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Scape: Video component for COP17 (as part of the SABC Art Collection)

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 8, 2011|

Still from 'Terms of endearment' (2007) by Johan Thom

SABC Art Collection

VIDEO PROGRAMME WITH PUBLIC VIEWING SITES AROUND THE CITY

A looped programme of video artworks by Berni Searle, Vaughn Sadie, Nandipha Mntambo, Tracey Rose, William Kentridge, Stephen Hobbs, Marcus Neustetter, Jeremy Wafer, Stefanus Rademeyer, Johan Thom and James Webb will be screened in the convention centre in Durban from 5pm until late daily.

The same video programme will be screened at the The Green Hub, Blue Lagoon, uMgeni River Mouth, Durban from 27 November to 11 December daily.

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Ontsnapping van menssyn

Posted in News, tagged , , on October 10, 2011|

In Julie 1975 poog die Nederlandse kunstenaar Bas Jan Ader om die Atlantiese Oseaan van Amerika alleen te kruis.

Ader vaar die water in met ’n seilboot wat 12,5 vt (3,86 m) lank is – die kleinste boot waarmee die tog ooit aangedurf is.

Vir Ader vorm hierdie amper bomenslike taak deel van ’n kunswerk met die semi-magiese titel In Search of the Miraculous.

Ses maande later word die boot op die kus van Ierland gevind. Die houtstruktuur dobber halfgesink soos ’n skelet in die stil water. Van Ader is daar geen teken nie.

Daar is natuurlik altyd hoop. Miskien, soos Koos Kombuis sou sê, is “Bas Jan nie dood nie; hy’s net uitge-pass ”.

Nou en dan is daar opnuut bewerings dat Ader êrens in die wêreld ’n anonieme bestaan voer.

Myns insiens is spanning die groter tema in Ader se oeuvre. Kunskenners beweer sy werk ondersoek die idee van gravitasie.

Maar wat is gravitasie anders as ’n soort spanning tussen vorms? In Broken Fall (Organic), 1971, hang Ader met sy arms aan die tak van ’n boom totdat hy uiteindelik noodgedwonge laat gaan en in ’n watergrag plons.
Nou is hy hier; nou is hy weg.

So dan ook met die idee van ontsnapping.

Hoe kan ’n mens die bekende beperkings van menswees ontsnap? Of hoe sal ’n kunstenaar dan die bitsige onbenullighede van die kunswêreld kan fnuik en ontduik? In hierdie droom is ons mos almal iemand anders, met ’n ander, meer genoegsame lewe. (“As ek tog net kon reïnkarneer as ’n miljardêr!”)

Natuurlik is die romanse sterk hier. Ader as Vincent van Gogh? Nog een wat drome kon droom in kleure wat die res van ons nooit eens van geweet het nie.

Dinge is nooit so maklik nie. Telkens is die verhouding tussen drome en die realiteit; kuns en die samelewing meer kompleks as dit. Soos ’n seil wat amper dom-astrant bly uitsteek bo die water ten spyte daarvan dat die boot lankal gesink het.

Snaaks hoe die dinge uitwerk. Vir my is Ader nou meer aanwesig as wat hy was voordat hy verdwyn het, op soek na ’n wonderwerk.


’n Snit uit Bas Jan Ader se 16?mm-rolprent ­Broken Fall (Organic), 1971, 1 minuut 44sek.

This article originally appeared in Die Beeld

Johan Thom (2011)

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The Underground, The Surface and The Edges‏ @ Michealis Gallery, UCT, Cape Town

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 8, 2011|

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MAP ZAR @ University of Johannesburg Art Gallery

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 26, 2011|

An exhibition entitled Map – South Africa with works from a broad spectrum of artists and genres will be hosted by the UJ Art Gallery from 11 May to 15 June 2011. In addition to showing new work by 39 artists who have participated in Map, the exhibition documents the diverse spaces utilised for the Map projects all over South Africa.

These spaces include restaurants, hotels, homes and Map’s own Karoo residency. The show also records Map participation in the 2007 Innibos arts festival and an architecture conference: African Perspectives 2009: ‘The African City Centre (re)sourced’, hosted by the University of Pretoria, as well as publications relating to these projects.

The founders of the project, patron of the arts, Harrie Siertsema and Abrie Fourie, well known artist and curator, brought a fresh and innovative approach to the domain of visual arts through this ongoing project and through their unwavering trust in and support of South African artists.

The multifaceted Modern Art Project (Map) originated in 2005 out of the impulse to combine the works of established and emerging artists and to show such works in unexpected spaces outside the traditional gallery context.

Map is emblematic of a new ‘empathetic economy’ in which the artwork is taken from the white cube gallery for more democratic dispersement, and brought back to the white cube for documentation and integration. Map also points to the destruction of the division between high and low culture.

The Map endeavours are documented in an exceptional series of “black books” available for public perusal. This informative resource is also a collector’s item as a limited edition “black box” set.

Enquiries:  Annali Cabano-Dempsey +2711 559 2099

Web:

http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/artsacademy/Gallery/Exhibitions/Pages/CurrentExhibition.aspx

http://www.mapzar.org

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OPENING BORDERS / OPENING OBJECTS

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…Opening Borders/Opening Objects facilitates a break with the standardized form of engagement with the artist, conceived of and valued primarily as producers and typically represented by their artistic output. Through their relationship with objects circulating in different, yet connected, cultural networks and markets, the exhibition invokes and complicates perceived binaries such as producer/consumer, high/low, real/imagined and local/global, as well of notions of truth, authenticity, and value.

http://uwo.ca/visarts/research/grad2011/Online%20Exhibition_html/opening%20borders%20opening%20objects.html

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POLYply > 9 ANIMAL ANIMAL, London 14 April 2011

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , on March 28, 2011|

POLYply > 9  ANIMAL ANIMAL 14 April

Maria Fusco
Carol Watts
Anna Lawrence
Johan Thom
Peter Cusack
Thursday 14th April, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG

http://www.polyply.wordpress.com

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Buddha Enlightened – 2 Be

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 19, 2011|

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VABILO video predavanje JOHAN THOM (JUŽNA AFRIKA)

Posted in News, tagged , on November 27, 2010|

Johan Thom: S TEBOJ SEM

Video predavanje

Pedagoška fakulteta Maribor – risarski atelje 0.60,

Torek, 30. 11. 2010, 10:30

Johan Thom (1976) je južnoafriški umetnik, ki trenutno živi in ustvarja v Londonu. Znan je po svojih performansih, video delih, skulpturah in tekstih. Večina del je ustvaril v javnih mestnih okoljih, parkih, galerijah, pri tem pa izhajal iz vsakdanjega življenja v Južni Afriki. Trenutno raziskuje pomen materialnega v umetnosti.

»Z ozirom na materialno umetniškega dela ne moremo razumeti le kot kulturne abstrakcije ali reprezentacije, pač pa umetniško delo predstavlja performativni angažma, ki proizvaja določene pomene s prepletanjem čutov, telesnosti in razuma.«

(Johan Thom)

V predavanju bo Johan Thom razmišljal o svoji fascinaciji in uporabi zlata v seriji svojih del, v katero spada tudi video instalacija Challenging Mud (After Kazuo Shiraga), ki je na ogled v Galeriji Media Nox.

JOHAN THOM: KLJUBOVATI BLATU

Video instalacija

Galerija Media Nox

premiera 29. 11. ob 18:00, ponovitve 30. 11. in 1. 12. med 12:00 in 18:00

»Južna Afrika je moja zibelka in moj grob – kulturno, politično in umetniško. Njena rdeča prst je v mojih žilah in zgoščuje mojo kri. Ko kljubujem blatu, kljubujem svojemu lastnemu bistvu.« (Johan Thom)

23. marca 2008 je južnoafriški umetnik Johan Thom prekril svoje celotno telo z medom in zlatimi lističi za zasebni performans, v katerem so ga njegova žena in skupina najbližjih živega pokopali. V umetniškem delu, ki je nastalo, je gledalec priča, kako nevidna roka počasi prekriva zlat lik ležeč v fetusni drži na dnu groba. Delo je skorajda hipnotično, ponavljajoč zvok in gib lopate in rdeče zemlje ustvarjata meditativno vzdušje, počasna transformacija slike to še dodatno poudarja.

Kombinacija zlatega lika, zemlje in fetusne drže služi kot osnova za več interpretacijskih drž, vse navidez arhaične ali mitične v svojem bistvu: spominja nas na močvirske like severne Anglije, pa tudi inkovske in egipčanske pogrebne običaje, simboliko zlata v svetovnih nazorih ljudstva Ašanti (Afrika), uporabo zlatih lističev v renesančnem slikarstvu in azijski religiozni ikonografiji ter, bližje umetnikovemu domu, odkritju zlata v Johannesburgu, Južni Afriki.

Delo je hommage performansu Challenging Mud (1956) Kazua Shirage (1924-2008) iz umetniške skupine Guitai.

Avtor: Johan Thom, www.johanthom.com

Kinematografija: Garreth Fradgley

Asistenti: Guy du Toit, Sarel Jansen van Rensburg, Mika le Roux, Shane de Lange, Nicholas du Toit

Petra Kolmančič, koordinatorka in organizatorka kulturnih programov

Mladinski kulturni center Maribor

Ljubljanska ulica 4, Maribor

www.mkc.si www.kulturniinkubator.si

02 300 29 94

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 PRIBLIŽUJE SE PERFORMA 2010 – 15. FESTIVAL SODOBNIH PERFORMATIVNIH PRAKS

Posted in News, tagged , on November 14, 2010|

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Mednarodni festival računalniških umetnosti (MFRU)

MFRU16-logoMFRU (v organizaciji MKC Maribor) ima v Sloveniji bogato tradicijo, saj velja za eno od osrednjih institucij računalniške umetnosti, ki s svojo stalno dejavnostjo skrbi za njeno prepoznavnost in razvoj. Ob ustanovitvi leta 1994 je bil eden prvih v tem delu sveta ter prvi in edini v Sloveniji. Od svojih začetkov je v Sloveniji in širši regiji opravil pionirsko delo pri predstavljanju teorije in prakse računalniške umetnosti ter novih medijev, s čimer pomembno prispeva k njihovi promociji in uveljavitvi, hkrati pa vzpostavlja temeljno kreativno jedro – v smislu produkcije novih intermedijskih del – v tem prostoru. MFRU tako zapolnjuje pomembno kulturno programsko nišo, s čimer Maribor uvršča med konkurenčna evropska festivalska mesta.

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Sexuate Subjects: POLITICS, POETICS AND ETHICS

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Sexuate Subjects
POLITICS, POETICS AND ETHICS
UCL, London / Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th / December 2010

This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to generate new theories and practices of subjectivity – ‘sexuate subjects’ – through contemporary poetic and political research in the visual arts, humanities and social sciences. It explores how these positive ethical subjectivities for women and men are constructed through spatial, material and textual feminist poetics and politics. Over three days, it will examine how sexuate subjects (people/disciplines) aid interdisciplinary responses to contemporary global crises of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing. Nine panels and invited keynote speakers examine the following themes: environmental and social crises;  sustainable ecologies; poetic communities, pedagogies, voices and bodies; the politics of bio-medicine, body-rights, family and well-being.

Principal Keynote:

Luce Irigaray, Doctor in Philosophy and Director of Research in Philosophy, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientific, Paris

 

Keynotes: Jananne Al-Ani (University of the Arts) Dr Caroline Bergvall (University of Southampton) Dr Carol Brown (University of Auckland) Dr Karen Burns (Monash University) Professor Lorraine Code (Toronto University) Professor Elizabeth Grosz (Rutgers University): video-conference presentation Professor Dorita Hannah (Massey University, Wellington) Dr Doina Petrescu (Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée and University of Sheffield)

Invited: Frederica Giardini (University Roma-Tre, Rome) FATALE (KTH, Stockholm) Dr Gillian Howie (Liverpool University) Profesor Heinz Kimmerle (University of Rotterdam) Professor Mary Rawlinson (Stony Brook University, SUNY) Dr Marita Ryan (University of Limerick) Dr Margrit Shildrick (Queen’s University, Belfast) Professor Gail Schwab (Hofstra University, Long Island NY) Professor Judith Still (The University of Nottingham) Taking Place: Feminist Spatial Practice collective Gianni Vacchelli (Universita degli Studi di Bergamo)

Please go to the Conference website for registration and further details: www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/sexuate-subjects

Funders: the Bartlett School of Architecture Research Fund; UCL’s Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interactions; Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, History of Art Department, UCL; Department of French UCL; Slade School of Fine Art, UCL; Hofstra University; Stony Brook University and FATALE, KTH, Stockholm

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PS: I am presenting a performance as part of this session on Saturday 4 December:

9.30-16.00 Understanding Difference: why poetry matters
Panel, performances and exhibition

Convenors: Professor Timothy Mathews (UCL), Dr Sharon Morris (UCL)
Contributors: Helen Benigson, Taru Elfving, Geraldine Finn, Jane Gilbert, Kristen Kreider & James O’Leary, Miriam Leonard, Tim Mathews, Sharon Morris, Caroline Phillips, Simone Roberts, Nastja Ronkko, Kai Tai, Johan Thom

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