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COMMENTS
I have to say, Brendan, that your desccription of the everard resonates with the feeling one has upon entering this very website. The slick black headers announcing features, listings and so forth. [...]
jeeves allbright
When you start contacting specific people to talk around issues, then you are shutting down fluidity and informality. People will talk about what you want to talk about. Not that that is a bad thing, [...]
Robert Sloon
I think a good way to garner a response is to ask a specific question, as you are doing now. On the other hand, I'm not sure receiving concrete feedback is essential to my work as a writer. The [...]
Robert Sloon
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So on Friday me, Landi Raubenheimer and Paul Cooper will asking people to dump work from their private collections in a rubbish bin.
Please join Empty Office at the Bag Factory on Friday night for a
discussion about the role of local contemporary art in a democratic
state/neo-liberal economy.
Panelists
Michael Smith (Managing Editor of Artthrob)
Antoinette Murdoch (Director of the [...]
I asked what Robert Sloon said to his friends about my writing and he said that he would do this face-to-face. Just before that he told me that having a private debate about the lack of public dialogue in the art world is a bit of a paradox and then proceeds to say that he can only comment on my writing face to face, ie. privately. Me thinks the bravado if the art world outlaw is [...]
Thanks for the response on my piece on the Everard Read. A lot of people are saying that posting comments on this blog is a mission, so I will forward you comment to the administrative personel. The aesthetic of this website is completely out of my control. If I had my way I would go for a text heavy, academic look- no images, no scrolling banners. I would screen each interested [...]
How does
one measure the significance of an artist?
I suppose after reading the latest issue of Art South Africa that the
answer lies in two places- on foreign soil and in the market. It seems that the mark of an artist is the
extent to which they are recognised and noticed by audiences internationally,
or if you like by particular centres. The other way is the extent to which an [...]
Thanks
for the posting on Dis concert, Robert.
I know
what you mean by an organic, kind of on-the-ground response, but why does it
remain in those informal spaces? With the new blog format, there really is an
opportunity for some engaged fluid discussion which I believe does happen on the
pavement outside exhibition openings, in the car on the way home, over the
photocopy machine in [...]
At the end
of May, Anthea Buy's criticism of the Urban Concerns initiative at JAG and particularly
Sharlene Khan's contribution stirred up a hornet's nest. See my response.
I am all too
familiar with this scene of battle where a critic or writer expresses a view on
an artist's work, or a writer's work and the response is antagonistic. Chantal
Mouffe in her book, On [...]
There is a
general dearth of responsiveness in the local art world which is disconcerting
to the art writer. Michael Smith
mentioned recently that his "short cuts", the introduction to the website of
cheeky snapshots of shows in Gauteng
received no response in the feedback section of Artthrob this month. The same is true of Artheat, the most
volatile and popular forum for [...]
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JHB |
11 JUN - 12 JUL 2008, Art Extra
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JHB |
12 JUN - 5 JUL 2008, The Premises
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BFN |
1 JUL - 17 AUG 2008, Oliewenhuis Art Museum
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WC |
19 JUN - 25 AUG 2008, SMAC Gallery
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CPT |
23 JUN - 11 JUL 2008, Association For Visual Arts
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EC |
17 JUN - 12 JUL 2008, Strydom Gallery
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20 JUN - 27 JUL 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum
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DBN |
1 - 31 JUL 2008, African Art Centre
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DBN |
1 - 31 JUL 2008, African Art Centre
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Bell-Roberts Publishing, Goodman Gallery Editions
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