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07-07-07 Hello, my name is
HELLO, my name is, is the title of Juliana I. Smith’s installation for her final exhibition with MAPS, Master of Art in Public Sphere. The installation includes two video works, objects, and drawings mainly from performances she has done in public places. Juliana works with themes of chosen home (Wahlheimat), mobility, tourism and voluntary migration. Through MAPS, she had the opportunity to spend five months at Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg, South Africa. There she co-founded “Kazoo- it’s a live art thing” with Anthea Moys. They held their launch event last December at The Premises Gallery in
Johannesburg, and were the co-curators of Armed Response II at the Goethe-Insitut this past April. She recently had a video installation at the “6th International Symposium on the Aspects of Tourism”, at the
University of Brighton. Juliana’s theoretical work focuses on the “resident” artist versus the “insider” artist in Johannesburg, and makes comparisons to Berlin and New York. How does a place and site affect artwork? In a global and cosmopolitan city like Johannesburg, loaded with a violent history, turbulent politics is one able to make artwork without reflecting the environment?
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       Night Journey (installation at KZNSA)
 The Premises Gallery at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre presents
Colleen Alborough @ the premises
26 May – 9 June
Opening Saturday 26 May 5-7pm
An exhibition including the interactive video installation, Night Journey.
Each day we retreat to our bed, to the place that is so private, so familiar, so intimate. It lures us with its promise of comfort, protection, and restoration. In our beds we can escape the endless traffic, incessant noise and smothering fog, into the oblivion of sleep, transported to other worlds beyond the borders of ordinary perception. Night Journey explores and interrogates the epic journeys we embark on when the night shuts out our visible reality and gives free rein to our hopes, fantasies, dreams, fears and nightmares.
“I work in a variety of mediums, focusing on multimedia installations. I am very interested in creating experiential installations, that encourage the viewer to explore and interact with the work in order to complete the narrative of the installation. My art making process frequently involves ritualistic, labour intensive methods of production, such as felt-making. I use these methods to construct environments that attempt to embody some form of psychic reality.
The Night Journey interactive installation is accompanied by the artist’s limited edition book Before the Time (2007). This concertina book reveals the exploration of a solitary journey along a melancholic yet painterly stretch of road. The images search into the distance, trying to see beyond the isolation and apparent silence of the passing veld. The work attempts to capture traces of life in the land that momentarily reflect within our field of vision whilst on such journeys.
The Premises at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre
Loveday Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
www.onair.co.za/thepremises
thepremises@onair.co.za
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Tuesday – Saturday
10h00 – 17h00
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colleen alborough @ outlet: before the time
Before the Time (2007) is a limited edition, concertina artist book. It is an exploration of a solitary journey along a melancholic yet painterly stretch of road. The images search into the distance, trying to see beyond the isolation and apparent silence of the passing veld. The work attempts to capture traces of life in the land that momentarily reflect within our field of vision whilst on such journeys.
