Guest video-screening programme: Contemporary South Africa
ISIS Arts, UK and BEK, Norway present
Contemporary South Africa
A new video screening programme of established and emerging contemporary South African artists
17.09.2010, 18:30-19:30, Studio 7, Art Academy
The cultural isolation of the apartheid years has made is difficult for artistic endeavour to survive with ease but the international art world began to open to South Africa in 1993 when the Venice Biennale included South African artists for the first time. Embracing the international artistic community was taken a step further with the Johannesburg Biennale in 1995, which brought the international art world to the country. The video works in this programme explore the social landscape of South Africa, focusing on the dynamic interactions between and with place and time, land and people, past and present, present and future. The work raises the powerful questions, how should our future look and how do we face our past?
http://www.isisarts.org.uk
http://www.bek.no
Participating artists and works:
Bridget Baker - Steglitz House 9:00 2009-10
Eduardo Cachucho - Water 1:53 2008
Hasan & Husain Essop - Visising the Revolution 3:00 2010
Nadine Hutton - Ignore Me 2:29 2009
Jessica Gregory & Zen Marie - The Perfect Leader 4:31 2009
Bongani Khoza - In Transit 12:14 2007
Nandipha Mntambo - Ukungenisa 2:30 2008
Robyn Nesbitt & Nina Barnett - Warcry 0:40 2008
Berni Searle - Gateway 4:00 2010
Donna Kukama - Swing 4:54 2009
