Kathryn Smith Born 1975, Durban, South Africa. Lives and works in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, South Africa Represented by Goodman Gallery About My practice operates at the interface between studio work, curatorial projects and scholarly research. My studio work is informed by forensic aesthetics and criminography, modernity and the uncanny, body doubles and secret histories, incorporating camera-based media, psychogeographic strategies, installation and performance. My scholarly and curatorial projects are focused on developing the histories and discourses of historical avant-garde and experimental/radical practices in South Africa in relation to contemporary practice, with particular focus on new media, dialogical/situated practices and performance. |  |
current
the lowercase
an ongoing project 2009 -
the lowercase
was initiated as a satellite project for 'A Proposal for Articulating
Works and
Places', the 3rd AiM Biennale in Marrakech (November 19, 2009 - January
10, 2010), curated by Abdellah Karroum. An earlier work that operates on
similar principles (Psychogeographies: The Washing Away of Wrongs, 2003) acted as a visual 'co-ordinate' in Marrakech.
In
response to a discussion with Karroum, 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", the
initial research and identification of resources began prior to the
opening of the biennale and the project will continue throughout 2010.
Selected works from the biennale, including Psychogeographies: The Washing Away of Wrongs (2003) are currently on view as part of Others: Marrakech Istanbul, Athens at Riso Museo d'Arte Contemporanea delle Sicilia in Palermo (July - November 2010)
Research and process material generated around the lowercase will be archived here.
Visit the biennale's site here
Read the Nafas article here
the lowercase | in process Trauma Diorama: The Quarry | 2009 Euphemism | 2004
Barend de Wet | SMAC Gallery, forthcoming One Million and Forty-Four years (and Sixty Three Days) | SMAC Gallery, 2007
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Dada South?: Dada Legacies in South African Art 1960 to the present (with Roger van Wyk), Iziko South African National Gallery | 2009-2010
Bad Form: Things and Stuff (with Christian Nerf and Francis Burger) for blank projects at the Joburg Art Fair | 2009
Curatorial correspondent for Revolutions – Forms that Turn | 2008 Biennale of Sydney
Curatorial correspondent for T1 - Torino Triennale Treimusei | 2005
MTN New Contemporaries | 2003
body: rest & motion and body II: sublimation, an exhibition in two parts | 2001, 2002
Two Icons: the atom, the body (with James Sey) | 2000
Histories of the Present | 1998
A selection of PDFs are available for download by clicking the Press link, otherwise this page is still under construction. Download my resume for a more detailed list of citations and reviews, or contact me for further information.
in brief
Established serialworks | July 2009
Board member, VANSA Western Cape | 2009 - 2010
Senior lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, University of Stellenbosch | since 2006
Ampersand Foundation Fellow | 2005
Standard Bank Young Artist Award | 2004
Founded City & Suburban Studios (with Christian Nerf) | 2002 - 2005
Founding member of The Premises project room | 2001-2002
Founding member of the Trinity Session | 2000
Sasol New Signatures award | 1999
MAFA (distinction), University of the Witwatersrand, 1999
BAFA (distinction), University of the Witwatersrand, 1997
