Haacke, news, 1969 / 2005, at the state of the union show, Paula Cooper Gallery You may have noticed a little bit of playing by Thando Mama on the blog over the past few days, as he gets to know the WordPress software — he responded to the artthrob article about how I’ve been [...]
