{"id":1568,"date":"2007-12-14T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T11:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/spier-contemporary-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T08:45:12","slug":"spier-contemporary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/spier-contemporary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spier Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"spier<\/p>\n

South Africa’s new premiere, biennial, contemporary exhibition and competition opened last night in the Cape. Sounds like an amazing exhibition, with lots of young, new names whose careers will hopefully be launched through their wins. Sorry to miss it, but I’m sure there’ll be lots of coverage in the coming months. I feel like it should be noted that Tegan Bristow’s piece, was not just a video, but also interactive – she’s a former student of mine and currently teaches in the Digital Arts department at the University of the Witwatersrand.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

And the winners are:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Abrie Fourie for his photographic works: Beverley Hills, Sunnyside, Pretoria 2007 and Changing Room, Hillcrest Swimming Pool, Pretoria 2007;<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Chuma Sopotela, Mwenya Kabwe and Kemang Wa Lehulere for their performance U nyamo alunampumlo (The foot has no nose), a work that explores African urban centres, through a hybrid of theatrical forms including live-feed video projection, living installations and live performance work;<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Bettina Malcomess, Rene Holleman and Linda Stupart for their performance Doing it for Daddy, a walking tour of the Spier Estate which reimages real and fictional histories;<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Nina Barnett and Robyn Nesbitt for their video Warcry, a challenging and thrilling look at the war cries of two Johannesburg schools;<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Andrew Putter for Secretly I will love you more, a haunting video installation based on three paintings in the Castle of Good Hope in which the portrait of Maria van Riebeek sings a Khoi Khoi lovesong-lullaby, celebrating her love for Krotoa, her adopted Khoi Khoi daughter; and<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Peter van Heerden for his performance Die Uitlander, the African and the Vrouw, which looks at the patriotism, dedication and resolve of African women.<\/p>\n

Receiving special mention were: Tegan Bristow for her video Chalk Vision; Bongani Joseph Khoza for his video On Trains with Bongani; and Kai Losgott and Anthea Moys for their video Unsaid.<\/p>\n

There is one more award still to be made. This is the People\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Choice Award.Anyone visiting the exhibition can vote for their favorite artwork. On 20 February 2008 when the exhibition will close on the Spier Estate, the final winner will be announced. The seven award winners will share the prize money of R700,000. All the prizes will be some type of self study, residency programme or another which promotes or progresses the artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s new premiere, biennial, contemporary exhibition and competition opened last night in the Cape. Sounds like an amazing exhibition, with lots of young, new names whose careers will hopefully be launched through their wins. Sorry to miss it, but I’m sure there’ll be lots of coverage in the coming months. I feel like it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[6,3,9,8,2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-pi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1535,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/eat-slam-poetry-video-installation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1568,"position":0},"title":"eat – slam poetry \/ video installation","author":"nathaniel","date":"05 October 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Gonna spend the next few hours converting and uploading videos and video documentation to youtube, in preparation for the new web site (probably going up in a week or three). 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