Listing(s)

'Aphroisms'

Malcolm Payne at YOUNGBLACKMAN

Malcolm Payne shows paintings, prints and a video projection.

16 March 2011 - 16 April 2011

'Removed'

Safia Stodel at YOUNGBLACKMAN

Relocation, displacement, impermanence and marginalisation have constructed the social landscapings of apartheid, and, as mapping,s have remained indelible. Stodel’s work references the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area near Delft on Cape Town’s flats and its thousand closely-stacked corrugated tin shacks: her animations dismantle and reassemble this landscape. Her process bleaches this location’s topographical lines onto black paper; the paper out of which she constructs and animates moving models of removal.

11 February 2011 - 11 March 2011

'Vex and Siolence'

Linda Stupart, Stuart Bird and Belinda Blignaut at YOUNGBLACKMAN

Stuart Bird, Belinda Blignaut and Linda Stupart present 'Vex and Siolence', a collaborative exhibition at YOUNGBLACKMAN. Building on the axes of anger and desire that each of the artists engage with in their individual practices, 'Vex and Siolence' displays an interrogation of the violence and pathos of everyday life, all the while demonstrating an acute lack of respect for the walls that define and enclose the gallery.   

The final act became the meaning

No-one cared


There will be a performance from 18:00 – 21:00 on opening night.

 

10 December 2010 - 10 December 2010

The Body in Question IV: La Mamma Morta

Athi-Patra Ruga at YOUNGBLACKMAN

In 2008, Ruga was commissioned by the Hebbel Am Ufer theatres to do a series of performances, which gave birth to the body in question series.

“I had been toying with the idea of making a Memento Mori for a dead mother without being smarmy, ‘ek sê’. I summoned the skills of greek baritone Alex Alexiou to collaborate in rescoring and performing the aria La Mamma Morta.
I then went ahead to create the character, modeling it on a famous Maria Callas portrait.

My original goal was to use the recurring theme of disembodiment, together with embodied images of dislocation to create an accessible work that interrogates ideas of HIV/Aids to evince the construct of hyper-femininity.
The work is dedicated to my mother and sister.”

 

24 November 2010 - 24 November 2010

'Ndiri Bhabha' (I am a barber)

Gerald Machona at YOUNGBLACKMAN

A person's hair can form part of one's identity. How we shape, cut and style helps in defining who we are and how other people in society perceive us.

'Ndiri Bhabha' (I am a barber) looks at the occupation that is popularly performed by immigrants. This performance is a part of a larger body of work that attempts to re-imagine migrant workers from the continent in a different light.

Thursday, November 11, 6pm - 9pm

11 November 2010 - 11 November 2010