{"id":963,"date":"2005-12-05T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2006-04-12T07:24:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T05:24:16","slug":"home-schweet-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/05\/home-schweet-home\/","title":{"rendered":"home schweet home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Johannesburg.  I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m actually back here. It feels oddly like I belong way more than any other place I&#8217;ve ever been.  And admittedly, that&#8217;s a new feeling. When people in NYC asked me about living in Jozi, I often replied, &quot;it&#8217;s completely exhilarating and utterly exhausting.&quot;  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have to explain to any South African (especially those in the public service: teaching, arts, etc) what that means.  But actually, I feel relaxed to be back in my space again.  Part of this may be that it&#8217;s familiar, another thing may be that now I have so many fab guest bloggers that I don&#8217;t need to stress about posting as much as I used to (still always looking for anybody who wants to post text \/ write!).  Bronwyn should totally send me her bio and a photo, tho, too.<\/p>\n<p>Unpacking, recovering from jet-lag, catching up on personal admin, and I hope to be out and about, writing about shows again, etc, by week&#8217;s end. In the meanwhile, I&#8217;ve got a few projects in the works: new money-making venture &#8211; to support myself a bit more; a young adult fiction novel I&#8217;ve started working on; a few proposals for art; upcoming chapter in book on cyberculture; thinking on whether or not to organize a solo and\/or begin looking for group exhibitions, in 06. I was thinking it&#8217;d be really nice to do the piece I had intended for The Kebbles somewhere, but who has the kind of money to get the equipment they had offered me? Maybe do a solo <a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\">Compressionism<\/a> show, or some experimental prints with Richard Kilpert&#8230; Thoughts, guys? And where do you think I should show? I&#8217;m open.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve missed you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Johannesburg. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m actually back here. It feels oddly like I belong way more than any other place I&#8217;ve ever been. And admittedly, that&#8217;s a new feeling. When people in NYC asked me about living in Jozi, I often replied, &quot;it&#8217;s completely exhilarating and utterly exhausting.&quot; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have to [&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":[6,26,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-compressionism","category-me","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-fx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":357,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/homeward-bound\/","url_meta":{"origin":963,"position":0},"title":"homeward bound","author":"nathaniel","date":"25 June 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"No more bets - Cuban art? You betya. Can you believe I'll be in Havana tomorrow? SO, again, you will not hear from me in a bit. I've been traveling, and am now in NYC (SO GOOD TO BE HOME!!!), tho I feel even more South African in NYC than\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art and tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art and tech","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art-and-tech\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":558,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/25\/sekoto-to-sihlali-nine-black-pioneers-of-south-african-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":963,"position":1},"title":"sekoto to sihlali: nine black pioneers of south african art","author":"nathaniel","date":"25 February 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"ephraim ngatane's snow on location Sjoe. Between these, Dumile Feni at JAG, and the current show at Siebrits (titled and pictured), Joburgers and South Africans at large are being inundated with amazing, contemporary work by South Africans of color, as of late. It's great. Perhaps it's a way to (finally)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":406,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/new-media-in-the-new-south-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":963,"position":2},"title":"new media in the new south africa","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 August 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, I know I said it'd be a few days until my next post, but it actually calms me to blog. (Dunn Hirschowitz is still a big fat incompetent poopyhead, who is aggressive in all the ways you don't want anyone's lawyer to be - yours, or your \"opponent's\". 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That last\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;re-blog tidbits&quot;","block_context":{"text":"re-blog tidbits","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/old-categories\/re-blog-tidbits\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/24\/life-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":963,"position":4},"title":"life learning","author":"nathaniel","date":"24 February 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"It's really amazing what teaching can teach you. I just got back from giving a lecture at The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) about \"postmodern narratives.\" This is not an easy topic, and it was to third year, undergraduate artists (not theorists), to many\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;south african art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"south african art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/south-african-art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1646,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/is-artthrob-gone\/","url_meta":{"origin":963,"position":5},"title":"is artthrob gone? (nevermind)","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 June 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It's back now. That was just weird. Wasn't working \/ was forwarding for about 24 hours... Has anyone else noticed that the leading site on contemporary South African art - and it's nearly 15 years of archives - is now forwarding to the default (and kinda sucky) arts section of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}