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05 February 2006 by nathaniel

artthrob artbio feature

Nathaniel Stern

Ralph Borland writes:

Nathaniel Stern is an artist, a teacher, a technologist, a blogger, a social catalyst and constant networker in the art community. As an artist, his works spans performance, poetry, interactive installation and video, net.art and print. … Nathaniel’s artwork often touches on the mutability of personal identity, as in his assumption of multiple personas through his video performance work. His ideas around the body, a centre in much of his art and his focus in recent academic work around The Implicit Body, speak of the body and person ‘enfolding’ the world around them into themselves, and so constantly transforming….. Read more

It’s a very generous and comprehensive overview of my current work, and most of my arts career. "ArtThrob is South Africa’s leading contemporary visual arts publication, reporting on the national arts scene and the involvement of South African artists in the international art world." See the full bio.

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02 February 2006 by nathaniel

PWO (post whites only)


still: dineo bopape

Kagablog, ex-guest blogger Aryan’s own space, writes about a showing of South African art he curated for the Rotterdam Film Festival (obviously, ironically titled – that’s info for my overseas readers who don’t know Aryan, who is, ironically, also ironically titled…):

post whites only digs deeper and provides an encounter with the more disturbing realities of the south african condition. identity is always a concern with artists working in a neo-colonialist context, and it is no surprise that some of the most rigorous and challenging work coming out of south africa today is directly concerned with interrogating issues of identity and self manufacture.

It’s a lucid and long post, detailing all featured artists and their works. He’s also been added to the ‘roll and the ‘reader. We miss him over here, but are also glad to see some consistent text about his other work online! See his daily – I would not call them rants. They are too articulate to be rants.  uuuuuuum – posts. My ‘sentimental deconstruction,’ A Song for The, is a video made sometime mid-last-year, specifically for the festival and at Kaganof’s request. It’s a ‘slammy’ exploration of growth and listening, inspired by conversations with my father, Marshall Blonsky and Edmundo Desnoes. There’s a hot line-up on Kag’s reel, and I hope he considers re-showing it in Joburg etc sometime soon!

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01 February 2006 by nathaniel

Scenes of Provincial Life


still from Kingfisher 0.9MB 10 sec loop

Michael Szpakowski, the brilliant artist, writer and personality behind alot of the JoyWar backing a couple of years ago (and a big supporter of Steve Kurtz) – as well as one of the core producers of DVblog – has started Scenes of Provincial Life, a new vlog of his own provocative QuickTime shorts:

A couple of years ago, I started making tiny QuickTime movies, as a kind of moving image dream diary. They quickly became a major focus of my work & I have made two or three at least every month since…

One of the things that excite me about the digital is that it makes possible a new sort of collaboration with both other artists and with non-professionals. Digitization makes the simple juxtaposition of different kinds of work straightforward, or enables a kind of framing process that, done sympathetically, enriches the work of both parties.

(Read more from the artist.) The videos, so far, range from Kentridge-like, sorrowful beauty, to quirky and experimental fluxus framing. Szpakowski’s mastery of re-mixing pop and historical culture/imagery feels like techno-poietic counsel for an ever-opening future-present, a sad co-celebration of the banal, and the possible. I want to collect them all…. Visit Scenes of Provincial Life.

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31 January 2006 by nathaniel

Kaganof’s Phone Film

The Sunday Times just covered Kaganof’s new project – a film shot entirely with cell phones:

‘Action!’ says the director for at least the 20th time in as many minutes, prompting the two female leads to start doing their thing at the pool table. As the girls hit the balls, chat and flirt, their movements are recorded by the cameras embedded in two of Sony Ericsson’s slick new W900i cellphones. That’s right: once this film, SMS Sugar Man, is completed, it will be the first feature film in the world to be shot entirely on cellphone cameras.

Read more.

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29 January 2006 by nathaniel

Next Wave Festival March 2006/ Call for work

There’s another great art / curatorial project coming up from Cape Town-based Ralph Borland, and this one is calling for work for him to bring to a big ole festival in Australia:

I am a South African artist looking to document or exhibit your work – artwork, design and technology projects, tools, appliances, activist campaigns, sampled objects, as well as music, games, publications and other media – for my contribution to the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Australia, in March 2006. The Next Wave Festival this year is part of the cultural program of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and it takes as its provocative theme the old name for the games – ‘Empire Games’.

I am acting as artist and curator, producing an exhibition and social space called ‘Sideshow’ within and around a shipping container, one of over 30 in a large warehouse space. My focus is on creative tactics for resistance and subversion.

For more information and images around the project, examples of the kind of projects I’m looking for, and information about myself and my work, please consult this link:

http://ralphborland.net/art/nextwave.html

For practical reasons, most projects will be represented through printed and digital documentation, except where the work does not need to be returned – there aren’t sufficient funds available for the transportation of work.

Please contact me at the email address below with information about your work. No large attachments to start with please. I look forward to hearing from you! I would also appreciate you passing this email on to appropriate forums and individuals.

Please contact me as soon as possible, and before the 20 February 2006.

Ralph Borland

His sideshow call for work uses has keywords:
progressive technology. appropriate technology. subversive technology. illegal technology/ political art. resistance art. subversive art. illegal art. brand art/ hacking. modding. sampling. remaking. satirising/ politricks. tricknology/ gallery. workshop. museum. carnival. clubhouse. shebeen. sideshow

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