SAartsEmerging » Ismail Farouk
SAarts has an awesome write-up on the artist’s work (by Rat Western). Sampling:
Whether it be a film on a continuous animated loop, a structured video installation, a performance work or a still image; there is a dynamism which occurs between Farouk’s geographer’s observations of the unfair logic of exchanges which characterizes urban living in the developing world today and his artist’s eye for rhythm, framing and irony.
From Paddy Johnson (via email):
Dear friends and colleagues,
This email is sent to announce Geeks in the Gallery, an Interview series between artists Michael Bell-Smith, Tom Moody, and myself which runs on Art Fag City <http://www.artfagcity.blogspot.com> from Monday June 12 (today [er, yesterday]) through Wednesday, June 14. I am particularly pleased with the results of this discussion as I think the artists do a excellent job at explaining some of tech concerns their art brings to the surface, as well as providing some very lively debate about these subjects and more. Tom Moody will be hosting comments <http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/comment/36471/> during this time on his site, so I encourage you to join us there for further discussion.Best regards,
Paddy Johnson
The closing party this weekend at Outlet went well – aside from the aforementioned NY Arts and MacFormat features on the series, also check out these glowing reviews in Die Beeld (English translation) and Pretoria News; there’s not a bad one on LQF, either. Abrie has decided to let the show run an extra week, so get out to TUT campus if you haven’t yet!
Finally, take a look at my flickr to see pix from the closing on Saturday, from the Memento performance yesterday, and new images of Sidonie – now 20 days old!
update – beeld article translation now live (rumor has it that the original Afrikaans is way more poetic, but you get the idea)
Art Fag City: Make Up Plan for the Worst. Week. Ever.
Thanks for the linkage, Paddy – and no worries; I understand those kinds of weeks :) Glad you liked the article and are sending peops over… Hope next week is better.
And in case you hadn’t heard, y’all, AFC is "simply the best and bitchiest blog on the contemporary and digital art-based galleries in chelsea."
I have that on good sources.
update: also linked from networked_performance along with memento – thanks, jo!
Note that the closing party is tomorrow @ 4pm in pretoria, and that the show has been extended an extra week til next Saturday! See today’s beeld and tomorrow’s pretoria news for reviews/features…
Time and Seeing
an exhibition of Compressionist prints
come have a drink with us, look at art,
and celebrate the birth of Sidonie Ridgway Stern (sorry, she will not be joining us)
Outlet gallery, Saturday 10 June, 16:00
earth (2006), metallic lambda print, 50 x 25 cm
Time and Seeing exhibits selections from nathaniel stern’s Compressionism – a "digital performance and analog archive.” Stern traverses bodies, spaces and objects with his scanner face, while the head is in motion. After being Compressed into digital images the size of a small sheet of paper, the files are then stretched, cropped and colored by hand. Compressionism is an exploration of media and perception, a transfiguration in Time and Seeing.
*The 11 pieces on show at Outlet are a preview for a large-scale exhibition of Compressionist works – ranging from photographic to traditional prints – in negotiation for early next year @ Art on Paper gallery, Johannesburg.
outlet
24 du Toit Street, Building 10, Projector Room, Arts Faculty, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Hours by appointment, +27 82 440 5406, outlet [at] mweb [dot] co [dot] za
more information @ http://compressionism.net and http://nathanielstern.com
One hour performance, drinks served. 52 7th Ave, Parktown North, Johannesburg South Africa
the release:
On 16 June 2006, South Africa celebrates the 30th anniversary of Youth Day. The act of remembrance is shaped by a multitude of senses ranging from sight, sound, physical touch and smell. This year Gallery MOMO invites you to join us in commemorating Youth Day through the experience of sound. On 11 June 2006 a group of artists including Nathaniel Stern, João Orecchia, Shane de Lange, Johan Thom and Dinkies Sithole will work together to create a sound sculpture to commemorate Youth Day. The artists will draw from their own, particular experience of life in contemporary South Africa to formulate a personal, aural response to the celebration of Youth Day. For example, both Shane de Lange and Nathaniel Stern are best known as artists working with digital media to create art: de Lange creates experimental sound by appropriating and sampling sounds from various sources including music, the body and even the sounds of a paper bag; Stern is known as a new media artist who uses interactive digital technology, often drawing the viewer and the artwork together in a new interactive, symbiotic whole. Other participating artists like João Orecchia, Johan Thom and Dinkies Sithole work with media such as musical instruments, video, performance and even their bodies to create experimental works that more often than not, refuse easy classification as ‘visual art’. Nonetheless, all the artists share a playful, experimental approach towards the creation and presentation of their work. In this way, each artist will prepare a series of aural responses to the commemoration of Youth Day. At 16h00, Sunday 11 June 2006, they will come together at Gallery MOMO and enter into dialogue with each other, and the audience, by creating a monument to Youth day through sound.
