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About nathaniel
Nathaniel Stern is an artist and writer, Fulbrighter and professor, interventionist and public citizen. His work stages situations where bodies, concepts and matter are felt as relationally performed. http://nathanielstern.com
Nice 2-part feature on Haydn Shaugnessy and Fragments on Dream Not of Today coming out, with the first installment now live. A snippet and link: South of Cork near the very southern tip of Ireland rests the physical storefront of the Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery. The corporeal manifestation of this collection of contemporary art would be […]
Printmaker Jillian Ross, the manager and resident printmaker at David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, has a new web site live this week. She’s a great friend and a brilliant printer, thinker, maker and collaborator, who I owe a great debt to when it comes to opening my eyes to the experimental world of […]
Had a fairly productive week working on my dissertation, and am now off to Belfast for a self-proclaimed long weekend – to celebrate Sid‘s 2nd birthday, Nicole and my 6-year wedding anniversary, and my own birthday (all of these in the span of 2 weeks)! We’ve never been up to Northern Ireland, and I have […]
Fragments: GREAT ART for €40 Fragments provides a fabulous opportunity to own and collect great, new, contemporary art. All works in the series have been created by established artists specifically for this project by the Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery. Each Fragments artist revisits his or her existing work, and takes a fragment or detail or still […]
ESCAPE TO ROBBEN ISLAND (2008) On the 21st of March in 2007 Douglas Gimberg and Christian Nerf began their collaborative project with the somewhat austere brief ‘Build a boat, grow a beard’. Various exhibitions, events, interventions and intercessions, such as planting an apple tree in Paradise, translating Anton Szandor La Vey’s Satanic Bible into Afrikaans […]
