{"id":1158,"date":"2006-04-26T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T10:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/johan-van-der-schiff-at-bell-roberts\/"},"modified":"2006-04-26T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T10:46:56","slug":"johan-van-der-schiff-at-bell-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/johan-van-der-schiff-at-bell-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan van der Schijff at Bell-Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 6px; margin-bottom: 3px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nathanielstern\/134934362\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/56\/134934362_0bd4745e3b_m.jpg?w=850\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nathanielstern\/134934362\/\">Lazy Susan &#8211; an interactive installation<br \/>\nat Bell Roberts gallery<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an action shot of <i>Lazy Susan<\/i>, an interactive sculpture by Johan van der Schijff (right), at his solo show, which opened at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bell-roberts.com\/\">Bell-Roberts gallery<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>An ironic and explicitly phallic interplay between weaponry, technology, culture and comedy, Johan&#8217;s exhibition &#8211; his first solo in SA in about 8 years (if I&#8217;m not mistaken) &#8211; was aptly titled <i>Power Play<\/i>. Deliberately male and dominant, Johan&#8217;s aesthetic entry points ranged from cooky, erect juxtapositions and orifice-infested media, to fun and easy-to-use mechanical interactions &#8211; look, ma! it follows me! In short, the show makes us all smile that uncomfortable smile that, if you&#8217;ve met Johan personally, you&#8217;ve probably seen on <i>his<\/i> face once or twice&#8230;<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy Susan &#8211; an interactive installation at Bell Roberts gallery Here&#8217;s an action shot of Lazy Susan, an interactive sculpture by Johan van der Schijff (right), at his solo show, which opened at Bell-Roberts gallery last night. An ironic and explicitly phallic interplay between weaponry, technology, culture and comedy, Johan&#8217;s exhibition &#8211; his first solo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,24,9,25,2,19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-flickr","category-pop-culture","category-reviews","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-iG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1383,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/avant-car-guard\/","url_meta":{"origin":1158,"position":0},"title":"avant car guard","author":"nathaniel","date":"14 December 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I have no idea what they sound like, or even if this is real, but don't you want to buy this album? 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