A few weeks advance notice, but this is the show Doin’ my part to lighten the load was commissioned for. The JAMC site is also now live, and worth checking out – some great projects by my fellow South Africans!
Jozi and the (M)other City
8 September – 26 September
Michaelis Gallery, 32 Orange Street, Cape Town South Africa
opens 18h30 8 September
In the 50s and 60s, my dad used to write songs for Jimmy Radcliffe (who also sang at my folks’ wedding). Anyhow, a few covers of his hits have made it up to youtube, posted by various peops. This is one by none other than Phil Stern. My dad is sooooo cool :) Enjoy!
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXnR9CEZrt0]Acting on orders is a new project by the likes of South African artists Barend de Wet, Douglas Gimberg and Christian Nerf. Please note that this opportunity is only open to American citizens. Feel free to email your order today to MuseumOfContemporaryArt@gmail.com
Me? I asked them to share a really good cheeseburger. I’m admittedly unsure what all the images on their site are, but they are fascinatingly odd juxtapositions of the everyday along with notions of terror. I guess others’ orders were far more interesting than mine…. If you’re a citizen, please go ahead and outdo me.
Act 018, c. 2008, De Wet | Gimberg | Nerf
Acting on orders is part of the Emergence: Creative pioneers in uncharted territory show at ‘Commanders House’ (Building 14) on Governors Island, NYC. Other friends of implicit art on the exhibition include Avant Car Guard and Chris Jordan, and I’m sure the longer list of artists contains several other people I’d probably like to be friends with.
More info here. Check it out if in town.
update: apparently, “Act 020 has been produced in response to [my] command.” Ahem:
Act 020, c. 2008, De Wet | Gimberg | Nerf
It does look a bit like it could be a wrapped up cheeseburger, no?… So I guess it’s the artists and not the commanders who are more interesting than me.
I’ve done some work with Jeanette Ginslov in the past, and she often re-uses my CC / open source ware from elicit in her productions – in ways I never imagined or foresaw. Jeanette was an early adopter of new technologies in the dance world, and that goes double for the fact that she is based in South Africa. Should be interesting!
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Looking forward to seeing this show in joburg. MacGarry is also one of the lads behind Avant Car Guard…
From my inbox:
Michael MacGarry, The Fetish, 2008, Inkjet print on cotton paper, 56 x 86cm, edition of 10
When enough people start saying the same thing.
A solo exhibition by Michael MacGarry
Opens 18:00 Wednesday 16 July 2008 at Art Extra
Exhibition runs 16 July – 16 August 2008
For exhibition MacGarry will be showing a comprehensive body of new work that continues his concern with the ongoing ramifications of imperialism on the African continent, whilst evidencing a move away from the All Theory. No Practice. dogma that has defined his work for the past several years. Working in various media, from sculpture to large-scale photography and editioned bronzes, MacGarry uses temporal compression, fictional narratives, satire and the grotesque to explore current neo-colonial practices, notions of veracity, representational paradigms and the mechanics of political power at a domestic level as well as across the continent.
This exhibition runs concurrently with MacGarry’s commissioned entry for the MTN New Contemporaries 2008 at the University of Johannesburg Arts Centre, opening 10 July 2008.
Implicit Art friend Daniel Hirschmann shows in his first South African and first print-based exhibition, opening early next month at Resolution Gallery (and I’ll even get to see it while I’m in Joburg! I’m excited to visit the first/only “gallery of digital art” in South Africa, which opened only recently….). Born and raised in Joburg, studied at Wits and ITP / NYU, now a resident artist and designer in London, Daniel is an art and techno geek of monumental proportions; a glimpse of the kind of generatively produced and lovely work he’ll be premiering at RG can be seen in this flickr set. These are made through live camera captures that are then run through custom Macromedia Freehand scripts, if memory serves correctly….
Invite to the show, which also features work by Nils Eichberg and Olivier Schildt, below.
