Terry Kurgan: Hotel Yeoville | PUBLIC INTIMACY
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South African artist Terry Kurgan creates a participatory public art project inspired by the vast community bulletin boards and internet cafes that serve the Johannesburg suburb of Yeoville.
From the exhibition, Public Intimacy, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in collaboration with SFMOMA: See more about Hotel Yeoville at
About Terry Kurgan:
Terry Kurgan was born in 1958 in Cape Town; she currently lives and works in Johannesburg. Kurgan's interest lies in photography and the nature of all photographic transactions, and she often collaborates with people and communities in her work. She runs an active studio and public sphere practice and has created a diverse body of artwork that explores notions of intimacy, pushing at the boundaries between the private and the public in the South African public cultural domain. She particularly enjoys projects that require a contextual response, such as the ongoing Hotel Yeoville—a collaborative, multi-platform, long-term public art project that has evolved through a series of distinct processes and inter-related products, including an initial research process, a community web project, a digitally interactive exhibition installation, and a book, Hotel Yeoville (2013). Other undertakings have been in spaces as diverse as a maternity hospital, a popular Johannesburg shopping mall, and a prison, often combining design and spatial understanding with a new and exciting way of representing contemporary South African social issues. Inter-related concerns run through works made for different contexts, whether personal projects developed for a gallery/museum, projects made in response to a public space and its associated community, or those realized in relation to the social communications needs of a business or corporate environment. She is an active member of the Joubert Park Project, an energetic artists collective which shares a passion for projects in Johannesburg's inner city.
Kurgan has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including a PUMA Creative Mobility Award (2010), Business and Art South Africa (BASA) awards (2009 and 2007), and the FNB Vita Prize (2000). She has participated in exhibitions around the world, including at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2011); Gallery AOP, Johannesburg (2011); Idensitat 07, Barcelona (2008--9); and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2002, 2002, and 1997). Hotel Yeoville was shortlisted for the 2012 International Award for Excellence in Public Art (IAPA).
About Public Intimacy:
Disrupting expected images of South Africa, the 25 contemporary artists and collectives featured in Public Intimacy eloquently explore the poetics and politics of the everyday. This collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents pictures from SFMOMA's collection of South African photography alongside works in a broad range of media, including video, painting, sculpture, performance, and publications—most made in the last five years, and many on view for the first time on the West Coast. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of democracy in South Africa, Public Intimacy reveals the nuances of human interaction in a country still undergoing significant change, vividly showing public life there in a more complex light.
Public Intimacy includes works by Ian Berry, Ernest Cole, David Goldblatt, Handspring Puppet Company, Nicholas Hlobo, ijusi (Garth Walker), Anton Kannemeyer, William Kentridge, Donna Kukama, Terry Kurgan, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Billy Monk, Zanele Muholi, Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie with Ntsoana Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cameron Platter, Lindeka Qampi, Jo Ractliffe, Athi-Patra Ruga, Berni Searle, Penny Siopis, Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, and Kemang Wa Lehulere.
Public Intimacy also includes a publication and a symposium on visual activism affiliated with the third biennial conference of the International Association for Visual Culture.
Public Intimacy is co-curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Director of Visual Arts at YBCA; Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs at SFMOMA; and Frank Smigiel, Associate Curator of Public Programs at SFMOMA.
Athens Archeological Museum, Part Two
Come visit Buta's blog at Part two of Mick, Steve and Buta's trip to the Archeological Museum in Athens. This one is mainly big dead statues, often of men with their wangers snapped off. On and on with endless footage of stuff in a museum, to music taken from the Rome:Total Realism game mod. There are a couple of great bronze thingers as well.
????Грозный Чечня????Музей Ахмат-Хаджи Кадырова ????Grozny Chechnya????Museum of Akhmat Hadji Kadyrov????
Akhmat Hadji Kadyrov (08/23/1951 - 05/09/2004)
The date of Akhmat Kadyrov's death coincided with the national holiday – victory Day. The head of the Chechen Republic, along with his subordinates, was on the podium of the renovated Dynamo stadium, located in the city of Grozny. After Kadyrov's congratulatory speech on the podium there was an explosion.
As soon as the panic subsided, it became clear that all who were on the podium seriously injured. After the analysis of the blockage Akhmat Kadyrov was taken to the hospital. As it became known later, the man died in the ambulance. The cause of death was injuries sustained during the explosion...
In Chechnya, in the city of Grozny, a Memorial complex of the Walk of Fame was created in order to memorialize historical figures, defenders of the Fatherland, perpetuating the memory of the first President of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia AA Kadyrov, Heroes of the Russian Federation, natives of the Chechen Republic, who sacrificed their lives for the preservation of unity and integrity of the Russian Federation, the perpetuation of memory of Heroes of the Soviet Union, participants of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945, natives of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, the perpetuation of the memory of those natives of the Chechen Republic and took part in all wars waged by Russia for last three centuries, as well as Patriotic, spiritually-moral and aesthetic education of the younger generation on the examples of the lives and activities of historical figures of the Chechen Republic and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR;
Memorial complex of Glory. the first President of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Akhmat-Haji Abdulhamidovich Kadyrov opened on may 8, 2010, on the eve of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war, on the initiative of the Head of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov
The memorial complex of Glory is a two-level building, which is the Central place of the memorial complex with an area of 5 hectares, which also includes a Park and a variety of monuments, including the eternal flame, a tall stele, colonnades and bas-reliefs with images of heroes and military scenes. The Museum has several permanent exhibitions: an exhibition dedicated directly to Akhmat Kadyrov (including household items, clothing and photographs of the first President), an exhibition dedicated to the participation of immigrants of Chechen-Ingushetia in the great Patriotic war, and there is an art gallery. The Museum is famous for its pompous interior decoration: a giant gilded chandelier (weighing one and a half tons, with a coating of gold of the highest standard) from 750 bulbs with an engraved phrase of Akhmat Kadyrov about the triumph of justice, a panel in the Central hall, collected from Spanish marble, stucco, columns in the Moroccan style and other miracles. The Museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.
The memorial complex of Glory named after A. A. Kadyrov among similar cultural objects in its scale ranks third, behind the memorial complexes on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd and on Poklonnaya hill in Moscow.
During the celebrations, the territory of the complex can accommodate up to 15 thousand people.????Грозный Чечня????Музей Ахмат-Хаджи Кадырова ????Grozny Chechnya????Museum of Akhmat Hadji Kadyrov???? by VikNik is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Kate Fowle: The Reflexive Museum. Summer School as School 2018
Kate Fowle at Summer School as School 2018
July 31, 2018, 19:00
Venue: Boxing Club
Summer School as School
July 16 – August 2, 2018
Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is pleased to announce the presentation “The Reflexive Museum” by Kate Fowle, part of Summer School as School 2018 Public Program.
Founded in 2008, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art was one of the new wave of institutions established after the turn of the millennium in (re)emerging art centers around the world. As the first philanthropic venture in Russia to construct a comprehensive mandate for a contemporary art museum, Garage has evolved through responding to the shifting social, political, and cultural context of the country. Now, while 10th anniversary celebrations are underway, attentions are turning to the future. As a contemporary institution the question is what imaginaries will support the advancement of a reflexive museum that can critically contribute to twenty-first-century society?
Kate Fowle is chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and director-at-large at Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York. From 2009-13 she was the executive director of ICI. Previously she was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2007-08) and chair of the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice, which she co-founded in 2002 for California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Before moving to the United States Fowle was co-director of Smith + Fowle in London. From 1994-96 she was curator at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Summer School as School is an interdisciplinary education platform, based in Prishtina.
The 2018 program of Summer School as School included seminars, workshops, lectures, performances, study tours, school film program and exhibitions by artists, writers, and scholars, including: Julieta Aranda, Brigita Antoni, Zdenka Badovinac, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sezgin Boynik, Boris Buden, Mladen Dolar, Linda Gusia, Jakup Ferri, Kate Fowle, Felix Gmelin, Laura J Kurgan, Thomas Keenan, Sami Khatib, Nita Luci, Meriton Maloku, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Sandhya Daemge, Miran Mohar, Remijon Pronja, Danilo Prnjat, Bernhard Rüdiger, Anri Sala, Branimir Stojanović, Milica Tomić, Zorica Zafirovska, Alenka Zupančič and Dardan Zhegrova.
The Public Program organized during Summer School as School 2018 serves as a common platform for faculty, participants, and the public.
Produced by: Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina
Music composition: Liburn Jupolli
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