current 


PROJECT 35 screening and discussion

Saturday, February 20
19h30 for 20h00 


Kathryn Smith, independent curator, and Senior Lecturer, University of Stellenbosch, and Susan Hapgood, Director of Exhibitions, iCI (Independent Curators International, New York) discuss Project 35, a new evolving exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators for ICI.


A selection from the first issue of the series will be presented, featuring work by artists Robert Cauble (selected by Raimundas Malasauskas), Guy Ben-Ner (selected by Mai Abu ElDahab), Kota Ezawa (selected by Constance Lewallen), Dan Halter (selected by Kathryn Smith), Tuan Andrew Nguyen & Phù Nam Thuc Ha (selected by Zoe Butt), Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (selected by Franklin Sirmans), Edwin Sánchez (selected by José Roca), Yukihiro Taguchi (selected by Mami Kataoka), and Zhou Xiaohu (selected by Lu Jie).


For Project 35, each curator has been invited to select one artist’s video that they think vital for contemporary art audiences across the globe. The result heralds the new decade with an eclectic compilation of works that reveal the global reach that video has achieved as a contemporary art medium today.


Project 35 is being launched this month at the Saint Joseph College Art Gallery (West Hartford, US), and will also be presented at the Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design (Philadelphia, US); Washington
Pavilion of Arts and Science (Sioux Falls, US); William Benton Museum of Art (Storrs, US); LAXART (Los Angeles, US); San Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam); Press to Exit Project Space (Skopje, Macedonia); and the NEXT Art Fair (Chicago, US), with many more locations to be announced. 

Presented in partnership with VANSA Western Cape

 


Dan Halter Untitled (Zimbabwean Queen of Rave) 2005, 3'33"

 

 

Dada South?

Exploring Dada legacies in South African art 1960 to the present

Curated by Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith with Lerato Bereng


December 12, 2009 - February 28, 2010

Iziko South African National Gallery

 

 

Dada South? presents a collision of artistic strategies and forms that reflects the impact of the Dada movement on South African art practice. The exhibition presents both original Dada artworks and works conceived and enacted in the spirit of Dada, which seek to question the conventions, values and function of art in a troubled society.
 
For the first time in South Africa, historical Dada works and publications by Marcel Duchamp, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Man Ray, Hans Richter and Sophie Täuber-Arp are assembled for exhibition alongside works and objects by South African artists including Jane Alexander, Walter Battiss, Willem Boshoff, Candice Breitz, Kendell Geers, Neil Goedhals, Wopko Jensma, Robin Rhode and Lucas Seage.

The juxtaposition offers two important opportunities: to reconsider the significance of non-western cultures in Dada practice; and to consider an alternative history of resistance in a culture of isolation and repression in South Africa - one that is strongly related to ‘resistance art’, but which deviates into forms that are less didactic, and more eclectic and experimental.
 
In bringing together these lesser-known histories, Dada South? encourages new vocabularies for South African art.

The exhibition is presented by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg and Prohelvetia Swiss Arts Council, with the additional support of BHP Billiton; Culturesfrance; educentric; the Embassy of France in South Africa; the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Stellenbosch; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen; Institut Française d’Afrique du Sud; Iziko South African National Gallery ; Jack Wellsted & Co., Mondriaan Foundation; National Arts Council of South Africa; serialworks; and generous private donors.

 

 


the lowercase

a project by Kathryn Smith for 'A Proposal for Articulating Works and Places', the 3rd AiM Biennale in Marrakech, curated by Abdellah Karroum

November 19, 2009 until January 10, 2010


the lowercase is presented in studio as a satellite biennale project space. An earlier work - Psychogeographies: The Washing Away of Wrongs (2003) - that operates on similar principles, is installed in the museum in Marrakech. the lowercase will develop over the course of the biennale, according to the availability of those close to the events, and in response to a discussion with Abdellah where he described his interests with 'Articulating Works and Places' as operating "between 'desire and fear', fascination by the imaginary of a place and its reality." He could not have described my interests more precisely.


Research and process material generated around the lowercase will be archived here.

Visit the biennale's site here

Read the Nafas article here