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Kathryn Smith (b. 1975, Durban) graduated from Wits University with an MAFA (distinction) in 1999. Her practice owes much to the forensic investigator’s ability to recreate inferred narratives from material that can often be described as informational or media artefacts. Working in photography, video, performance and installation, her research-based methods reconstitute information, whether visual or textual, historically accurate or somewhat fictional. These methodical recreations (or reinventions) of events or situations are seldom presented as complete ‘histories’, but rather as abstracted moments and suggestive details: fragmented micro-narratives rather than an attempt at synthesis. Operating at the interface of the secret histories and unspoken desires that exist between private and public spaces, her work is engaged with the moment of modernity and its related technologies, particularly with respect to opticality, visuality and the development of psychoanalysis and criminology; and is innately tied to the Romantic notion of the art of murder. Smith also works as a curator and writer, with recent editorial projects including One Million and Forty-Four years (and Sixty Three Days), an anthology of current attitudes towards the avant-garde (SMAC Gallery, 2007); and substantive monographs on artists Penny Siopis and Sam Nhlengethwa for Goodman Gallery Editions. She was an invited contributor to Gerardo Mosquera and Jean Fisher’s Over Here: International Perspectives In Art and Culture (New Museum of Contemporary Art/MIT Press, 2004) and Sophie Perryer’s 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa (Bell-Roberts/Struik, 2004) and acted as curatorial correspondent for T1 (Turin, 2005), co-curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. She has contributed articles to Contemporary, Artist Profile, a-n and Flash Art, and is a regular contributor to Art South Africa. A founding director of the Trinity Session in 1999, she now holds a senior lectureship in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Stellenbosch. Her work is actively shown and collected in South Africa and abroad. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 |
MA(FA) by Coursework and Research (with distinction), University of the
Witwatersrand Research thesis: Limits Of Excess: Abjection In The Photographic Work Of Joel-Peter Witkin Graduate exhibition: Lifetime Guarantee, Generator Art Space, Johannesburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | BA(FA), majoring in Printmaking (with distinction), University of the Witwatersrand Research paper: Violence and Abjection in Contemporary South African Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS * indicates Catalogue/Publication | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | In Camera, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (in production) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 - 2005 | Euphemism, commissioned by the Standard Bank Young Artist Award * National tour, including National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, University of the OFS, Bloemfontein; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Jack in Johannesburg, Johannesburg Art Gallery. As part of Christian Nerf’s 24.7 residency programme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 |
Hell Yeah, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town. Curated by Christian
Nerf and Doug Gimberg The Loaded Lens, Goodman Gallery Cape The Art Happens Here, Galerie OTOK, Dubrovnik, Croatia POSI+IVE Pulse, Sun City. Curated by Koulla Xinisteris KO Video: Popular Selection, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 |
Shared History/Decolonising the Image. W139 & Arti & Amicitiae,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2006 Spit II, University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, Stellenbosch The Cape Town Biennale @ blank projects. Blank projects, Cape Town Art & Storytelling, Johannesburg Art Gallery. Curated by Nessa Leibhammer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Click – local and international photography, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg KO Video, KZNSA Gallery, Durban. Curated by Greg Streak 2004
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Art Basel Miami Beach, Goodman Gallery * | Making Waves: a selection of works from the SABC Art Collection. Curated by Koulla Xinisteris. Johannesburg Art Gallery * 2003
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Art Basel (Switzerland), Goodman Gallery | OK Video, Jakarta. Curated by Greg Streak * Fotofiesta Medellin, Museo de Anioquia and Centro Colombo Americano, Colombia Clean/Grime, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn * +27 Sessions, online broadcast of digital, electronic and video works for Translocal Channel/How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA YDEsire, collaboration with Christian Nerf, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town 2002
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Clean. Curated by Retha Erasmus. Millennium II, Johannesburg | Grime. Curated by Retha Erasmus. Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town 2001
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ABSA Atelier Award, finalist, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg * | FNB Vita Art Prize, NSA Gallery, Durban, and Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg. Shortlisted Artist.* 2000
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A.R.E.A. 2000, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland. Curated by Gavin Younge * | Open Circuit: Pulse, NSA gallery, Durban. Curated by Greg Streak * Art in the world 2000, Paris. Curated by Fabrice Bousteau * Tour Guides of the Inner City, Market Theatre Galleries. Curated by Stephen Hobbs Magic Moments, JHB Civic Gallery. Curated by Minnette Vari Emotions and Relations, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn and Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg. Curated by Hentie van der Merwe. Unplugged V and Retrospective, Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg 1999
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Postcards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York | Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria Exchange, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg COLLECTIONS
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South African National Gallery | Johannesburg Art Gallery Standard Bank Investment Corporation South African Broadcasting Corporation BHP Billiton SA City of Johannesburg Grahamstown Foundation Sasol Limited Various private collections in South Africa and Abroad. SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS
| 2004-2005 |
Euphemism * National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Durban Art Gallery, Durban;
Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, University of the OFS, Bloemfontein; South
African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg | Solo exhibition of my own work including two-dimensional work, two video installations and selected works by British painter Walter Sickert, drawn from South African public (museum) collections 2004 |
Guest curator for 'The Storytellers' by Nathaniel Stern, Johannesburg Art
Gallery | 2003 |
MTN New Contemporaries Award, invited curator, MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg * | Shortlisted artists: Matthew Hindley, Alison Kearney, Thando Mama (overall winner), Hannes Olivier, Lolo Veleko DaimlerChrysler Award for Creative Photography (with David Brodie), MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg Shortlisted artists: Angela Buckland, Jakob Doman, Stephen Hobbs, Brent Meistre, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Jo Ractliffe, Andrew Tshabangu, Guy Tillim 2002 |
The Trials of Dr Kawalski by William Scarbrough, The Premises Gallery, Johannesburg | Interactive projection, sound pieces and prints by New York-based artist body II: sublimation, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn * Featured artists: Candice Breitz , Paul Edmunds, Brad Hammond, Moshekwa Langa, Jo Ractliffe, Colin Richards, William Scarbrough (US), Usha Seejarim, Dave Southwood 2001 |
Move Your Shadow (with curatorial fellowship awarded to Mpho Taulela), Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand. | Accompanying the international conference: The Burden Of Race: Whiteness and Blackness in the New South Africa. Featuring works from the Wits Art Galleries collection and Standard Bank Collection of African Art with works by invited artists and aspects of popular media culture (TV inserts, commercials, film etc). Invited artists: Robin Rhode, Christian Nerf, Brett Murray, Peter Engblom body: rest & motion, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn * Featured artists: Lisa Brice, Kevin Brand, Natasha Christopher, Robert Hodgins, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Amichai Tahor, Sharmila Samant (India), Greg Streak, Penny Siopis, Christian Nerf, Jose Ferreira, Richard Penn, Stephen Hobbs, Frances Goodman, Brett Murray, Sam Nhlengethwa, Tracey Rose, Minnette Varí, Paul Stopforth, Dave Southwood 2000 - 2002 |
Research and Curatorial assistant, Adler Museum of Medicine, Johannesburg
| 1999 |
Prosthetic by William Scarbrough, Graduate School for the Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand | Interactive multimedia piece with spoken word performance, performed by the curator on behalf of the artist 1998 |
Histories of the Present, Downstairs at the Theatre, University of the Witwatersrand. | Accompanying the 4th Annual Qualitative Methods Conference. Curatorial approach was ‘soft’ (open call for proposals in relation to exhibition statement of intent). Final selection included visual and performance artists, web-based work, fanzines and comix artists, with international guest Orlan (France) EDITED/CO-AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
| 2007 | | One Million and Forty-Four Years (and Sixty Three Days). SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch An anthology of responses to questions concerning the state of the avant-garde by South African and international artists, critics, curators and historians (317pp) | ||||
| 2006 |
Sam Nhlengethwa.Goodman Gallery Editions, Johannesburg Career-survey monograph with contributions from Nadine Gordimer, Alex Dodd, David Koloane, Johnny Mekoa, Robert Hodgins, Tim Modise and John Stremlau (182pp) 2005 | | Penny Siopis. Goodman Gallery Editions,Johannesburg Career-survey monograph with contributions from Colin Richards, Griselda Pollock, Brenda Atkinson, Jennifer Law, Penny Siopis, Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe (176pp) Art @ Work. Sasol Limited, Johannesburg Featuring highlights from the collection 1994 – 2004 and a critical survey of the collection since its formal inception in 1983. 2002 | | Broadcast Quality: the Art of Big Brother II The Trinity Session and Bell-Roberts Publishing,Johannesburg and Cape Town. Catalogue featuring profiles on 39 contemporary South African artists and essays looking at television as an alternative public art ‘space’ (72pp) 2001 - 2003 | | Klein Karoo National Arts Festival visual arts catalogues
| 1999 | | From Method To Madness: Five Years Of Qualitative Enquiry. Edited by Hook, D., Smith, K., Bowman, B. and Terre Blanche, M. Histories Of The Present Press: Johannesburg (CD-ROM)
| SELECTED ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
| 2006
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‘Grass Grows from the Middle’. Catalogue essay for exhibition But being a
sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep
again by Bridget Baker, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town | ‘Culture Games’. Catalogue essay for exhibition Take Me To Your Leader by Daniel Halter, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town ‘Live and Direct: an interview with RoseLee Goldberg’. Art South Africa volume 5.1 (Spring) ‘MTN New Contemporaries’. Art South Africa volume 5.1 (Spring) ‘Casting the Net Widely’. Art South Africa vol. 4, issue 3 (Autumn) ‘Zanele Muholi’. Art South Africa vol. 4, issue 4 (Winter) 2005
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‘T1 The Pantagruel Syndrome’. In Bonami, Francesco and Christov-
Bakargiev, Carolyn (eds) The Pantagruel Syndrome. Skira Editore, Italy | ‘An Accidental Situationist, or what happened when Battiss thought out loud’ in Walter Battiss: Gentle Anarchist. Standard Bank, Johannesburg 'Tales of Two Cities: Johannesburg’. Commissioned by Deborah Smith for a-n magazine, March 2005 2004
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‘Keepin’ It Real’ (extended version), in Mosquera, Gerardo and Fisher, Jean
(eds) Over Here: International Perspectives In Art and Culture. New Museum
of Contemporary Art, New York and MIT Press | Contributing selector/author for Perryer, Sophie (ed) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa. Bell-Roberts/Struik, Cape Town. Entries for Candice Breitz, Alison Kearney, Christian Nerf, Colin Richards, Penny Siopis, Doreen Southwood, Greg Streak 2003
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'Present Company Included': catalogue essay for Skip by Terry Kurgan. Bell-
Roberts, Cape Town | 'Let’s Go To Your Place': catalogue essay for Show Me Home, curated by Mads Damsbo, Johannesburg Art Gallery 'Kim Lieberman', Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 4 (Winter) 2002
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'Penny Siopis', Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 2, (Summer) | ‘Criminal Aesthetics’ co-authored with Christian Nerf, zine 113: the liaison, San Francisco ‘Violence’, Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 1 (Spring) ‘Fuga/city’ in Usha Seejarim, Fresh monograph series, South African National Gallery, Cape Town ‘it is impossible to appreciate the importance of space without taking into account the significance of echoes’, in Tilkin, Daniela (curator) Dislocacion: Imagen and Identidad Sudafrica. La Fabrica/Photoespana ‘Patinas for violence: Representation and a forensic gaze’ in Streak, Greg (ed.) Violence/Silence. Durban/Nieu Bethesda/The Netherlands: Pulse/Ibis Art Centre/Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs ‘Alison Kearney, Nicholas Hlobo and Hannes Olivier’, Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 3 (Autumn) ‘Daphne Prevoo’, Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 3 (Autumn) ‘Weighing up the competitions’, Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 1 (Spring) 2001
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‘Bonita Alice: the intractability of roots’. Catalogue essay for Giving and Not
Giving by Bonita Alice. Bell-Roberts, Cape Town | ‘Convergence/Divergence: Voyages into Mutant Technologies’. Catalogue essay for south/sul, curated by José Ferreira, Johannesburg/Maputo ‘Keepin’ It Real’ in Silent Zones: On Globalisation And Cultural Interaction. Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten for RAIN Artists’ Initiatives Network: Amsterdam ‘Landscapes of Memory’, Flash Art, vol. XXXIV, no. 218, May-June ‘Juncture’, [a-n] magazine, May ‘Juncture’, Flash Art, vol. XXXIV, no. 217, March-April ‘Beauty and the savage beasts’. Mail & Guardian, Standard Bank National Arts Festival supplement, June 8-14 2000
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‘South African Video Art, or South African Artists and their Videos?’ in Streak,
Greg (ed.) Pulse: Open Circuit. R.A.I.N., Technikon Natal and NSA Gallery,
Durban. Exhibition catalogue and conference proceedings | ‘Conversing with Pain: Berni Searle’s darker shades of light’ and ‘Claudette Schreuders: the primitive pull of recognition’. Catalogue essays for the FNB Vita Art prize, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg ‘Cross Sections and Transgressions: a curatorial/cultural dissection of Two Icons: the Atom, the Body ’ (with James Sey) in Art: Spaces and Contexts Of Display, proceedings of the 16th annual conference of the SAAAH “Emergence’. Interview with the curators of the ‘Emergence’ exhibition, De Arte. 1998
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‘Cyborg Culture and the Politics of Visual Transgression’ (with James Sey), in
Histories Of The Present, proceedings of the 4th Annual Qualitative Methods
Conference | SELECTED REVIEWS
| 2005 - 2007
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Print, media, radio, television. Not yet archived
| 2004
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de Jager, Maureen. ‘Evidence and Artifice’, Art South Africa, vol 3, issue 2,
Summer (cover story) | Richards, Colin, ‘Kathryn Smith’, 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa. Cape Town: Bell-Roberts/Struik Machen, Peter. ‘A twisted world of celebrity and vice’, Sunday Independent, December 12 Sey, James. ‘Kathryn Smith’, Art South Africa, vol. 3, issue 1, Spring (lead review) Richards, Colin. ‘Dead Certainties: the Art of Kathryn Smith’. Catalogue essay for Euphemism, Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Arts, Johannesburg Sassen, Robyn. ‘Creating Narratives from Debris’, South African Jewish Report, July 2 – 9, 2004 Schmahmann, Brenda. Through The Looking Glass: Representations Of Self By South African Women Artists. Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing 2003
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Maart, Brenton. ‘Curating the difference’, Art South Africa, vol. 2, issue 1,
Spring 2003 | Murinik, Tracy. ‘Grime’, Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 1, Spring 2002 O’Toole, Sean. ‘Artbio’, www.artthrob.co.za, December/January, 2003 Murinik, Tracy. ‘The next generation’, Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 4, Winter 2003 Olivier, Bert. Sublimation, De Arte Sey, James. ‘Narrating The State’, Art South Africa, vol. 1, issue 3, Autumn 2003 Siopis, Penny. ‘The Space Between: The Trinity Session’, Art South Africa, Vol 01, Issue 03, Autumn 2003 2002
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Interview with Eric Miyeni, SAFM, April (radio) | ‘Kathryn Smith still climbing to the top – without ever having a ‘real job’’, The Star ‘Awesome Women 2002’, Cosmopolitan, December Interviews with Michelle Constant, SAFM (radio) Interview with Barry Ronge, 702 (radio) 2001
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Fowle, Kate. ‘Inside Out’, [A-N], April, 2001 | Atkinson, B. ‘Clean – An Exhibition of De-Saturated Contemporary Art’, http://www.artthrob.co.za/01nov/reviews/millennium.html Sey, James (2001) ‘Forensic Aesthetics and Death in Series’, FNB Vita Art Prize catalogue essay 2000
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Atkinson, Brenda. ‘Phantom Presences’, Mail & Guardian, July 21 – 27 | van Rensburg, Wilhelm. ‘Atelier-prys se veertiende jaar ‘n hoogtepunt, Beeld, March 22 Dodd, Alex. ‘Inverting the chain letter doom’, Mail & Guardian, February 11 – 17 1999
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Johnson, Nina. ‘Existential Enigmas and Mortal Malapropisms’, Sunday
Independent, April 25 | Britten, Sarah. ‘Casualty unit nurses with balls not fazed by trauma virgin metaphor’, Sunday Independent, September 12 Cotter, Holland. ‘Postcards from South Africa’, New York Times, September 10, p E36 Atkinson, Brenda. ‘Paying the Prize’, Mail & Guardian, September 3-9 ‘Body Part Art’, But Is It Art?, SABC 3, prod. Heather Dugmore Burger, Lucia. ‘8 Jong Kunstenaars’, De Kat, May Du Preez, Amanda. ‘Jonges se kuns ondersoek basiese vrae’, Beeld, June 3 Braudo, Colette. ‘(id)entity/Six Pack - A Showcase of Unity in Diversity’, www.fe-mail.co.za, May 6 1998
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Atkinson, Brenda. ‘Dealing in Death’, Mail & Guardian, September 11-17 | Johnson, Nina. ‘Prepare to be shocked, then bask in beauty’, Sunday Independent, September 13, 1998 (review) Johnson, Olivia. ‘Gutsy art exhibition not for the faint-hearted’, Rosebank Killarney Gazette, week ending March 27 AWARDS, RESEARCH AND RESIDENCIES (SELECTED)
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Invited curatorial correspondent and conference participant, Biennale of
Sydney, Australia | 2007
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iCommons Summit Artist-in-Residence scholarship, Dubrovnik, Croatia | Dean’s Fund grant for conference participation, University of Stellenbosch 2006
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research development Grant, University of Stellenbosch | 2005
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International correspondent for Torino Triennale Treimusei - The Pantagruel
Syndrome, curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev,
Torino
National Arts Council grant for workshops conducted by City+Suburban
Studios | 2004
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Business and Arts South Africa (grant) | Residency Studio XX, Montreal, Canada Residency at Artists’ Press, Mpumalanga. Produced Peculiar Modern Behaviour, a portfolio of ten hand-printed photogravure and lithograph prints. 2003
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Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Arts 2004 | Ampersand Fellowship, New York (residency Jan/Feb 2005) Production grant for Jack in Johannesburg: The Goodman Gallery National Arts Council (grant) Symposium: The Art of Murder: Representation and Crime in Late Victorian Britain, Tate Britain. Research trip supported by The Goodman Gallery 2002
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Inaugural Wits Convocation/Alumni Bright Star Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and Humanities
| 2001
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FNB Vita Art Prize (short-listed artist)
| 1999
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Sasol New Signatures Competition (overall winner)
| 1995-1998
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Research trip to Paris towards MA(FA) degree: personal interviews with Joel-Peter Witkin | Centre for Scientific Development scholarship Giovanna Millner Scholarship for local or overseas travel CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION | 2007
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iCommons Summit 07, Dubrovnik, Croatia | 2006
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Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver introductory course, University of
Stellenbosch (internal staff development) | Orientation workshop for young/new researchers, University of Stellenbosch Grant Writing workshop, University of Stellenbosch Postgraduate supervision workshop, facilitated by Johann Mouton, University of Stellenbosch VANSA National conference, Hiddingh Hall, University of Cape Town 2005
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Crime Talks, Constitution Hill | 2004
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Art Critical writing workshop, Johannesburg Art Gallery | Art Criticism Imbazo, Gallery MOMO 2003
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Cape Africa Platform Stakeholders Workshop, CTICC, Cape Town | South African Museums Association annual conference, National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria, June 2 – 6 (invited speaker) PANSA/BASA Arts Marketing Conference, Johannesburg Civic Theatre, May 21 – 23 2002
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Violence/Silence NSA Gallery, Durban | 2001
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Pulse: Open Circuit, NSA Gallery, Durban | 2000
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Art: Spaces and Contexts Of Display. 16th annual conference of the South
African Association of Art Historians | Joubert Park Project Open Day, Johannesburg Art Gallery Pulse: Open Circuit, Technikon Natal in conjunction with R.A.I.N. (Rijksakademie International Network) 1999
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5th Annual Qualitative Methods Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg | 1998
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Negotiating Identities. 14th Annual Conference of the South | 4th Annual Qualitative Methods Conference, Wits University, Johanne 1997
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3rd Annual Qualitative Methods Conference, UNISA, Durban | LECTURESHIPS etc
| 2006
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Senior lectureship, University of Stellenbosch (full-time position) | External examiner, Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town 2005
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Guest lecturer: MA Curatorial Practice, MA Visual Culture, undergraduate
photography students, California College of the Arts (San Francisco and
Oakland) | External examiner, Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town 2004
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Guest lecturer, 4th year Art Criticism, Wits School of the Arts, University of the
Witwatersrand | Guest lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology 2003
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Guest lecturer, MA (Social Sculpture), Brooks University, Oxford, UK | 2003
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MAFA degree supervision, Wits School of the Arts (50% contract post) | 2002
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Guest lecturer, Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town | 2002, 2000
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Guest lecturer, University of Pretoria | 1998 - 2000
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Part-time and bursary positions, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg | APPENDIX: TRINITY SESSION PROJECTS
| GENERAL
| 2004 |
Development of strategy for Johannesburg Cultural Arc Public Artworks programme | Launch of purpose-built The Premises contemporary art and event space, Johannesburg Civic Theatre. Developed in conjunction with Johannesburg Civic Theatre, Sappi, City of Johannesburg and Johannesburg Development Agency 2003 | |
Creative Inner City Initiative consultancy, visual arts training and management for
inner city youth, Berea, Hillbrow, Joubert Park with Joubert Park Project, Lapeng and
Greenhouse Project. Establishment of training school and magazine.
| 2001 | | The Premises project room/gallery established, Johannesburg Civic Theatre. Closed
early 2002 in preparation for new purpose-built space.
| PUBLICATIONS
| 2003 | | Space Repurposed,artists and works of the Red Bull Music Academy, Cape Town. Knap! Zine-format catalogue for Klein Karoo National Arts Festival 2002 | |
Broadcast Quality: The Art of Big Brother II. Johannesburg: Trinity Session/Bell-
Roberts In No Particular Order: South African Video Art. Video showreel commissioned by the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie for the 16th Recontres Video et Art Plastique, Normandy, France SME Development and Employment in the Cultural Sector in the SADC Region: The Visual Art and Craft Industries. Research report prepared for the International Labour Office (ILO), Geneva 2001 | | From the Ground, Up. Short documentary film for the Joubert Park Public Art Project 14” of Reality. Short documentary film for R.A.I.N./trama workshops, Argentina AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
| 2003 | |
Spier Estate: thinktank residency sessions for future Spier arts projects Residency at Station Mir, Hérouville St-Clair, Normandy, France 2002 | |
The Pseudo-Bureaucracy of the Network Neighbourhood, residency and exhibition,
KunstRaum, Linz, Austria. Curated by Maren Richter
| LECTURESHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
| 2003 | |
Presentation to MA Social Sculpture students, Brookes University, Oxford, UK
| EXHIBITIONS
| 2003 | |
In No Particular Order (anthology of South African video art), screened at the Festival
Internacional de Video/Arte/Electronica, Lima, Peru M.O.: Trinity Session Artministration, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (solo exhibition) In No Particular Order (selected works). Playtime new media art festival, Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg +27 Sessions (curated collection of digital, electronic and video works for online broadcast), Translocal Channel/How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA. Invited artists for Cross-Border Cultures Artists Labs (with Torolab – Mexico and De Waag – The Netherlands) at Transmediale.03 ‘Play Global!’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Andreas Broekmann * In No Particular Order, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn * 2002 | |
Safe Food II: Mr Delivery. Commissioned exhibition for New Strategies, World Summit
on Sustainable Development exhibition programme, Johannesburg Art Gallery * Tricrotic. Commissioned video installation for the 16th Rencontres Video Art Plastique, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Normandy, France * SafeFood at BIG Torino, Biennale for Young Art, Turin, Italy 8 Radiotopia: the South Africa Sessions, The Horror Café, Johannesburg, for Ars Electronica Festival 2002, Linz, Austria. The Pseudo-Bureaucracy of the Network Neighbourhood, residency and exhibition, KunstRaum, Linz, Austria. Curated by Maren Richter To Have and To Hold, Station Propeller experimental art space, Linz, Austria. Curated by Paula Paul PROFESSIONAL CURATORIAL APPOINTMENTS AND CONSULTATION
| 2003 | |
Red Bull Music Academy. Full spatial design of music academy and placement of
artworks, Cape Town * Faraday Precinct public art consultation, in conjunction with Joubert Park Project and Albonico and Sack Architects |
| 2002 |
Big Brother II curatorial and visual arts consultation Cell C for The City, Artists Billboard Project, Johannesburg * Exhibition production and installation for body II: sublimation, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival * 2001 | |
Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City, Johannesburg, research and installations Reuters 125th birthday (South Africa) exhibition solutions, Johannesburg Red Bull Creativity Contest in conjunction with JMC Melnicks for Spark Gallery, Johannesburg Arts & Culture Trust Awards of the President. Event facilitating live art and installation environment Blindspot. Production and technical assistance for video exhibition curated by Christian Nerf and Rhett Martyn. Gundane Studios, Vrededorp, Johannesburg Bite You on the Ass(thetics) in conjunction with Bite Restaurant, Greenside My Name on Your Lips. Public video projection for Dias & Riedweg, Tandoor, Rockey Street CMMSSNR. Solo project by Stephen Hobbs in collaboration with Signal Interactive and The Original Levi’s Store, Sandton City. Daniel Johnston Live at the Bassline in association with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Cape Town www.onair.co.za creative online project space for developing a ‘network neighbourhood’ |
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