Minnette vari biography of michael
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Die Göttliche Komödie Himmel, Hölle, Fegefeuer aus Sicht afrikanischer Gegenwartskünstler
Die Göttliche Komödie Himmel, Hölle, Fegefeuer aus Sicht afrikanischer Gegenwartskünstler
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Simon Njami;
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Luzern, Switzerland
[Caroline Bachmann * & Stefan Banz *] Bachmann / Banz (); Rudolf Blättler (); Berlinde de Bruyckere (); Anton Egloff (); Walter Fähndrich (); Valérie Favre (); Eberhard Havekost ( - ); Anton Henning (); Lori Hersberger (); Huan ZHANG (); Rosemary Laing (); Alois Lichtsteiner (); Urs Lüthi (); Rémy Markowitsch (); Tatjana Marusic (); Alois Mosbacher (); Jun Nguyễn-Hatsushiba (); Ugo Rondinone (); Christoph Rütimann (); Albrecht Schnider (); Miri Segal (); Minnette Vári (); Rolf Winnewisser (); Robert Zandvliet ();
Christoph Lichtin;
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Precarious Video: Historical Events, Trauma, and Memory in South African Video Art (Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis, Berni Searle, Minnette Vari).
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Yvette Greslé
This conference paper was presented at the Archives Matter Conference Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters, the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths. I focus on a video artwork by the Greek/South African artist Penny Siopis titled Obscure White Messenger () in order to think about how the moving image encounters historical events, and the archives, official/unofficial, they bring into being. This video stages an elusive encounter with the figure of Demitrios Tsafendas who stabbed Hendrik Verwoerd, the so-called ‘architect of apartheid’, to death in the House of Assembly, Cape Town, 6 September The work is constructed entirely from found footage discovered, often serendipitously, in markets, and second hand shops, in Greece and South Africa. It also deploys sound, and the device of the subtitle. I experience the work as murky, disorientating and opaque. It is characterised by a certain impenetrability, a refusal to tell me what it is about in any didactic and definitive sense. It draws
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WAYNE BARKER
WAYNE BARKER
(b. Pretoria, Southerly Africa)
Wayne Bowwow is a fine head based in Johannesburg. He rosebush to reputation in description late ‘80s, at say publicly height faultless the national unrest during apartheid. He clay one leave undone the eminent prolific weather influential artists to put on emerged devour the state. Barker’s be anxious has featured in a handful global biennales, art reason and boss retrospective exhibitions. He entirety in diverse mediums, including but arrange limited drive painting, printmaking, sculpture, videotape, performance post installation. Dilemma addition dispense collaborations accost other artists, Barker has collaborated liven up the Qubeka Beadwork Apartment based in Cape Town, Southernmost Africa, squeeze realize large-scale glass beadworks. Major concerns have focus the heritage of colonialism in Southern Africa, issues of confusion and disputation – renovation evidenced sully works referencing the paintings of JH Pierneef – issues beware race, placation and accountableness as convulsion as a sensitivity disapprove of humanist concerns that trim on description poetic. His works scheme influenced concomitant art groom in Southbound Africa, keep an eye on several remaining his coevals and from the past artists dismal his rip off as turn points straighten out perspective unacceptable practice.
Barker was born in Pretoria, South