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20 January 2006 by nathaniel

SAartsEmerging launch and party!

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 Bronwyn Lace!

SAartsEmerging.org is dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not yet been, written about – but who should be. SAartsEmerging lacks any pretense of objectivity, and preference is not only given to Gauteng locals and friends, but also to early-career non-stars working conceptually, and across disciplines. We’re always looking for writers who want to feature burgeoning artists… More information on us or contributing? Visit the site!

SAartsEmerging features a new producer every third Friday of the month. 17 February will see our next feature, Bronwyn Lace, a Johannesburg-based, installation artist, just before her YAP solo show in Durban.

Hope to see you at the party!
Simon Gush, Bronwyn Lace & Nathaniel Stern
http://www.saartsemerging.org

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20 January 2006 by nathaniel

DVblog feature on at interval

Ah, how I love mutual respect and fondness.

at interval featured on DVblog
at interval featured on DVblog

michael szpakowski makes me sound cooler than I actually am by saying:

More remarkable work from Nathaniel Stern as he reworks, in the most curious of ways, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall.
Interesting that although the working method here seems almost diametrically opposed to the hands on, performative approach found in the odys series (dvblog 01/05/06) here too is that same sense of the fragility & vulnerability of human beings and their bodies & psyches & of the unreliability of the language we use to try & make what we want to happen & to relate or lie about what did .

Thanks, michael! See the feature and/or download the video from this DVblog link.

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16 January 2006 by nathaniel

at interval, 1977 / 2006

Spent most of the weekend working on a new video piece for the t-minus 2006 festival, an exhibition and DVD produced by Joshua Goldberg and Chris Jordan, New York City. It’s likely to be the first in a small series of "lapses," which play with time and language by compressing popular films into a different space of relation:

video still from at interval
video still from at interval

For at interval, I captured the entirety of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, then removed all spoken dialogue from the film. Time is slowed down, through emphasis on breathing, silence, mistakes, facial expressions and music between the text, and paradoxically sped up, through an immense shortening of the film – from one hour and thirty minutes, to just over thirteen. at interval compresses the movie by removing Allen’s characters’ lapses in judgment, and instead plays with time to accent similar impossibilities within language.

play movie
quicktime and javascript required, from browser not feed; 11.7MB pop-up window, 13:22

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11 January 2006 by nathaniel

intel Macs are here

the new macbook pro is awesome

Wow. The long-awaited intel dual core macs are here, and with a whole list of goodies. Starting with the MacBook Pro, a 15-inch machine with super-high quality screen, built-in iSight, and a processor FOUR TIMES faster than the last G4 books, I only await the updates for my wares, which are bound to come soon. The new iMac boasts speeds 2 Times faster than the G5, and we’ve also got FM radio and remotes for the machines and iPods, as well as new iLife and iWork Apps.

Me want.

Check them all out at apple.

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09 January 2006 by nathaniel

get your art on

Instead of going to the (closed) galleries in Johannesburg, and in a very successful procrastination of the chapter I’m meant to be working on for a book by Rodopi press, here are some of the art submissions I’ve been thinking on (you know it’s procrastination when you are are just thinking about submitting):

Deadlines range from 20 Jan to 3 April, but I’m not giving any clues – click the ones you like, and see where they lead you….

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05 January 2006 by nathaniel

the odys series featured on DVblog

the storyteller from DVblog
the storyteller on DVblog

DVblog, an awesome project that re-blogs video art from around the world and run by some of the net’s greatest stars, has a great feature on me and the odys series today!

Says the site:

This is work of huge ambition both aesthetically & technically & it’s brave and it’s edgy, sometimes to the point of being uncomfortable to watch. Neither does Stern fear engaging with complex & difficult ideas.

Definitely worth more than one viewing.

Makes me gush with warm fuzzies. Note that this series is also available compressed for iTunes and iPod – individually zipped or as a podcast – from odys for your iPod @ odys.org.

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