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19/4/2013
Sweet Sixties: Stories and Morals
Anna Artaker, Josef Dabernig, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, David Maljković, Emeka Ogboh, Uriel Orlow
curators: Georg Schöllhammer and What,How and for Whom / WHW
Galerija Nova, Teslina 7, Zagreb
The exhibition Sweet Sixties: Stories and Morals is part of a long-term project which explores the heritage of 1960s parallel modernisms in relation to their current geopolitical, economic and cultural implications and potential, with an emphasis on post-socialist, Middle Eastern and African contexts. By evoking several forgotten or lesser known episodes from the 1960s, the exhibition accentuates the ambivalent and mythological character of a decade marked by radical and revolutionary demands such as, for instance, the processes of decolonisation in Afro-Asian territories, student protests, human rights’ struggles or antiwar movements. Even though the assimilation of the struggle of the late 1960s and 1970s is today, according to Brian Holmes, “caught in the distorting mirror of a new hegemony”, the question is how to articulate fragmented demands and revitalise them in the context of recent battles for social justice.
The works in the exhibition confront events removed from their strict historical order, creating new combinations against a background of the cultural memory of place, history and artistic representation (Josef Dabernig, Anna Artaker), or evoking the forgotten episodes of history which also speaks about the wider context of the decade. David Maljković’s work recalls the heritage and status of Yugoslavian modernism pointing towards the wider post-communist state and parallels between social and artistic experiments. His spatial intervention in the Showroom of Gallery Nova will remain in the gallery after this exhibition as a permanent archival and work space. The declaration of Nigerian independence in the work of Emeka Ogboh highlights not only the processes of decolonisation in Africa in the 1960s, but also the forms of contemporary colonisation and the ambivalent role of national identity. In the work of Joane Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Middle Eastern space exploration and the creation of rockets are inscribed into the context of Pan-Arabism and its breakdown. Dealing with a less well-known episode in which international cargo ships were trapped in the Suez Canal following the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt in 1967, Uriel Orlow opens up the question of the long-term consequences of this incident.
The works avoid a nostalgic attachment to history, thus bringing to life the very ways, possibilities or limits of artistic presentation as a visual way of thinking, and evoking art not only as an empire of images, words and sounds, closed within itself, but also as an active place of explanation and mobilisation via images - part of the revolutionary demands of both history and the present.
WHERE?
Galerija Nova
Teslina 7
10000 Zagreb
WHEN?
April 12 - May 18, 2013
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Verbal Mapping II: Emeka Ogboh
The 6th ‘Infecting The City’ Public Arts Festival will be placing over 60 artworks and performances in unexpected spaces in the middle of the City that challenge Cape Town’s ideas of art and public space.
Artist Emeka Ogboh’s ‘Verbal maps’ are calls made by Lagos bus conductors, melodically shouting out their bus routes to potential passengers or notifying passengers of the next stop. The noisy bus conductor is an icon of the Lagos sonic map, a lyrical wordsmith dishing out Lagos bus routes like freestyle rap. These organic sound marks come together as a chart composed of audio spins to form the verbal maps. The documentation of Lagos sounds over time has produced a corpus of work entitled ‘Lagos Soundscapes’, which has been installed in the public space of Cologne, Helsinki and Manchester.
‘Verbal mapping II’ is a set of sound installations around Cape Town’s CBD. Each installation represents a Lagos bus conductor and informs people passing nearby of Lagos bus route creating an interactive performance between Lagos and Cape Town.
Verbal Mapping II-Venue: Adderley St
Date: Thurs 14th March | Sat 16th March
Time: Thurs 2.45pm | Sat 12.45pm
Duration: Various times
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19/4/2013
Sweet Sixties: Stories and Morals
Anna Artaker, Josef Dabernig, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, David Maljković, Emeka Ogboh, Uriel Orlow
curators: Georg Schöllhammer and What,How and for Whom / WHW
Galerija Nova, Teslina 7, Zagreb
The exhibition Sweet Sixties: Stories and Morals is part of a long-term project which explores the heritage of 1960s parallel modernisms in relation to their current geopolitical, economic and cultural implications and potential, with an emphasis on post-socialist, Middle Eastern and African contexts. By evoking several forgotten or lesser known episodes from the 1960s, the exhibition accentuates the ambivalent and mythological character of a decade marked by radical and revolutionary demands such as, for instance, the processes of decolonisation in Afro-Asian territories, student protests, human rights’ struggles or antiwar movements. Even though the assimilation of the struggle of the late 1960s and 1970s is today, according to Brian Holmes, “caught in the distorting mirror of a new hegemony”, the question is how to articulate fragmented demands and revitalise them in the context of recent battles for social justice.
The works in the exhibition confront events removed from their strict historical order, creating new combinations against a background of the cultural memory of place, history and artistic representation (Josef Dabernig, Anna Artaker), or evoking the forgotten episodes of history which also speaks about the wider context of the decade. David Maljković’s work recalls the heritage and status of Yugoslavian modernism pointing towards the wider post-communist state and parallels between social and artistic experiments. His spatial intervention in the Showroom of Gallery Nova will remain in the gallery after this exhibition as a permanent archival and work space. The declaration of Nigerian independence in the work of Emeka Ogboh highlights not only the processes of decolonisation in Africa in the 1960s, but also the forms of contemporary colonisation and the ambivalent role of national identity. In the work of Joane Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Middle Eastern space exploration and the creation of rockets are inscribed into the context of Pan-Arabism and its breakdown. Dealing with a less well-known episode in which international cargo ships were trapped in the Suez Canal following the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt in 1967, Uriel Orlow opens up the question of the long-term consequences of this incident.
The works avoid a nostalgic attachment to history, thus bringing to life the very ways, possibilities or limits of artistic presentation as a visual way of thinking, and evoking art not only as an empire of images, words and sounds, closed within itself, but also as an active place of explanation and mobilisation via images - part of the revolutionary demands of both history and the present.
WHERE?
Galerija Nova
Teslina 7
10000 Zagreb
WHEN?
April 12 - May 18, 2013
Read more
Verbal Mapping II: Emeka Ogboh
The 6th ‘Infecting The City’ Public Arts Festival will be placing over 60 artworks and performances in unexpected spaces in the middle of the City that challenge Cape Town’s ideas of art and public space.
Artist Emeka Ogboh’s ‘Verbal maps’ are calls made by Lagos bus conductors, melodically shouting out their bus routes to potential passengers or notifying passengers of the next stop. The noisy bus conductor is an icon of the Lagos sonic map, a lyrical wordsmith dishing out Lagos bus routes like freestyle rap. These organic sound marks come together as a chart composed of audio spins to form the verbal maps. The documentation of Lagos sounds over time has produced a corpus of work entitled ‘Lagos Soundscapes’, which has been installed in the public space of Cologne, Helsinki and Manchester.
‘Verbal mapping II’ is a set of sound installations around Cape Town’s CBD. Each installation represents a Lagos bus conductor and informs people passing nearby of Lagos bus route creating an interactive performance between Lagos and Cape Town.
Verbal Mapping II-Venue: Adderley St
Date: Thurs 14th March | Sat 16th March
Time: Thurs 2.45pm | Sat 12.45pm
Duration: Various times
Read more
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