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About
Art: Business in Art Workshop.
From the 18th to
the 22nd of June, Jill Waterman (arts management lecturer
at Wits
University)
ran a business orientated workshop for a pre-selected group
of emerging artists at The Bag Factory as a part of the
About Art programme.
The artists, from
Soweto, Orange Farm and Hillbrow, were taught basic internet and email skills,
how to write a biography, create a business card, write
a funding proposal and draw up a budget.
After an intense week of workshopping,
the group attended a Mapp Seta
dance production at Museum Africa (featuring the aboriginal
group Descendents) as a case study of a production produced
during a learnership programme
to which some of the students may wish to apply.
Africa
Remix Artists Visit The Bag
On
the 24th of June Africa Remix, the exhibition curated by
Simon Njami, opened at Johannesburg Art Gallery.
The show features 137 art works by 85 artists from over
25 countries on the African continent and it’s
diaspora. The show was first exhibited in 2004 at the
Museum Kunst Palast,
in Dusseldorf
in Germany,
and was considered to be the largest exhibition of contemporary
African art ever seen in Europe.
The exhibition then toured to the Hayward Gallery in London,
the Centre Pompidou in Paris,
the Mori Art Museum
in Tokyo and the Moderna
Museet in Stockholm.
The
Johannesburg
opening is the first time this exhibition has been shown
on African soil.
As
part of the opening week’s celebrations a number of
the exhibiting artists who were in town and staff from the
Johannesburg Art Gallery
joined the Bag Factory artists for drinks, dinner and a
small exhibition of recent works by the Bag Factory artists.
The
Exhibition is on at the JAG until the 30th September and
a number of talks and linked events will take place during
this time for more information on these please visit the
Africa Remix Johannesburg site:
http://www.africaremixjoburg.com/
Jill
Trappler: Studio Conversations
Jill
Trappler, committee member at
The Bag’s sister organisation
in Cape Town Greatmore Studios, will be opening her exhibition,
Studio conversations, this Sunday at Orange Street Studio.
The studio exhibition will comprise of a variety of works
that Trappler has made over the
past 30 years. Read More about this event on Greatmore’s
website.
Johan
Thom: The Theory of Flight
Wednesday
18 July 2007 Bag Factory Artist, Johan Thom opened his solo
exhibition The Theory of Flight. The exhibition which included a video
installation and photographic prints,
was a documentation of a performance work that Thom originally
presented in Bangladesh
last year.
The show closed with a closing event: an evening of performance
(the products of a workshop conducted by Thom) entitled
RE/action.
More
information on Johan Thom:
http://www.youtube.com/thomjohan
http://www.art.co.za/johanthom
http://kaganof.com/kagablog/category/contributors/johan-thom/
RE/Action:
An Evening of Performance Art
In
conjunction with his solo exhibition at the Bag Factory,
Johan Thom ran a two weekend workshop on performance art
with 11 arts practitioners.
The workshop consisted of a brief introduction to
some seminal performance art works in the history of the
medium and a series of practical exercises which culminated
in an impromptu day of performance at Johannesburg Art
Gallery
where the participants each presented a spontaneous performative
interaction inspired by works on the Africa Remix show.
As
a final presentation and to close Thom’s exhibition,
The Theory of Flight the workshop participants proffered
an evening of new and original performance pieces entitled
RE/Action on the 8th August 2007.
The workshop participants were Shane De Lange, Candice
Hirson, Bronwyn Lace, Malvin
Mokhonya, Anthea Moys, Rob Peers,
Anthea Pokroy, Mishkaar Roberts, Debbie Rogers, Lerato Shadi and Rat Western.
Interactive
Video Weekend Workshops
Tegan
Bristow is once again running the interactive computer workshop
as a part of the About Art programme. This is the third time the course has
been run and has proved quite popular.
Should you be interested in taking part in this course
in future please contact Bronwyn Lace at bronwyn@bagfactoryart.org.za
or telephone on 011 834 9181.
About
Art: How to enhance your funding application
As
the applications for funding from the National Arts Council
will be due shortly the About Art programme
reran the How to Enhance your Funding Application workshop
with Jill Waterman. We
will be rerunning these funding workshops in conjunction
with the deadlines for various organisations. Please
visit our blog regularly to find
out when the next workshop and/or funding application is
due.
Past
Residency Artist: Petros Ghebrehiwot
Last
year, the Bag Factory hosted painter Petros Ghebrehiwot from Eritrea
on our International Residency programme.
Ghebrehiwot has gone on to exhibit in Durban, Cape town and
to take part in the residency programme
at Greatmore Studios in Cape
Town. In August, Ghebrehiwot
opened a solo exhibition entitled Gathered Spirits at AfroNova
Gallery in Johannesburg. The exhibition closes 22 August 2007.
Sunday
Times Heritage Project
Bag
Factory Artist, Kagiso Pat Mautloa,
has recently completed a sculptural work as part of the
Sunday Times Heritage Project. Mautloa’s
work is in memory of those who suffered and died in detention
at the John Voster Square
police head quarters in Johannesburg.
The site specific work is a huge rock on a concrete plinth,
bound by wire, symbolising resilience
as expressed by the Zulu word simakade
(forever standing), to be etched into the plinth in several
South African languages.
Other
Bag Factory Artists and associates who have been involved
with the Sunday Times Heritage Project include Stephen
Maqashela, Sam
Nhlengethwa and Madi Phala
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