{"id":217,"date":"2003-10-04T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T22:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T08:49:02","slug":"through-lines-of-sa-art-or-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/04\/through-lines-of-sa-art-or-lack-thereof\/","title":{"rendered":"through lines of SA art, or lack thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy, am I exhausted. Renovating and moving are so tiring, and contractors NEVER
\nget it right (note that I’ve purposefully omitted the word seem<\/i> which some
\npeople seem<\/i> to think contractors deserve). Our place is a mess, with terrible
\njobs done, so we can’t move in properly, but we have no where else to live…
\nSigh. I feel dirty.
\nCape Town was good fun, and I’m glad I went. I believe that all<\/i> of the
\nwork exhibited is worthy of merit. But I’m also realizing that, on many levels,
\nI have no real grasp on the Zeitgeist of the South African art scene yet (I’m
\nspeaking philosophically now, not as if I’m going to change my conceptual framework
\nto try and match it). On the surface, it seems very European and performance based,
\nleaning towards the avant-garde; but then it surprises me. I’m just plain
\ncurious, and wish I had access to the BKAA<\/a>
\njudges and was able to ask why they made the decisions they did – I couldn’t see
\nany through-line. Some winners were purely formal and aesthetic, others provocative
\nand\/or political, some just plain cute. It’s nice to see such diversity of good
\nwork, but I’d be curious to hear where the judges were placing value, and then
\nto explore if this criteria is similar throughout the rest of SA. To me, I’m "failing"
\nif my art (a public service, I like to think) is not speaking to, and exploring
\nwith, viewers. Competitions and fame are far from the end-all, but they can be
\ngood indicators of successful provocation (my forte, again, I like to think :).
\nAnyhow… here’re some links:
\nThe Plame Game<\/a>
\n– must read American Poli \/ CIA \/ Veep \/ Rove stuff.
\nAnd in that vein, here’s some good news: Poll Shows Drop in Confidence on Bush Skill in Handling Crises<\/a>
\nBut here’s some bad: Senate
\nDefeats Tax Move in Iraq Spending Package<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy, am I exhausted. Renovating and moving are so tiring, and contractors NEVER get it right (note that I’ve purposefully omitted the word seem which some people seem to think contractors deserve). Our place is a mess, with terrible jobs done, so we can’t move in properly, but we have no where else to live… […]<\/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":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-3v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1379,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/10\/pixel-plexus\/","url_meta":{"origin":217,"position":0},"title":"pixel plexus","author":"nathaniel","date":"10 December 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you missing links and rants and good ole fun around art and design in the form of a South African blogger, I'm sorry to have disappointed as of late. 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