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| August 2010 |
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David Krut Print Project Workshop: Aug - Sep
Every Thurs 12 - 2pm |
| David Krut Print Project Workshop |
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David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) is pleased to announce that our second location at Arts on Main is open. Continuing on the strength of our first workshop, printmakers Jillian Ross and Mlungisi Kongisa will be collaborating with local and international artists to produce editions and unique printed works on paper. Printing 6 days week, we aim to offer a unique experience for both artist and audience.
For the months of August and September, the workshop will be printing from 12 - 8pm on Thursday nights. Artists Maja Maljevic and Richard Penn will be creating monotypes during this period. Members of the public are welcome to view the work in progress. New editions from Deborah Bell, David Koloane, William Kentridge and Diane Victor are currently on view in our gallery and bookstore.
The bookstore continues to provide a variety of publications on Souh African and international arts, design, culture and knowledge.
David Krut Projects in Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, will be exhibiting new work from Stephen Hobbs, opening on the 12th of August at 6pm.
For more information on our printing programmes and editions please contact us:
Arts on Main - 011 334 1209 / Shaun Marais shaun@davidkrut.com
140 Jan Smuts Ave - 011 880 4242 / Taryn Hackett taryn@davidkrut.com
www.davidkrutpublishing.com
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Bailey Seippel Gallery: 22 Aug - 31 Oct
Opening 22 Aug, 12-2pm |
| Ranjith Kally Retrospective |
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Between the 22 of August and the 31st of October, the Bailey Seippel Gallery will run a solo exhibition with Drum photographer Ranjith Kally.
This exhibition will showcase iconic images from his career during the 50' and 60', ranging from photos of child labour in the Natal sugar cane fields to images from the jazz, dance and social scene.
Ranjith Kally, who turns 85 years old this year, will be present at the opening.
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| Bailey Seippel Gallery: 21 Aug - 03 Oct |
| Mbongeni Buthelezi |
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The next exhibition is showing Mbongeni Buthelezi, Title "Mbongeni Buthelezi Abstracts"
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GoetheonMain: 16 Aug - 24 Oct
Opening 16 Oct, 6:30pm |
| George Diez, Christopher Roth and guests |
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From 16 August until 24 August the German artists George Diez, Christopher Roth and guests will take over GoetheonMain, using it as the base for their project 80*81 (www.8081.biz).
80*81 looks at the events which took place around New Year's in 1980/81 from new perspectives, challenging common ways to view history - even trying to change the common perception of it by the use of artistic means.
During the time the project takes place, visitors are welcome to stop by at GoetheonMain any time to watch its progress. Besides other public events, which will be announced on the website of the Goethe-Institut, the project includes the screening of a film about the Grand Hotel in Mozambique's second-biggest city Beira, an art project by Christopher Roth and Franz von Stauffenberg which stood at the beginning of 80*81.
The highly awarded German artist and performer, Anne Tismer, who worked at the Schaubühne with Thomas Ostermeier and recently at the Avignon Theater Festival with Falk Richter, will accompany the group to film and to perform in Johannesburg.
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jozi art: lab and BLV Projects: 5 Aug
Opening 5 Oct, 6 for 6:30pm |
| Anne Sassoon: "Ghost Memory and other Painting" |
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Anne Sassoon is a South African artist who lives and works in Jerusalem. She began drawing and painting in the 1980s, when her figurative work sought to capture the complexity of human relationships in apartheid South Africa. Her drawings made during political trials of the 1980s were often published in the Rand Daily Mail. She has exhibited her work in London, Berlin, New York and elsewhere since the 1990s and is represented in many collections, including the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Constitutional Court, Wits University Galleries, the Durban Art Gallery, the Sasol Collection, as well as collections in London and Jerusalem.
Ghost Memory and Other Paintings comprises works on paper, completed during a recent residency in Cape Town. These delicate and poignant works draw on a number of sources: the iconic Mt Fuji paintings of Hokusai, illustrations from a Victorian encyclopaedia, comic books, film stills, images of the American deep south, and Cape Town's own slave history. These disparate themes and sources are drawn together in Sassoon's own remembering of the city of Cape Town.
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| Studio 23 at Arts on Main : August from 10:30 till 4:30 |
| Norman Mankowitz: Johannesburg in space and time, with entropy and poetry, or this is not astronomy |
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This is an exhibition of photographs
For more information, please contact Norman on 082 880 7557 orgololo@iafrica.com
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| July 2010 |
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Arts on Main Courtyard
Right in the Rim: 26, 30 June and 3 July |
| Africa on Screen Film Festival |
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Screening
26 June: Moving to the Beat
30 June : Princess of Africa
3 July: Jozi
For more information, please call
Right on the Rim: 073 718 9831
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GoetheonMain: 25 Jun - 4 Aug
Opening 25 Jun, 7pm |
| Pascale Marthine Tayou: "LooOoBhY n*50" |
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Tayou's work reminds us that identities are defined in terms of relationships. His exhibitions celebrate the inventive rearrangement of the mosaic of everyday objects in ever-new constellations.
With LooOoBhY no50, GoetheonMain becomes part of a project started in Cameroon in the middle 1990s when Tayou founded a collective through performances linking everyday life with the Utopia. For GoetheonMain Tayou has created three site-specific installations capturing phenomena in Johannesburg: security doors, ordinary objects and play areas.
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Bailey Seippel Gallery: 10 Jun - 10 Aug
Opening 1 Jul, 4pm-6pm |
| "The Beautiful Game" |
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An exhibition of historical football stories and images from the pages of Drum and Post.
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| June 2010 |
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| Canteen |
| World Cup Screenings |
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Canteen will be screening the following games:
Please note that we have limited space and booking is essential
| 11 June |
16h00 |
South Africa vs Mexico |
| 12 June |
16h00
20h30 |
Argentina vs Greece
England vs USA |
| 13 June |
20h30 |
Germany vs Australia |
| 15 June |
16h00
20h30 |
Ivory Coast vs Portugal
Brazil vs Korea |
| 16 June |
16h00
20h30 |
Spain vs Switzerland
South Africa vs Uruguay |
| 17 June |
20h30 |
France vs Mexico |
| 18 June |
20h30 |
England vs Algeria |
| 19 June |
13h00 |
Netherlands vs Japan |
| 20 June |
16h00
20h30 |
Italy vs New Zealand
Brazil vs Portugal |
| 22 June |
16h00 |
South Africa vs France |
| 23 June |
16h00
20h30 |
England vs Slovenia
Germany vs Ghana |
| 24 June |
16h00
20h30 |
Italy vs Slovakia
Cameroon vs Netherlands |
| 25 June |
16h00
20h30 |
Portugal vs Brazil
Spain vs Chile |
From the Second round onwards, all games will be screened.
Bookings essential: 011 334 5947
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Daffonchio Architects Projects at Arts on Main : 5 June - 31 August
Opening 3 June, 20:00 |
| Pedersen + Lennard |
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| Main Street Life (one block from Arts on Main) : 5 June, 22:00 |
| Afroflamenco In Johannesburg |
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Concert
Seven Spanish international artists meet the Soweto Spiritual Singers, violinist Tshepo Mngoma, guitarist Bheki Khoza and others.
Entry: Free
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| David Krut Bookstores and Canteen :
Ongoing |
| World Cup Soccer Posters |
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David Krut Projects and Bookstore is proud to be an official distributor of a series of limited edition posters for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Seventeen international artists with a special relation to the African Continent, celebrities as well as emerging talents, have made football their subject and have created beautiful and extraordinary works. Although very different in style, each of the works expresses the artist's support towards the games in Africa and pays homage to the 'beautiful game'.
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| Right on the Rim : 30 May- 20 June |
| Samson Mnisi |
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The history of masks in South Afrika does not exist but all South Afrikan contemporary artists have one way or the other produced masks or were influenced by them. I have always been fascinated by masks especially ''indigenous'' ones, I found masks to be powerful and moving.
Therefore I have been on a quest to find original South Afrikan ritual masks. I hope this is a continuity of discovery of a ritual that is South Afrikan.
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| May 2010 |
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Goodman Gallery, Upstairs Event Space : 23 May - 17 July
Opening 23 May, 11:00am |
| IN CONTEXT |
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Goodman Gallery, the Goethe-Institut, Culturesfrance, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), the City of Johannesburg, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Galleria Continua, the British Council, the Apartheid Museum, the Kirsh Foundation, and Nirox Foundation are pleased to announce In Context, a series of exhibitions, installations, performances, and interventions in Johannesburg.
In Context presents a diverse group of international and South African artists who share a rigorous commitment to the dynamics and tensions of place, in reference to the African continent and its varied and complex iterations, and to South Africa in particular. The works - wide-ranging, frequently provocative - engage with a number of pressing questions about space, context, and geography.
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| Pierre Crocquet Studio : 23 May – 18 July 2010 |
| Pierre Crocquet: Pinky Promise |
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"he told me to pinky promise not to tell anyone what just happened…"
Progressing from Enter Exit (Hatje Cantz 2007), which dealt with the psyche of a small community, Pinky Promise continues to explore the unconscious. It concentrates on one aspect of the self - that of childhood wounds.
Pinky Promise is a project about the sexual abuse of children, early childhood trauma,
and their subsequent healing. This work in progress reveals the lives of both victims of
child sexual abuse, as well as the perpetrators of sexual abuse against children.
Pinky Promise will be launched as an exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery from September 2011 to November 2011. This first installation in the artist’s studio serves to introduce the project and allows him to explore different treatments of the material.
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Jozi art:lab: 16 May – 29 August
Opening 16 May, 11:00 - 14:00 |
| Achim Mohne/ Uta Kopp: Remote Words- Redefining an Urban Landscape |
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Opening speech by Sandile Ngidi
afterwards discussions with the artists and curator Indra Wussow
REMOTEWORDS (Achim Mohné/Uta Kopp) is a long-term art project to install messages on roofs. Virtual programs like Google Earth, give them a worldwide coverage. The messages are mounted in durable form as giant, bright letters. The site and the message are conceptually a semantic unit.
Jozi art:lab enabled this artwork as a collaboration of a visual artist group and a writer, both working together to explore the spirit of Johannesburg and its different districts and suburbs. What is the idea of a place, how can you express the idea of a place in a short message that will give passers by and connoisseurs both a clue about what makes this city a special one.
The exhibition project "REDEFINING AN URBAN LANDSCAPE" extends the concept of REMOTEWORDS into a virtual game for the people of Johannesburg to participate in. A huge satellite image to walk into invites the visitor to mark a roof of his choice and take part in reshaping the urban landscape around ARTS on MAIN. The focus is the transition of Doornfontein and the rapid change of the urban landscape, forced by evictions and relocations in former times, nowadays by transformations as a result of the abolition of apartheid structures. The blog www.remotewords.net contributes to the discussion.
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| Jozi art: lab - 16 May, 2pm |
| Niq Mhlongo: Reading and discussion |
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Niq Mhlongo is one of the most successful South African writers of the last years and depicts in his novels the changes and transformations of the society and the urban landscapes of South Africa, namely of Soweto and Johannesburg. In his reading he will introduce his city in his writing and will afterwards talk with us about social transitions, changing landscapes and how literature might reflect them and how fiction might work with local and historical preconditions.
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| Jozi art: lab - 20 May 2010, 19:00 p.m. |
| Daughters of Tomorrow |
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Performance with Lebogang Mashile
and Thato Nhlapo
Born in the U.S. in 1979 as a daughter of South African immigrants Lebogang Mashile is one of the most popular poetry performers in South Africa. Her poems are focussing topics like spirituality, identity, gender issues and the socio-political conditions in South Africa. The performances of Lebo Mashile have especially strong impact on the younger female poetry in South Africa. Her powerful poetical language is of exceptional musicalness.
In March 2010, Indra Wussow started together with the german publishing house Das Wunderhorn a new series called AfrikAWunderhorn, presenting contemporary African literature to german readers. The series started with a bilingual edition of "Daughters of tomorrow" by Lebo Mashile, translated from South African English into German by Arne Rautenberg. The edition is accompagnied by a CD with all poems read by Lebo Mashile.
On 20 May Lebo Mashile will also introduce the young poet Thato Nhlapo to the audience at jozi art:lab at Arts on Main, Doornfontein.
Portrait of Lebogang Mashile on german broadcast "Deutsche Welle"
(13.4.2010, by Ute Gruntkowski)
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| Jozi art: lab - 16, 17 May, 19:00 |
| Tempered Souls |
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a dance piece by Itumeleng Mokgope
Contribution to "Football meets Culture"
This dance piece aims to interrogate the different meanings generated by the notion of the car tyre. In the industrial urban landscape the tyre has come to represent not only the possibility of metropolitan forms of transportation, but also the ideas that emanate from such projects where the circle is invested with speed to negotiate rough geographical landscapes. Consequently, the tyre arguably serves to masquerade the ideas of subjugation and control, ideas central to power. In the Congo, the African subject was coerced into working in the rubber fields. All those who opposed this project had their hands cut and collected into heap. The fear implanted in those who witnessed the cutting and consequently mounted the rubber trees invested the tyre with their souls. The legacy of the tyre, its acquisition and production, is implicated in the development of our capitalist societies. Consequently, in the contemporary imagination, the tyre is fraught with ideas of subjugation, control and dispossession, ideas central to modern perceptions of a capitalist world.
idea and choreography: Itumeleng Mokgope
music: Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-1963)
Quatuor à Cordes No. 1 "Carillon" (1933)
recording: Doelen Kwartett, Rotterdam, 2008
Frank de Groot, Maartje Kraan (Violin)
Karin Dolman (Viola)
Hans Woudenberg (Violoncello)
kindly supported by Cybele records
directed by Indra Wussow
dancer: Itumeleng Mokgope
70 used tyres
This production of jozi art:lab premiered on 26th March, 2010 at the Battery Centre in Kliptown in Soweto.
Thanks to our partners SKY (Soweto Kliptown Youth) and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg.
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| Seippel Gallery: Opening 16 May, 11:00 - 13:00 |
| Auke de Vries: A Gentle Invasion |
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Sculptures for South Africa
Tel. 011-334 6023, Cell 076 916 0157
The Artist will be present.
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| Atrium of Arts on Main : 16 May, 4pm |
Music for the contemporary mind
Together - a concert of contemporary music of the early 21st century |
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Mpho Molikeng on lesiba, Lukas Ligeti electronic percussion and drums, Carlo Mombelli bass;
Programme:
Electronic percussion solo music - Lukas Ligeti
Basotho music - Mpho Molikeng
Spontanuous Interpretations - Carlo, Lukas, Mpho
Where: in the Atrium of Arts on Main (entrance 245, Main Street)
Organised by:
Sponsored by:
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| Atrium of Arts on Main : 9 May, 4pm |
| Music for the contemporary mind: a concert of composers of the early 20th century |
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Waldo Alexander (violin), Renette Bouwer (mezzo), Jill Richards (piano)
Programme:
Webern: Eight early songs
John Cage: Six Melodies for violin and keyboard (piano)
Berg: From songs op. 2
Schoenberg: Phantasy for Violin and Piano, op. 47
Meet the expert: Dr. Christian Meyer (director of the Schoenberg Centre in Vienna) explains why these composers turned the classical music world upside down in the 20th century at 3:30 pm before the concert.
Concerts in the Arts on Main Atrium
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| GoetheonMain
5 May, 7pm |
| Sunny Land: Film Screening and Discussion |
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There are countless Sun Cities in the world. Perhaps the most famous and certainly the most bizarre of these is Sun City in South Africa, a huge resort with a disco, casino and swimming pools two hours north of Johannesburg by car. It was built in the 80s, when the Apartheid system was attempting to prevent any sort of encounter between black and white. Under the banner of supposedly apolitical entertainment, a tourism laboratory was set up here, a zone simultaneously real and unreal. Sun City was the epitome of apartheid culture while at the same time it offered an escape from the apartheid laws for some. The film makes this recognizable.
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| April 2010 |
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| GoetheonMain : 29 April, 7pm |
| Panel discussion with Caroline Wanjiku Kihato & Terry Kurgan |
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Migration, tourism and xenophobia through the lens of photography and film.
Proposed Format: Lecture/Discussion with Visualization (images and film excerpts).
This panel discussion wants to ask about the similarities and differences between the perception and images of migrants and tourists - both temporary city dwellers - in Johannesburg.
What has been the development in the way migration and tourism are discussed and portrayed after the ‘xenophobic’ attacks in 2008 and on the way to South Africa being the host of the Soccer World Cup this year in 2010? Often migration and tourism are seen as totally different activities, yet it might be thought-provoking to also establish some analogies, both involve the mobility of people across borders into situations that may be ‘foreign’ for them, and where they themselves may be perceived as ‘foreigners’. Another strand of the discussion focuses on the practices of image production and consumption and how images may inform mentalities and opinions.
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Caroline Wanjiku Kihato will present some parts of her work on ‘Visualizing Migration’ - a photo project she did together with photographer Terry Kurgan during which Zimbabwean Migrant Women took their own images of their life situation. Concepts of ‘talking back’ strategies, self images, and subjectivities will be discussed.
Terry Kurgan will present her new project ‘Hotel Yeoville here.
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| Right on the Rim : 22 April - 24 April: Showing at 7pm |
DAAD presents:
Extra Time: German-South African Research Lecture Series on Soccer - March - May 2010
Extra Time: A Series of Films on Soccer - 20-23 April 2010
DAAD Rainbow Cup - 22 May 2010 |
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DAAD Presents: Extra Time - A Series of Events on Soccer
How does football, or soccer, contribute to the ethics of non-violence and fairness? Will the 2010 FIFA World CupTM boost social cohesion and nation building in South Africa, and promote the integration of the continent? Is the change of the game able to provide us with a model for the description of societal change in general?
These are just some of the debates that will be raised during the upcoming DAAD German - South African Lecture Series on Soccer.
The "Extra Time" project will link the two host countries of 2006 and 2010, and celebrate the occasion of the first ever World Cup on African soil. It aims at inspiring public debate on the social and cultural dimensions of soccer. The seven lectures will take place in those World Cup host cities which are also university cities. Each lecture event will showcase African and German academic excellence in team play
In addition, the DAAD will showcase a series of feature and documentary films on soccer. The selection will span the globe and focus on soccer, society and culture. Partners are a number of university German Departments in South Africa and the Goethe Institute Film Archive.
After a conference on Sports Mega-Events last December, the DAAD is also supporting the joint conference Sport & Passion of the German Language Associations in Africa; hosting Rainbow Cup tournaments with international students, DAAD scholarship holders and alumni in Germany and South Africa, and co-operating with the Goethe Institute's soccer youth camp for African partner schools during the Cup in Johannesburg. A stay in Germany will be awarded to the winners of the DAAD's Creative Work Contest: students from 1st year to PhD are invited to participate.
Last but not least, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin programme will make major contributions to the arts programme around the World Cup as well as to "Football Meets Culture" - the German - South African Cultural Weeks from 13 May to 11 July.
All events are open to researchers and students as well as to the non-academic soccer fan or observer. Entrance is free to all events.
Extra Time: A Series Of Films On Soccer @ ArtsonMain Event Space
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Fri 23 April* |
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Football under Cover
Courtesy Goethe Institute Film Archive |
The Champions
Courtesy Goethe Institute Film Archive |
The Miracle of Bern
Courtesy Goethe Institute Film Archive |
More than Just a Game
Video Vision Entertainment |
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Ginga: The Soul of Brazilian Football
6sales |
Black Startlets
taglichtmedia |
More than Just a Game
Courtesy Video Vision Entertainment |
Live Performance of 'Newtown' - Jozi Soul |
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Studio 21 Event Space : 245 Main St, City & Suburban
24 April 2010 16h00 | Opening by David Koloane |
| PAULINE MARCELLE - Bend Down Boutique - Joburg Works |
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Traumas of disarticulation, fragmentation, fracturing and indeterminacy are central in Pauline Marcelle’s work, and shows in this exhibition a room-filling installation, which reflects on the consumption of second hand clothing mainly in African countries raising challenging questions about the effects of globalisation and the meaning of the West and the other Nations since consumers attribute to objects at different points of their journey across global space.
Second hand clothing supports hundreds of thousands of livelihood in developing countries. The act of buying is called ‘ukudunusa’, meaning to ‘bend down’ and rummage in the Zulu language and these markets are called ‘boutiques’ to give the stalls prestige. In South Africa, these Bend Down Boutiques are called ‘amahewa’ - a bastardised version of ‘here you are’ and in Ghana where the initial concept of Bend Down Boutique evolved, they are called “obroni wa wo”, literally meaning “clothing of the dead whites”. Pauline Marcelle’s work engages photography, painting and installation.
The digitally manipulated prints are reworked by painting over it, filling the deep airy contours with primary colours until final compositional abstract forms have been achieved - this layering of mechanical reproduction and painting, to the point where distinctions between hand and machine are difficult to recover. Marcelle adapts these digital images to painterly parameters - “recomposing” them into pictorial form and unity - continually entering into relations, composing relations and “recomposing” relations.
The conundrum of the painterly and the photographic characterises Marcelle’s works. Her huge canvases dominate the space they occupy, absorbing the viewer taking one down with the metaphor bending down. Her paintings are complex, floating and plummeting, tangled and piled up in mounds of colourful clothing - but soft as second hand cashmere, “I like the new works as they are soft, not aggressive - like the video Paradogs”.
Paradogs
The video installation Paradogs musically accompanied with quintet no. 2 composed by Johannes Brahms leaves a high definition contrast of the strong survive. Usually the winner ends up on top and the loser on the ground. The Topdogs and Underdogs perform their executive ballet. Superpowers and social animals demonstrate their natural abhorrence of conflict in lofty heroism and the entertainment summit negotiates between positioning and submission, collaborating interactions of combat and gamble.
Curator Andile Magengelele
Pauline Marcelle
24a 10th Street
2092 Melville
Johannesburg SA
+27 72 659 0293
pm@paulinemarcelle.com
www.paulinemarcelle.com
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| Right on the Rim : 22 April - 24 April: Showing at 7pm |
| Legendary Movies |
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Movies by Ernst Lubitsch with the first appearance of Marlene Dietrich as the main character ('Der blaue Engel') and the most famous movies by Fritz Lang will be shown ( 'M - A City Looks For A Murderer').
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Nirox Project Space : 8 April - 22 April
Opening 8 April, at 7pm |
| Santu Mofokeng |
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Santu Mofokeng is a laureate of the 2009 Prince Claus Awards. He receives the award for his contribution in the category Photography.
The relationship of Culture and Nature is a subject of interest and in 2009 the Fund highlighted artists and organisations whom made a contribution to this category.
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Seippel Gallery : 1 April- 18 May
Opening 1 April, 6pm-8pm |
| Mbongeni Buthelezi, Linda Shongwe |
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Mbongeni Buthelezi, Plastic Paintings, in the main space
Linda Shongwe, paintings, in the project space
For more details or direction please call Juliet 071 2270 910 or email
baileyseippelgallery@gmail.com
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Bailey Seippel Gallery : 01 April-18 May
Opening 1 April, 6pm-8pm |
| Here and There: Paul Weiner |
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Opening Speech by Charlene Smith
For more details or direction please call Juliet 071 2270 910 or email
baileyseippelgallery@gmail.com
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Right on the Rim Project Saloon : 27 March - 18 April
Opening 27 March |
| Dialogue South Africa - Austria |
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New art works resulting from that dialogue and a review of what was the product of this dialogue during the past year: Parade, White Paint Wash, Football Dialogue, Visualised Poetry ...
Supported by
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| Goodman Gallery Project Space : 18 March-10 April 2010 |
Kudzanai Chiurai
Communists and Hot Chicken Wings: The Birth of a New Nation |
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Kudzanai Chiurai extends his foray into the murky world of African politics with a new
installation at Goodman Gallery Project Space, Johannesburg. Taking his cue from a series
of large-scale photographs critiquing the representation and aesthetics of political power
produced for his solo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Cape in 2009, Chiurai moves the action
forward with a series of large linocuts, an oversized mural, and the fictional remains of a
presidential assassination.
Though he is known primarily as a painter, Chiurai extends his practice to a broad public
engagement not always possible in the confines of the white cube. His work as a producer,
editor, and designer is often located in informal networks and situations and is intimately
connected to his political activism. This wide-ranging approach to making art is demonstrated
in a body of work that embraces photography, publishing, music, public art, and fashion.
COMMUNISTS AND HOT CHICKEN WINGS: THE BIRTH OF A NEW NATION brings
together these various strands, and showcases Chiurai's searing and ironic take on the
confluence of sex, money, and politics in contemporary South Africa. A new publication edited
by Chiurai, with contributions by leading creatives, accompanies the exhibition.
Kudzanai Chiurai was born in Zimbabwe, and currently lives and works in the city of
Johannesburg. He completed a BAFA at the University of Pretoria and has participated in a
number of local and international group exhibitions, including the Dakar Biennale, Senegal;
Africa Now, a travelling exhibition in Scandinavia; as well as New Painting, a local travelling
exhibition in 2006.
The Goodman Gallery has exhibited his recent work at PhotoParis 2009, the 2010 Armory fair
in New York, and Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. His work is represented in the collections of
Iziko South African National Gallery, BHP Billiton, and Nandos UK, amongst others.
For more information, please contact
emmal@goodman-gallery.com
T. +27 (0)11 788 1113
F. +27 (0)11 788 9887
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| March 2010 |
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| Right on the Rim Project Saloon : 26 - 28 March |
| JOBURG FRINGE 2010 VIDEOart: 11 international plus 11 South African video artists |
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Right on the Rim c/o The Bioscope @ Arts on Main
26 March 7pm with a glass of wine at 6pm
Right on the Rim Project Saloon
27 March, 10am - 8pm
28 March, 10am -4pm
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| Right on the Rim Project Saloon : 28 Feb - 20 March |
| Georg Bernsteiner, James de Villiers & Steve Kwena Mokwena |
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Georg Bernsteiner, Austria, and James de Villiers, South Africa will be working in Right on the Rim from March 1 to March 24 on the different dimensions of living in Johannesburg. James de Villiers will also be showing his 'Earth & Sky' exhibition dealing with decay, transformation and random patterns in nature.
EVENTS
Sun 28 Feb, 11 am - opening of James de Villier's 'Earth & Sky'
Sat,13 March, 2 pm - Artist talk Georg Bernsteiner and James de Villiers on their artistic response to life in Johannesburg
Sat, 20 March,6 pm - opening of Georg Bernsteiner's exhibition of his work in Right on the Rim'
Sat, 20 March, 7 pm - screening of a documentary film work in progress by Steve Kwena Mokwena about two Johannesburg poets
In cooperation with BIOSCOPE and the TriContinental Festival, Right on the Rim is proud to present Steve Kwena Mokwena's "Driving with Fanon" movie on Mon, 22 March at 8 pm in the Bioscope Cinema in the Main Street Life building on Fox Street, one Block from Arts on Main.
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| NIROX Projects : 1 - 12 March |
| Through Positive Eyes - Workshop |
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Through Positive Eyes - a workshop directed by London based photographer, Gideon Mende
Through Positive Eyes is an attempt to address key themes of the AIDS epidemic: widespread stigma, extreme social inequality, and limited access to lifesaving medication. Around the world-in half a dozen countries on five continents-HIV-positive people open their lives and share their stories. In Johannesburg, Through Positive Eyes is partnering with Pholo Communications Services and the Nirox Projects Space at Arts on Main, to put together photography workshops with a select group of HIV-positive South Africans.
These individuals take part in an intensive ten-day workshop directed by Gideon Mendel and photo educator Crispin Hughes. Armed with new skills and techniques-as well as small, high-resolution digital cameras-participants are set loose to document their lives in any way they choose. At the same time, Mendel travels to the home or workplace of each participant to make a portrait in which the participants engage directly with the camera, providing a visual counterpoint to their self-authored images. Interviews are also recorded, in which participants share life stories, experiences, and challenges they have faced living with HIV/AIDS. In the end, Through Positive Eyes produces a powerful collection of images and text, to be used as local and international art and advocacy materials.
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| Goethe on Main : 03 & 04 March, 18:30 |
| FNB Dance Umbrella 2010: Moses |
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'Moses' is a dance theatre choreopoem exploring the politics of identity post former President Thabo Mbeki's 'I-am-an-African' era. The work follows a socio-political dream that unfolds into an experience led by two youngsters whose journey leads them to challenges that rob them of their youth. Silence is a major part of the journey while submission is a subconscious reaction mode. Perhaps a reflection of those who suffer the loss of their innocence in the battles of pride, or those whose choices are informed and enforced by the pathways of their leadership as affirmation of their desired identity.
Duration; 70 minutes
Choreography; Musa Hlatshwayo / Production Designer; Wesley Maherry / Performers; Ngcebo Nzama, Sikelela Magxala, Phumzile Masina, Busi Deyi & Musa Hlatshwayo /
Music; Miriam Makeba, Jürgen Bräuninger, Brice Wassy, Amampondo, Fausto Romitelli
Poetry; Lebo Mashile, Ingrid Jonker & former President Thabo Mbeki / Production; Mhayise Productions
The project is being realised as part of the continued Goethe-Institut´s partnership with the FNB Dance Umbrella
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| Goethe on Main : 11 March- 3 April, 18:30 |
| Celebrating Simplicity by Shonisani Maphangwa and Puleng Plessie |
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The Exhibition aims at celebrating the Soweto youth of the past, which has become today's older generation. It also aims at celebrating life in general. The exhibition revolves around time, age, and change; looking at black & white photographs, material things which values have changed, and a section called the playground with different kinds of games that were played during apartheid.
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| NIROX Projects : 11 March - 21 March. Opening 11 Feb, 19:00 |
| Africalls |
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On 11 March the Embassy of Spain and Casa Africa (Canary Islands, Spain) open an audiovisual exhibition entitled Africalls?, by artists from Africa, exploring their interest in the urban context. It will be opened by the Ambassador with cocktails and music by Gen. Sbusiso.
Africalls? shows the artists' interests and the urban context from which they create their works. AFRICALLS? approaches these artists work from an unusual perspective, direct and intimate, exploring the key aspects of their personalities and creative processes beyond the art objects they make.
Africalls? also navigates in those artistic sceneries that are permanently under construction, and that take place today in Dakar, Douala, Cape Town (Lolo Veleko), Rabat, Luanda, Nairobi and Maputo.
Africalls? is an audiovisual project with destination to the art of an urban Africa, as cosmopolitan and unknown, as contemporary and global."
benji liebmann
benji.liebmann@gmail.com
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| Seippel Gallery : 18 March, 18:00-20:00 |
Play and Display
Molemo Moiloa, Smilo Hlatshwayo & Smoky Radebe-Video Installation |
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Play and Display is a collaborative work between an honours student from Wits (Molemo Moiloa) and two artists formally from FUNDA College (Smilo Hlatshwayo and Sipho 'Smokey' Radebe). The collaboration serves as the basis of the artwork, as continual workshops and interactions that in themselves serve as a relational aesthetic, exchanging thoughts and values and finding similar points of interest through dialogue. Strongly based in Bakhtin's Dialogism, our continual communication does not merely answer, correct, silence, or extend a previous interaction, but informs and is continually informed by the previous interaction, whether this is an exchange and/or work. Dialogic literature is in communication with multiple works.
For more info please go to http://playanddisplay-seippelgallery.blogspot.com/
Continuing Exhibitions - see below
Bob Gosani: A Retrospective - Bailey Seippel Gallery
Bili Bidjocka - Goodman Project Space
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| February 2010 |
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| Goethe on Main : 10 - 28 February. Opening 10 February, 6:30pm |
| Merry Christmas Minister! |
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"Merry Christmas Minister!” follows the 2004 visit of the Minister of Home Affairs to the Lindela Repatriation Centre to tell foreign nationals incarcerated there, that they would not be getting a free ride home for Christmas.... Amid jeers from the crowd the Minister also indicated that the young men responsible for an uprising in Lindela were 'not fit to be treated like human beings'! As the Minister walked out one of the people shouted 'Merry Christmas Minister!' In 2008 as the country erupted in brutal attacks on foreign nationals the Minister of Home Affairs was at Lindela begging foreign nationals camped there to 'take a free ride home' - as government mumbled and fumbled over what to do about the crisis!
This multi-media installation by Bobby Rodwell looks at the issue of contested space in the inner city and captures some of the responses from South Africans and foreign nationals around issues of identity, language, culture and ownership - and questions the extent to which government is complicit in inciting negative sentiments towards African foreign nationals.
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| Nirox Projects : 11 February - 28 February. Opening 11 February, 6pm - 8pm |
| Strijdom van der Merwe: Sculpting the Land |
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The exhibition at Arts on Main consists of a body of work that was created on the island Sylt on the north coast of Germany. It was made possible by Nirox Foundation and the Sylt-Quelle arts foundation and its director, Indra Wussow.
During the residency the artist used the time to explore the landscape, and by doing that sculpting into the landscape, often with the materials provided by the chosen site. These sculptural forms take shape in relation to the landscape in a process of working with the natural world, using sand, water, wood, rocks etc. Van der Merwe would shape these elements into geometrical forms that participate with their environment, continually changing until their final probable destruction.
The exhibition at Arts on Main will be a photo documentation of the land art works done during the artist’s stay as well as an installation inside the gallery space.
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| Bailey Seippel Gallery : 11 February - 13 March. Opening 11 February, 6pm - 8pm |
| Bob Gosani: A Retrospective |
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Bob Gosani was born in 1934 in Johannesburg.
In 1952, he began his career in photojournalism as a darkroom assistant for Jürgen Schadeberg at Drum Magazine where he continued to work throughout his career. His work became widely recognised within South Africa.
Some of his pictures have become iconic images of the 1950’s in South Africa. Some of his most famous sequence of pictures include Nelson Mandela sparring with his boxing club's star boxer of the time, Jerry Moloi, and the humiliating and degrading Tauza dance that naked prisoners were forced to perform in the courtyard of the notorious Johannesburg prison, The Fort, in Hillbrow. As a result of many of his pictures being published in Drum, he was able to contribute significantly to raising awareness as well as fighting the injustices of the Apartheid government.
In 1957 he was in a serious car accident and lost a lung, after which he took on freelance photographic work.
He died in August 1972.
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Canteen : 12 February - 14 February, 6:30 for 7pm
Cost: R250pp, includes film, excludes beverages |
| Valentines Day: I Love JHB: 3 Nights, 3 Films |
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Bookings are essential!
An exclusive dinner at Canteen and a handpicked selection of films for the occasion, all enjoyed in an intimate outdoor setting.
For further information contact Matthew: 011 334 5947 or
canteen.245@iafrica.com
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Feb 4 - 7, 2010
Four days of openings, artist talks, film screenings, music and more! |
| The Arts on Main Non-Festival |
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Arts on Main launches its first major event of the year with a full timetable:
Thurs 4th Feb
4pm - 8pm Colleen Alborough: Open Studio
6pm - 8pm Corporate Art Exhibition Talks
8pm The Bioscope presents What The Bleep Do We Know
9:30pm Legends of Culture: Music
Fri 5th Feb
12pm - 4pm Colleen Alborough: Open Studio
6pm - 8pm Corporate Art Exhibition Talks
8pm The Bioscope presents Encounters at the End of the World
Sat 6th Feb
10am Opening: Bili Bidjocka at Goodman Project Space
10am - 4pm Pierre Crocquet & Colleen Alborough: Open Studios
5pm Legends of Culture Artist Talk
6pm - 8pm Corporate Art Exhibition Talks
8pm The Bioscope presents We Are the Strange
Sun 7th Feb
10am - 2pm Pierre Crocquet & Colleen Alborough: Open Studios
11am - 2pm Legends of Culture: Tales My Mother Never Told
12pm Opening: Dialogue - Wooden Sculptures at Seippel Gallery
Plus:
The Black Coffee team are about to depart for New York. This weekend you'll be able to get a sneak peak into their show that the rest of the fashion world will only be seeing at NY Fashion Week on 13 February 2010. The calico mock-ups of their collection will be beautifully exhibited while Love Jozi will introduce their "TShirtsByMass" sale - where previous ranges and older stock gets sold by the kilo. You could pick up a tee from last year's range from as little as R140, or a factory reject from as low as R40.
Bailey Seippel Gallery will be presenting a short Drum cover's poster exhibition on these dates only.
Arts on Main Architect Enrico Daffonchio will features images of Jonathan Liebmann's latest development Main Street Life.
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| Goodman Project Space : 6 February - 6 March. Opening: 6 February, 10am |
| Bili Bidjocka: Fiction #1: Autobiography without form of Bernardo Soares |
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Paris-based, Cameroon-born Bili Bidjocka's experiences of this city and its people has heightened his awareness of the extremes of beauty and vulnerabilty, qualities that he has foregrounded in the conception and production of FICTION #1. The first of a series of exhibitions to take place globally, it is conceived as an onirique wandering through the life of Bernardo Soares, both a character and one of the heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese author of The Book of Disquiet who, coincidentally, grew up in Durban at the turn of the twentieth century.
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| Right on the Rim Project Saloon
30 January - 25 February 2010 |
| Legends of Culture |
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Presenting:
Steve Kwena Mukwena, paintings in acryl: A Found Legacy, 2004 - 2009
Ryan Areson, linocuts: Too scared to live, too scared to die, 2005
Red White (Australia) and Cynthia Schwertsik (Austria), photos of a windy art intervention: Imitating the Monumental, 2008
Special Events on February 4 - 7:
Thursday February 4, 9 pm: Monday Blues waltzing in the Atrium of Arts on Main; Up-coming South African musicians and poets exchange their works and a call for art posters under the theme "Legends of Culture: Viennese Ball" is presented
Saturday February 6, 5 pm: Artist talk by Steve Kwena Mukwena and Ryan Areson about their work as well as the work of Red White and Cynthia Schwertsik in Right on the Rim.
Sunday February 7, 11 am - 2 pm: Under the title “Tales my mother never told” saloon writers Cindy Sampson and Prophet JD write for you your reports on the legends of your life. We would like to invite you to participate in this writing project by allowing one of the two writers to interview you for about 15 minutes - or more, if you have got time - in Right on the Rim Project Saloon.
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| January 2010 |
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| Goethe on Main : 14 January - 6 February |
| Lerato Shadi - Fragile, Selogilwe and Se sa Feleng |
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Young performance artist Lerato Shadi's show is composed of three works: the documentation of performances 'Fragile' and 'Selogilwe', and the opening night performance of 'Se sa Feleng', along with its remaining sculptural presence.
As the artist explains, 'The video work 'Fragile' and 'Selogilwe' documents performances, and the residual sculptural installation 'Se sa Feleng', explores themes around self-reflection, spirituality, and unseen life processes. The performances look at life as an act of creation, considers that every moment leaves behind a memory, a traces, something tangible or ethereal that refers to it, or marks its passage.'
The element of time and physical endurance is of particular significance to Shadi - all works take place over long periods of time, and seem to condense lifelong processes into unspoken parables, with ritual activities that push her beyond her own levels of physical comfort.
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| Right on the Rim |
| White Washing & Book Reading |
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January 16 , 11am - 2pm: White Washing: Action art in monochrom white by Cynthia Schwertsik.
A service for you - a tub with white paint - the audience is invited to bring something along for white washing.
An everyday thing will be transformed into an artwork in front of the beholder.
January 23, 2pm: Jann Turner- the famous South African writer and movie director - reading from her books 'Southern Cross' and 'Heartland' followed by a discussion with the audience on the texts, on love, and on writing about love.
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Studio 23: 23 January - 13 February
Opening 23 January, 12pm. |
| Exhibition presented by Corporate Art |
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Corporate Art is pleased to present an exhibition featuring:
Fatima Fernandes: Digital photo-montages reflecting issues of climate change, exhaustion of natural resources, and social conflict.
Rodney Grosskopff: 'The Price of Freedom'
Plus work from Graeme Williams and Diana Hyslop
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| Arts on Main Rooftop Bar: 22 January, 8:45pm, Free admission. |
| The Bioscope Summer Series |
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The Bioscope Summer Series, a celebration of summer, cinema and the city.
The film screened on Jan 22nd will be 'Don't F**k with me I have 51 Brothers and Sisters' directed by Dumisani Pakahati.
The director's father was, for most of his life, a talent scout for a soccer team. Throughout South Africa he was known as a minor celebrity. But at his funeral his son discovered another important piece of information - his father had enjoyed the company of 11 wives, with a total 52 children.
Phakhati's documentary is a cleverly juggled mixture of comedy and seriousness and is shot as a loose home-movie style as he travels around the country, visiting his siblings. He captures numerous unusual meetings in which brothers and sisters shyly examine each other at first, but then mostly, happily embrace. They talk of happy times, but also about bitter poverty and sorrow. Gradually, the viewer gets an idea of this extensive family, and in the process, of the complexity of South Africa.
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| David Krut Bookstore : 26 January, 6 for 6:30pm |
| William Kentridge: Nose |
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David Krut Bookstore will launch William Kentridge's 'Nose' series of etchings along with a newly published book on the series.
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