Visual Activism Workshop for Youth @ Apartheid Museum

emerging arts activist programme 

The fundamental aim of this workshop is to expose, explore and instil a basic socio-political grounding (within a post-colonial theory framework) in young arts activist, towards a broader reconciliation and transformational end. This long term intervention will launch during National Youth month, which commemorates the June 16, 1976 uprising of youths against Bantu Legislation laws. 


The workshop will run during the June vacation and is open to youth aged 15 to 20 who aspire to transform our nation through visual art. Artworks produced by participants will be exhibited at the Apartheid Museum for approximately 2 weeks (exhibition opening 27 June).

See the official advert below:

FOR BOOKINGS please contact Wayde Davy at 011 309 4700 
or email at wayded@apartheidmuseum.org

Tom Waits For No Man - Walkabout at UJ Art Gallery

Tom Waits For No Man exhibition by eNCA (screenshot)

Gordon Froud in eNewsChannel

Please join us for a walkabout!

Place: University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Crn Kingsway and University Rd, Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Lecture and Walkabout:
Wednesday 22 May @ 10:30 am

Tom Waits - For no Man exhibition 2013

"Tom Waits has been a major inspiration for artists, musicians, poets, writers and thinkers for more than 50 years. He is considered as one of the Godfathers of grunge and poetic rock and is held in high esteem by musicians, singers and artists. I see Waits as a master of contemporary narrative who is able to weave emotion and intrigue into his stories of urban grit and rural abandonment...Waits is a master wordsmith whose ability to create disturbing narratives sets him apart from other songwriters. From his achingly beautiful love songs to his social and politically charged tales, Waits creates powerful lyrics interlaced with unusual musical arrangements and with his penchant for unusual musical instruments (or objects used as instruments), the sound is a memorable one that hooks most listeners from the very first chord...

Gordon Froud (curator), 2012

The Tom Waits For No Man travelling group exhibition, curated by Gordon Froud, was recently launched (30 March) at the KKNK in the Klein Karoo. It comprises approximately 100 LP sized (30cm), multi media works. http://www.kknk.co.za/program.phppage=visuele_kuns&item=visuele_kuns_2013

The show will be moving to Grande Provence Wine Estate for the Literary Festival in May, The University of Johannesburg Art Center in July and hopefully Oliewenhuis Gallery, Bloemfontein in August. Other venues may be explored in Natal and the Cape. Please watch this space for opening dates of this not to be missed show!

Below, find the artist statement and an image of my contribution. 

Vinyls in the flat

Formed vinyls folded, on LP players.

'the wrong lips'
Vinyl flooring, red paper and record player
400 x 150

Based on song titled ‘It’s all right with me’ the work is a playful exploration of psycho sexual behaviour in pure Tom Waits fashion. More specifically, it focusses on erotic exchanges between strangers; such as flirtation and other ephemeral encounters. The work is mounted on a record player, visually enticing viewers through the slow hypnotic rotation of two voluptuous ‘lips’ produced from folded vinyl flooring.

Its all right with me - Tom Waits 

Site-Specific installation what not...

Image by Ryan, Jimmy and Nanka 

The above work titled 'This is my home now...', previously exhibited at the After Math show, was later re-installed at the 'traversed and recorded' exhibition in November 2012. In a walk-about of the show I described this work as a site-specific installation. This phrase seems to be relatively novel to many viewers and required some further elaboration.  I recently came across a great theoretical analysis by Miwon Kwon (cited below) that introduces the topic.

According to Kwon (2004) the idea of site-specificity first emerged in the wake of minimalism in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Kwon (2004) in his One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, infers that site-specific work was and is antithetical to the claim "If you have to change a sculpture for a site there is something wrong with the sculpture". He claims that both interuptive or assimilative site-specific art surrenders to its context and in fact formally determined by it. Below find a snippet from the artist statement of This is my home now, one of my site specific works. 

This is my home now...

2012

Fold formed aluminium 

Farieda Nazier 

For over a century, the Johannesburg city’s buildings have undergone constant shifting effected by wave upon wave of its diverse residents. From families to businesses, homes to offices; the city has witnessed a broad demographic of settlers who varied in class, race and gender.

Image from:
http://www.artsithuba.co.za/exhibition/exhibition-2012 

The city of Johannesburg has evidenced years and years of radical transformation brought about through shaping and erosion by humans and the environment alike. These changes have manifested and accumulated as unique traces within a relatively formal urban landscape.

The sculptural installation titled ‘This is my home now...’ addresses this by illustrating a formally controlled landscape that maintains all evidence of often random or chaotic inscription, physical indications of the history long past i.e. marks, dents and fractures.



'This is my home now'... embodies the shape-shifting nature of the construct that it depicts. Its site-specificity allows for furthered visual associations with architectural structures and cityness by assimilating existing elements within the space; incorporating a section of perpendicular floor-meets-wall, its depth and height, as well as playing with lighting and shadow.

References consulted: 

Kwon, M. 2004. One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. MIT Press: Massachusetts

Other links:
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/dos/rid/enindex.htm

MTN New Contemporaries Award 2012

Herewith, my last exhibition invitation for 2012.

This exhibition will be showcasing a number collaborations, 

including previous and new video works produced 

by myself and Mocke J V Veuren. 

Do join us if you are in Cape Town.

Below find a link to one of  the press releases:

http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=50339

traversed and recorded walkabout: 1 December 2012

An opportunity to get into the artists' head's...

               Please join us for a glass of wine
and a walkabout with the artists at  the 2012 exhibition:
'traversed and recorded'
 and the inaugural show for the Ithuba Arts Gallery in Braamfontein. 

Address: 100 Juta Street, Braamfontein (corner Biccard) 

The gallery will be open from
10.30am and artists will start speaking from 2pm. 

They are: 

Andrew Sprawson 

Farieda Nazier

Mandy Johnston 

Jason Larkin 

Tshepo Mosopa 

Ravi Govender 

There will be time for questions and
it is a great opportunity to meet the next generation of creative practitioners in Johannesburg. 

Please see our website for images of our opening night and more details of each artist.

www.artsithuba.co.za

Invite by:

Lavendhri Arumugam 

Managing Director 

Ithuba Arts Fund

Traversed and Recorded - 'Performing the After Math'

See you this Saturday, 24 November 2012 

after 'First ever Pim Street Festival', 

at the newly unveiled Ithuba Arts Gallery.

The collaboration would like to thank the Ithuba Arts Fund, for making this production possible. 

traversed and recorded exhibition opening...22 November

Ithuba Arts Fund's newest finds...

Toeraweg  (English translation: Then it was gone)
Aluminium Sheet fold formed and hammer textured
Farieda Nazier and Mocke JV Veuren
2012

Join us tomorrow 22 November at 18.30, to celebrate the works of six emerging Joburg-based artists showcased at Ithuba Arts Fund brand new gallery on Juta Street. 

(Full address: 100 Juta Street, Braamfontein)

This unique group show will showcase my own and collaborative works (installations, film & performance), as well as works by Jason Larkin (photography), Mandy Johnston (sculpture), Ravi Govender (multi media), Andrew Sprawson (drawings) and Tshepo Mosopa (drawings). The exhibition is a collection of artist's responses to this year's theme traversed and recorded. 

Below, find a snippet of my own interpretation of traversed and recorded theme: 

"For over a century, the Johannesburg city’s buildings have undergone constant shifting effected by wave upon wave of its diverse residents. From families to businesses, homes to offices; the city has witnessed a broad demographic of settlers who varied in class, race and gender. Unlike suburban settlements that transform and expand across large areas of land due to an increasing population; townships and cities are radically changed by politics, corporates and residents, both formal and informal through demolition and reconstruction on the same area of land.   Subsequently, the city of Johannesburg has evidenced years and years of radical transformation brought about through shaping and erosion by humans and the environment alike. These changes have manifested and accumulated as unique traces within a relatively formal urban landscape..." 

                                                        Ithuba Arts Exhibition Catalogue 2012

I would like to thank my collaborators Mocke JV Veuren and Thami Hector Manekhla for their contributions to the artworks. Further the funders of the After Math production - National Arts Council, Ithuba Arts Fund, University of Johannesburg, Aluvault, Apartheid Museum, Blackbird Projects, NEC, Brian Golombick and Christa Van Zyl graphic design. 

Ithuba Arts Fund exhibition UPDATE...

                                     

The renovation of the new Ithuba Arts Gallery at 100 Juta Street is well on its way! 

Ithuba is getting ready for a not-to-missed event, 

showcasing the works of six emerging visual artists (myself included), based here in Jozie. 

Traversed and Recorded will be opening on 22 November @ 18h30 !!! 

See you there!

Image by Lavendhri Arumugam 

For more images and info see:

http://www.artsithuba.co.za/gallery

Ithuba Arts fund Official Invite !!!

After Math- Aftermath: Make yourself heard!!

A call for feedback and viewer responses

Viewers at the opening night: 16 August 2012

The After Math artists would hereby like to make a call for feedback, comments and constructive critique on the works exhibited at the After Math exhibition between 16 August and 16 September 2012, Apartheid Museum. Please tell us your response(s) or views on individual video or sculptural works, the performance or the installation as a whole.

Please click on the email address provided fnazier@uj.ac.za to submit your feedback.

Further,  please note that your email comments, feedback and critique may be used anonymously in the conveners’ research and writing. Your ideas are vital to the future interventions.

Ithuba Arts Fund...2012 Annual exhibition

Next up: Ithuba Arts Fund annual group show!!

'The Ithuba Arts Fund provides a platform for emerging Jo’burg-based creative practitioners." 

(website: http://www.artsithuba.co.za/) 

This year six diverse artists where selected and received funding from the IAF.

Thank you IAF for your support and sponsoring the making of my own and collaborative works, some exhibited at the recent After Math 2012 show. The theme for this year's IAF exhibition titled 'Traversed and Recorded': Exploring the shifting city, references geographical, social and political contexts. 

Congratulations to my co-artists who will be exhibiting at the IAF's annual show in November. 

Four of the artist selected by the Ithuba Arts Fund in 2012;
Mandy Johnston, Farieda Nazier, Jason Larkin and Tshepo Mosopa
look around the space @ 100 Juta Street for the first time.

Photograph by Lavendhri B Arumugam

Exhibition officially closed!!! But the project continues...

I would like to acknowledge and thank all the funders and sponsors who made the 

After Math Show a reality.

Thank you:

Funders

Ithuba Arts Fund http://www.artsithuba.co.za/

National Arts Council http://www.nac.org.za/

University of Johannesburg FADA Faculty Research Committee http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Faculties/fada/Pages/default.aspx

Sponsors

Aluvault http://www.aluvault.co.za/

Apartheid Museum http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/content/home

Blackbird Projects http://www.blackbirdprojects.co.za/

Metal Casting Technology Station

http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Faculties/engineering/MetalCastingTechnologyStation/Pages/default.aspx

NEC http://www.nec.com/en/global/office/south_africa.html

Peripheral Vision http://www.peripheralvision.co.za/contact.htm

Christa Van Zyl the graphic designer 

Also, a very special thanks to the collaborators Mocke J V Veuren and Thami Hector Manekehla, as well as my production assistant Argyris Papagiourgiou who have contributed in expertise, creative development, time, energy and passion for the cause!!

Do watch this space for updates on the next show:

http://www.artsithuba.co.za/artists/artists-2012/farieda-nazier

Good News Everyone!

Only one more sleep 

before the not-to-be-missed, 

After Math Performance!!!

See you on tomorrow, Sunday16 September 2012 
@ 14h30 for 15h00

Venue: 

The Round Room, Apartheid Museum, 

c/o Northern Parkway & Gold Reef Road

No entrance fee required

Refreshments will be served

Please RSVP on  fnazier@uj.ac.za

Thami Hector Manekehla, in S.P.A.C.E. 

 performed with Thabiso Pule, Susana Panadez Diaz,
Oscar Martin Correa and Fernando De Miguel.

After Math: The PERFORMANCE

Remember to RSVP for the After Math performance, 

this Sunday 16 September at 14:30 for 15:00. 

My email is fnazier@uj.ac.za 

No entry fee required and Refreshments will be served. 

The venue: The Round Room, Apartheid Museum, Northern Parkway & Gold Reef Road, Ormonde. 

Thami Hector Manekehla, in a recent production called S.P.A.C.E. 

The piece was performed with Thabiso Pule, Susana Panadez Diaz,
Oscar Martin Correa and Fernando De Miguel.