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29 August 2005 by nathaniel

new videos online

Since I’ve been talking about my excitement around working in linear video again, I thought I’d put some of it online. They’re both listed from the video works page on this site.

a song for the is the one I made for Kaganof’s upcoming Festival in Rotterdam (spent the weekend on it; the poem had been written for years). It’s a video poem about relationships and listening, and there’s even a very lo-res version of the piece available for download (5.5MB)! eat is an older installation I made for Abrie Fourie’s gallery in Pretoria, about identity construction through mass consumerism – and the download is even lower res (2.5MB). Enjoy!

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29 August 2005 by nathaniel

24, etc

som kids at 24 hour residency

Friday was a pretty fun day of working with hands, and Polite Forcing it around the downtown area with Nerf’s crew of (mostly student) artists. It became a kind of creative class of healthy, steady “makin’ stuff,” most of which was only interesting because of the odd collaborative process by which it was made, and I think that was the point of the experiment. My favorite part was when I got to make sculptures out of wood racks and cable ties…. Sometimes it’s nice to get away from the screen.

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26 August 2005 by nathaniel

24-hour residency!

Christian Nerf is taking some of the crit from Art South Africa and artthrob to heart. This time, his 24-hour residency is over a shorter span of time (eight hours per day for three days), and has a lot more people in a smaller space. The big difference, tho, is that short, specific tasks are given to the artists all day long, in order to insure collaboration, and work further towards complete “exhibit-able” art objects (I find this very amusing, in that the 24-hour residency concept’s strength is just that: its concept… it seems, however, that objects are still more than desired. Buh-dum-cha ;).

Anyhow, the new 24-hour residency project started yesterday, and artists can do between one and three days, as they see fit; I’ll be giving it my all from 9 – 5 today, and will let you know how it goes….

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