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PROJECT 35 screening and discussion
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![]() Dan Halter Untitled (Zimbabwean Queen of Rave) 2005, 3'33"
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Dada South? Exploring Dada legacies in South African art 1960 to the present Curated by Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith with Lerato Bereng
Iziko South African National Gallery
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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


