Archive for October, 2009
Britto New Media Festival – National Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16-27 October 2009
Posted in News, tagged Art, Britto Arts Trust, Cedric Maridet, Contemporary Art, Diana Wesser, Huma Mulji and Bani Abidi, Imran Hossain Piplu, Johan Thom, Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty, Krisna Murti, Leblanc Sloan, Mahbubur Rahman, Molla Sagor, New media festival, Raihan Ahmed Rafi, Runa Islam, SAVAC (www.savac.net), Surekha, Tayeba Begum Lipi, Yasmine Kabir, Yeung Ngor Wah Anthony on October 19, 2009|
Visitor: 1-day Residencies at the UCT Irma Stern Museum with Liza Grobler
Posted in News, tagged Abri de Swardt, Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton, Barend de Wet, Francisca Sanchéz, Irma Stern Museum, Jacques Coetzer, Johan Thom, Katherine Bull, LIza Grobler, Lynette Bester, Michael Taylor, Niklas Zimmer, Ruben Gutiérrez, Seth Harper, Sonya Rademeyer, Visitor: 1-day Residencies at the UCT Irma Stern Museum on October 17, 2009|
Study for 'Incantation', 2009, (100 word poem engraved on razorblades) by Johan Thom as part of 'Visitor: 1-day Residencies at the UCT Irma Stern Museum'. Photo by Liza Grobler
I am pleased be contributing to South African artist Liza Grobler’s one day residencies as part of her solo exhibition at the UCT Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town. Here is the blurb:
“During the past years, I have often collaborated with others, and although VISITOR is a solo exhibition, I am inviting guests to partake in the show. Various collaborations will take place on specific days, but the most extensive project is the residency programme contained in the heart of the exhibition space: 14 artists have the opportunity to occupy this space for 1 day each. This blog will document each intervention. Liza Grobler”
Other artists participating in the show include:
Wednesday 7 October – Francisca Sanchéz
Thursday 8 October – Lien Botha
Friday 9 October – Abri de Swardt
Saturday 10 October – Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton & Barend de Wet
Tuesday 13 October – Lynette Bester
Wednesday 14 October – Johan Thom
Thursday 15 October – Niklas Zimmer
Friday 16 October – Seth Harper
Saturday 17 October – Jacques Coetzer
Tuesday 20 October – Michael Taylor
Wednesday 21 October – Ruben Gutiérrez
Thursday 22 October – Sonya Rademeyer
Friday 23 October – Katherine Bull
Here is the project’s website: http://dayresidencies.blogspot.com/
And here is Liza Grobler’s personal website: http://www.lizagrobler.co.za/
Talk at ‘Fictions of Difference’ – a study day accompanying ‘A Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African Art’ at the Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
Posted in News, tagged Anna Douglas, Dineo Bopape, Djanogly Gallery, Gregory Woods, Johan Thom, Lakeside Art Centre, Life Less Ordinary exhibition, Marion Arnold, Marlene van Niekerk, Michael Raeburn, Mika Thom, PERFORMANCE AND DISPLAY IN SOUTH AFRICAN ART, Steven Cohen, Triomf on October 3, 2009|
Schedule for Fictions of Difference – 31st October 2009
10.00 – 10.30 Registration & opportunity to see the exhibition at NAE.
10.30 Introduction Anna Douglas, curator, Life Less Ordinary
10.45– 11.30 Mika Thom, Johannesburg curator and gallerist provides a personal introduction to the art scene in South Africa today.
11.30 – 12.15 Dineo Bopape, (Life Less Ordinary artist) presents a specially commissioned performance for New Art Exchange/Djanogly Art Gallery.
12.15 Coach to Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside, Nottingham University.
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch (not included), available at Lakeside Art Centre
1.30 – 2.15 Johan Thom, performance artist, South Africa, discusses performance art in South Africa (http://johanthom.com).
2.15– 3.00 ‘The Poetics of Berni Searle’, Marion Arnold, Loughborough University.
3.00 – 3.45 ‘Queer’ – a response to the performance work of Steven Cohen, Gregory Woods, Nottingham Trent University. (http://www.gregorywoods.co.uk)
4.00 – 5.00 Open visit to the Life Less Ordinary exhibition, with all the speakers.
6.30 – 9.15 One-night only, private screening of award-winning South African feature Triomf, by Michael Raeburn, introduced by producer Lyndon Plant, with Q&A, in the Djanogly Art Gallery. The ‘horrendously hilarious film’, after the post-colonial novel by Marlene van Niekerk, tells the story of a poor white Afrikaner family living in a Johannesburg suburb in run-up to the first democratic elections in 1994. “Triomf has a universal quality, poverty is dramatic. The context is a metaphor, it’s the end of one world and the beginning of another”.
http://triomfmovie.blogspot.com/
Tickets for Triomf may be reserved as part of the study day, or as separate entrance. Tickets are free but capacity is limited due to gallery screening.
Study Day is free, booking from Lakeside Art Centre, Box office & Info Line: 0115 846 7777
For more details regarding the exhibition please visit http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/Exhibitions/ViewEvent.html?e=1407&c=5&d=
johanthom.com 