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Art News:
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THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Opening of the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Concert To, presented at the Sasol Art Museum
25 May - 8 June 2013
This unconventional concert will be performed every hour and half for the duration of the exhibition. In this project composers and sound artists were asked to compose an electronic piece of no more than ten minutes for a stereo speaker set-up. This makes it possible to perform the pieces without the need of musicians and being able to play them for as long as possible. The theme of this project is about low quality digital storage and reproduction. The latter refers to the current digital trend to store digital media as small as possible, discarding the quality in the process and creating a discrepancy between the original version and its reproduction. This issue had to be translated musically into an electronic piece. Read more
GIPCA invites proposals for interdisciplinary project on LAND
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) invites proposals for an interdisciplinary event, LAND, that will explore ideas around land and territory. Grounded within a contemporary, historical, aesthetic, material and political understanding of ‘land’ in South Africa, the project will comprise a colloquium, performances, exhibitions and other interventions, and will take place in the second half of October 2013.
In acknowledgement of the centenary of the infamous Natives Land Act of 1913, there is a national focus on land as a vessel of trade, trauma, and restitution. With this in mind, is it possible to talk about land within (as well as beyond) these frames, in terms of its atmospheres, materialities and aesthetics? Read more
In Conversation With...
Yoko Ono, Imagine Peace Tower. Photo: TetsuRo Hamada. © Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
By Karlyn De Jongh & Sarah Gold
Driven by a wish to do good to society, Yoko Ono (1933, Tokyo, Japan) creates works - ideas, scores, performances, sculptures, installations, music - that a.o. address the effect of ideas on the actions of human beings, allowing the viewer to see things in a new light. This year, Ono will present her new work ARISING at the 55th Venice Biennale at Palazzo Bembo, exhibition PERSONAL STRUCTURES.
Sarah Gold: In our 55th Biennale di Venezia exhibition PERSONAL STRUCTURES you show your work ARISING. What does the title mean to you?
Yoko Ono: We, women, are now rising together. ARISING expresses the rising of our spirits.
SG: The work ARISING consists out of ‘burnt women’ from different cultures from all over the world. Their ‘remains’ will be put on display and visitors may take small fragments in boxes provided. Could you explain why you ‘burn’ the women and then why their ‘remains’ may be taken by ‘strangers’?
YO: It is a symbolic act of what women are going through in our world on this planet. We are being burnt, drowned, chained and raped and humiliated. Read more
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