Thursday November 11, 18h30

THIS EVENT IS STRICTLY RSVP

Cash bar, safe parking in William St (behind the building)

Please email serialworks to confirm your attendance

The indulgence and exhaustion of the meaningless voice is an MFA project completed at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts in collaboration with Douglas Gimberg, Christian Nerf, Anja de Klerk, Josh Ginsburg, Barend de Wet and Ryan van Huyssteen amongst others.

It is a loosely collated assemblage of utterances accumulated through a critically reflexive, studio-based and collaboratively oriented research practice. Borrowing and appropriating orphan thoughts from critical theory to philosophy to psychoanalysis and contemporary art theory, the resulting collection was reduplicated as an index and a chronology and is now housed in its entirety in a wooden box.

Having begun with the aim of developing a method or mode of practice that could sustain itself beyond the parameters of a brief, whether self or otherwise produced, the project is primarily interpretable as a chronicle of this process. Indulgent, exhausting, and often embarrassing, it is nevertheless a document of what has been done. In spite of its various weaknesses the redeeming feature of the project is that it remains properly experimental, the logic of which values failure and success on an equal level and takes what it can from each. 

As a mobile and self-sustaining exhibition space, the box exists currently as a launch pad for an additional discussion of its motives and strategies – some of which have emerged as practical propositions. 

Sunday November 14, 16h30 for 18h00

inasmuch (Niklas Zimmer, Brendon Bussy and Garth Erasmus)

This is a mini-concert experiment in sound, art and audience.

Mbira attacks, drums counter and mandolin returns provide an unexpected and wholly spontaneous encounter between three seasoned improvisors using drums, saxophone, mandolin, African instruments and surprise.

Not to be missed!

R30 at the door

Cash bar, safe parking in William St (behind the building)

Brendon Bussy (mandolin and electronics) is a composer, electro acoustic performer and artist. He promotes unconventional approaches to sound making through the New Old Old New project. In 2003, he released Diesel Geiger (Open Records). www.brendonbussy.co.za  

Niklas Zimmer (drums) is a German-South African artist and musician working in photography, sound and performance. As a progressive percussionist, he has collaborated with James Webb and Brydon Bolton. He is founder of the Upland07 music label. www.upland07.com