'The Video Party'
Various Artists at Goethe Institut'The Video Party' series of events has taken place since May 2013. For this project, theCUSS group installed video works in shops and public spaces around Johannesburg in an attempt to re-think the exclusionary nature of conventional art spaces. In doing so, the project also considers commerce and mass-appeal aesthetics in relation to art practice.
In August, the group will inhabit the Goethe-Institut gallery space which will be used as studio and installation space, bringing the work thus far back into a conventional art space to re-interrogate notions of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. The films themselves are low-fi and feature much formal distortion. This disruption to the natural flow of the films is purposeful and undermines the imagery and sound to create a raw and gritty aesthetic.
CUSS members Jamal Nxedlana, Ravi Govender, Zamani Xolo, Lex Trickett and Bogosi Sekhukuni are artists living and working in Johannesburg. Since CUSS inception in February 2011 the group has published four online magazines, a video magazine, a print magazine and a trailer for a documentary and a number of webisodes focused on contemporary arts and culture in South Africa.
29 August - 28 September
