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News Bytes
- New residents at the Bagfactory
- SAartsEmerging
- Very Real Time 2 Discussion Series
- AfricanColours invites your comment
- Jill Trappler At AVA
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Opportunities
- Sasol Wax Art Award
- Department of Science and Technology Competition
- Call for artists for Wasanii 2006 and First Kuona Trust
Landscape Workshop
- Call for applications to Theertha Workshop, Sri Lanka
- Call for applications to Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire
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January/February
The
internet is a very powerful tool which is very rarely used
to it full capacity especially in the developing world where
we have to constantly battle with service providers about
slow connections, cap off limitations or just plain lousy
service. However it is still a fantastic mine of information
and connectivity whatever speed one is running at and we at
the Bagfactory soon plan to make better use of it.
The Bagfactory website is currently undergoing a revamp and
the new site will be uploaded in beta form later this month.
We are hoping to add a number of new features which will include
an online discussion forum which will reflect some of the
discussions sessions that will take place at the Bagfactory
and then be extended to our wider online audience. More information
on this to follow.
Rat Western
Newsletter editor
Do you have a submission for our newsletter or a topic
you would like to suggest for an informal discussion session
at the Bag Factory?
Please mail comments and suggestions to rat@bagfactoryart.org.za.
We welcome your feedback.
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News Bytes
New Residents at the Bagfactory
For the first quarter of 2006 the Bagfactory welcomes three new residents - PAUL HENDRIKSE from The Netherlands; DEREK MAWUDOKU from the UK and IVES MAES from Belgium. The three new artists will be presenting some of their work at 2pm on Friday 3 February 2006 at the Bagfactory 10 Mahlatini (was Minaar) street Fordsburg. All are welcome to attend.
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SAartsEmerging
Last month saw the launch of a new South African arts website
by three Johannesburg based artists - Nathaniel Stern; Bronwyn
Lace and Simon Gush.
SAartsEmerging.org, who's tag line is no
pretense of objectivity, is a site which, in their own words,
"Provides a free South African alternative to the gallery-driven,
Cape Town-based, and mainstream media, SAartsEmerging.org is
dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators
and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not yet
been, written about - but who should be."
SAartsEmerging.org
proposes to feature a new artists profile every month (third
Fridays). Please visit the website to read more about this new
concept and to view the profile of the first featured artist,
Donna Kukama.
SAartsEmerging will also be having a party in
celebration of their launch on 9 February, 2006 at the Berlin
Bar in Johannesburg, 7th street, Melville (across and down from
Xai Xai)
18:30ish till whenever.
Cash bar.
A site-specific installation
by Bronwyn Lace will also be featured at the event.
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Very Real Time 2 Discussion Series
Saturday 4 February at the Point Blank Gallery, Drill Hall,
Johannesburg will see the launch of the Very Real Time 2 Discussion
Series an initiative by artist Greg Smith.
Very Real Time is an ongoing program of research and contemporary
art projects in Cape Town and Johannesburg. It sets out to investigate
the spaces between people in South African cities, taking into
account the complex historic, social and urban forces which
influence the intimate life of the individual.
The discussion series will look at three topics 'Personal
Rituals of self-preservation' and Love, sex and intimate relationships
will be discussed by an invited panelists including Achille
Mbembe, Lisa Vetten, Zanele Mashinini and Stephen Rothenburg,
Rory Bester, Jyoti Mistry and Constant Ntlokwana Media. The
evening will be chaired by Gregg Smith.
The discussion at the Drill Hall will be followed by an online
forum, running from February 16 to March 2. A third topic
will enter the debate around 'The value of 'socially engaged
art''. An extensive list of national and international cultural
practioners has been invited to participate.
The outcomes will effectively form the basis for an artists'
residency project
for 5 local and international artists in September 2006 in
Cape Town.
Very Real Time was first initiated in Cape Town in 2003, with
a residency for 7 local and visiting artists who focused on
their own personal encounters in the city. The project is
organised by artist Gregg Smith (South Africa/Paris), in collaboration
with the Joubert Park Project.
José Ferreira will present an intervention at the
Drill Hall launch produced in collaboration with fashion designers
StrangeLove. Special thanks to Tegan Bristow for collaborating
on the technical aspects of the project, Don Wood for assisting
with the technology and programming, TC and Lara Rivera.
The event is for free and open to the public. Please RSVP.
For information please phone Dorothee Kreutzfeldt at 011 333
1112.
Very Real Time is a member of the RAIN artists' initiative
network and is supported by the Stichting Doen and RAIN/Rijksakademie
van Beeldende Kunsten (Netherlands).
The event will be from 5.30 for 6 pm till 9 pm
Entrance Plein Street, Joubert Park
This project is hosted by the Joubert Park Project.
http://www.veryrealtime.co.za
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AfricanColours invites your comment on this topic: 'Drawing
a Realistic Picture of Africa'
Art is often said to be among the forms of creativity, which
mankind has remained addicted to for centuries past. It is indisputable
that an extensive and unknown quantity of African Art ranging
from paintings, sculptures, masks, handicrafts and even curios
– are now displayed or retained as collections in the
West. But do these works regularly displayed overseas; reflect
a realistic image of Africa?
Please visit the AfricanColours website to view comment and
contribute your opinion to this topical debate.
http://www.africancolours.net/content/8225
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Jill Trappler At Ava
Jill Trappler of Greatmore studios, (the Bagfactory's regional
partner in Cape Town) will be showing an exhibition of new work
entitled THIS IS WHERE WE MEET at the Association For Visual
Arts in Partnership with Spier, 35 Church street, Cape Town.
The show will be opened by JOE WOLPE at 6pm on Monday, 13 February
2006. The exhibition closes on Friday, 3 March at 3:30pm.
Gallery
hours:
Weekdays: 10h00 to 17h00,
Saturday: 10h00 to 13h00
Tel:
021 424 7436
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Opportunities
Department of Science and Technology Competition
The Department of Science and Technology is hosting a competition to procure artwork for their prestigious new Head Offices in Pretoria. The closing date for sculptural proposals has been extended to 15 February. Proposals for all other media will be accepted until 3 April 2006.
For more information please contact
Ms Ntombentsha Mavuso
Tel: 012 317 4597
Email:ntombentsha.mavuso@dst.gov.za
OR
Christina du Toit
Tel: 012 317 4579/4335
Cell: 083 675 6302
Fax: 086 681 0014
Email: christina.dutoit@dst.gov.za
Or visit the website:
http://www.dst.gov.za/art_competition/index.php
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Sasol Wax Art Award
Nominations for the Sasol Wax Art Award will close on the 20th February 2006.
The award, which offers a purse of R 130 000, was opened in late 2005 to recognise the achievements and
contribution of professional artists working in South Africa.
Any artist resident in South Africa, who has participated in at least four group exhibitions and has
mounted two solo shows, is eligible for nomination. They need not have been working with wax prior to
nomination.
Ten semi-finalists will be selected following a comprehensive nomination and judging process that will
focus on the artists' career profiles and activity within the visual arts sector. They will then be asked
to propose a body of work using wax as a component, either through process, medium or concept, from which
five finalists will be selected. Finalists each receive R 20 000 toward the production of these works for
exhibition.
Further information and nomination requirements are available from the Award
organizers,
Carola Ross and Associates at 011 726 2502 or on
email
hotmango@mweb.co.za
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Call for artists for Wasanii 2006 and First Kuona Trust Landscape Workshop
Kuona trust in Kenya are inviting artists to apply for their first Landscape Workshop to be held from the 13th - 25th March 2006. They are seeking 10 Kenyan artists and 5 international artists who will work at a wilderness site, a forest or other nature conservatory, in close proximity to Nairobi, for a period of 2 weeks. Artists would create work from the natural materials (twigs, leaves, fallen branches, stones) found at the site without destroying or damaging the landscape and leave the work at the site after the workshop.
Kuona trust are also currently inviting applications for the Wasanii workshop 2006
For more information on these projects and for detail on how to apply please visit
http://www.kuonatrust.org/readMore.aspx?#
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Call for applications to Theertha Workshop, Sri Lanka
Applications for performing or installation artists of all nationalities are welcome now at the Theertha
Workshop, which is due to take place between 18th March to 2nd April 2006.
The workshop is based on the Triangle model, inviting around 20 international and Sri Lankan artists to
work together for up to two weeks.
Further information: Please contact organisers via the Theertha website
http://www.theertha.org/htm/workshops.htm
Application deadline: Currently ongoing
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Call for applications to Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire
Braziers Workshop is a non-profit making organisation set up in 1995. Taking place each
August, it is an artist-led initiative which strives to provide a meeting point for
artists working in all visual disciplines. It brings together up to 30 artists of all
nationalities for 16 days to work, exchange dialogue and experiment in a way that is
mutually beneficial.
The workshop is of most value to artists who have an established practice.
http://www.braziersworkshop.org for more information.
Deadline: 25th February
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