Colleen Alborough is an artist living and working in Johannesburg. She completed her BA (Fine Arts) with distinction at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she is currently completing a MA (Fine Arts). Alborough also teaches part time at the same institution\u2019\u00c4\u00f4s digital arts department, focusing on digital stop frame animation and web design. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the past five years, which includes \u2019\u00c4\u00faHoming In\u2019\u00c4\u00f9 at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 2003.<\/p>\n
As an artist Alborough is interested in the intersection between traditional art media and new technologies. She has presented labour intensive environments and digital applications, which are combined into evocative and experiential spaces that foregrounds questions around identity, memory, social interactions and responsibilities and the exploration of self.<\/p>\n
\u2019\u00c4\u00faNight Journey\u2019\u00c4\u00f9 is an interactive environment that relies on viewer participation, and utilises technology that is highly experimental in the visual arts in South Africa. Inviting active engagement, the installation explores and interrogates the epic journeys we embark on when he nights shuts out our visible reality, and gives free reign to our hopes, fantasies, dreams, fears and nightmares.<\/p>\n
ARTISTS\u2019\u00c4\u00f4 STATEMENT:<\/p>\n
\u2019\u00c4\u00faMy work attempts to unlock an ongoing dialogue between viewer and space \u2019\u00c4\u00ec both real and imagined. It provokes a process of questioning and negotiation with the potential ambivalence we have to our physical and psychic worlds. The portrayed experiences in my installations are that of irreconcilable uncertainty, withheld desire, unspeakable fear. I explore this terrain in an attempt to disclose, release, acknowledge and share the \u2019\u00c4\u00fabetweens\u2019\u00c4\u00f9 in these ranges of emotions.\u2019\u00c4\u00f9<\/p>\n
The second instalment in the 2005\/6 Young Artists Project (YAP), an ongoing initiative by the KZNSA to support new work. Funded by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund and the Royal Netherlands Embassy.<\/b><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gonna be a treat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Night Journey – An installation by Colleen Alborough at KZNSA, KWAZULU NATAL SOCIETY OF ARTS Arrived in Durban yesterday evening (to help above-mentioned install her show), and the sea is already wonderfully under my skin; it’s stunning. Can you believe I got up at about 5Am this morning and just listened to the ocean? Drinks […]<\/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":[6,3,2,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-dO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":863,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/26\/themba-shibase-aidan-walsh-colleen-alborough\/","url_meta":{"origin":856,"position":0},"title":"Themba Shibase, Aidan Walsh, Colleen Alborough","author":"nathaniel","date":"26 October 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"left: Untitled, 2005 Well, in addition to the brilliant Colleen Alborough show I've been helping out with (and bragging about) for the last while (responses were amazingly positive), two other exhibitions opened last night. 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