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24 June 2006 by bronwyn lace

77/21: Bronwyn Lace @ Parking Gallery

Installation by Bronwyn Lace    Installation by Bronwyn Lace

Check out these fantastic images taken by André SC on his website www.pixelplexus.co.za of my show that opened on Thursday the 22nd. It’s at the Parking Gallery, 149 Pritchard, (www.parking-gallery.net) which is a fantastic new space initiated by Simon Gush and Lester Adams. If you missed the opening you can always call me for an appointment to view (0832844726). The next artist is our very own Nathaniel Stern for a one-night event on the 13th of July. There’s usually a bit of a party on the roof afterwards.

Installation by Bronwyn Lace

 

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17 April 2006 by nathaniel

in transit

As seems to be becoming routine as of late, I am yet again stealing Colleen Alborough’s bandwidth – this time her MWEB wireless at the Joburg airport, on my way down to Cape Town. Ralph Borland and I will be giving an extended workshop on Interactive Art at Stellenbosh University, him focusing on physical computing while I concentrate my efforts on various uses of interactive video. We’ll be mostly using Max/MSP+Jitter for my side, the BS2 for his.

I’ll see how my access down there is, but in the meanwhile and for your viewing pleasure, Bronwyn Lace has tossed me some images from her two recent solo shows at Outlet and KZNSA (below, installation entitled 1.618)…

Bronwyn Lace, 1.618 @ KZNSA

See more images here.

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13 April 2006 by nathaniel

SAartsEmerging is Artthrob website of the month

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 yet been, written about – but who should be.’ (http://saartsemerging.org/about-saartsemerging/). Even though ArtThrob might be one of the media entities against which they position themselves, I believe that they are doing good work and provide an important alternative platform that many young artists could and should be making use of.

Go us. Thanks, Zaayman!

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05 March 2006 by nathaniel

Hear and Now

Hear and Now at the Market Theatre, JohannesburgHear and Now at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, is co-directed by that award-winning team who gave us Tshepang: Lara Foot Newton and Gerhard Marx. It’s a kind of psychological drama with a few really great jokes and monologues.

At its core, Hear and Now is worth seeing if only for Gerhard’s trademark brilliant set design, and Lionel Newton’s performance as the lead.  The latter sometimes over-acts, admittedly, but from my perspective this has more to do with the workshopped script than his own abilities.  The details of character throughout are very strong but, as alluded to, the plot is heavily overdone (given its relatively light premise), and it turns too easily towards an/the end. I have to say that I also found some of the third person narrative structure a little condescending – I think we could figure a lot of it out, guys…

In all, tho, the piece makes me miss writing, makes me slightly jealous, makes me again want to beg Gerhard to collaborate with me. Only one day left for the show!

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