SPace

Museum Africa‎
121 Bree Street
Johannesburg 2001
South Africa
011 833 5624‎

SPace – Currencies in Contemporary African Art

Berni Searle
Avant Car Guard
Godfried Donkor
Barthelemy Togue
Willem Boshoff
Kudzanai Chiurai
Collectif 212

"The concept SPace embodies two notions, space and pace, which signify sites/contexts and tempos/energies that are part of societal make up. Space is wherein ideas are negotiated and meaning produced through various human activities and social practices, while pace is speed, the rate at which change or advancement of such activities and practices take place in society."

Statement by Thembinkosi Goniwe and Melissa Mboweni, Curators

Through July 11 - the final day of the first World Cup to be held in Africa.

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Graphic from Museum website. Caption: "Berni Searle. 'Water's Edge II.' From the series 'Black Smoke Rising.' Archival pigment ink on photographic paper. 2008."]

The Bag Factory | Border Farm

The Bag Factory
10 Mahlatini Street · Fordsburg
Johannesburg · 2001

mailing address: PO Box 794 · Newtown ·
Johannesburg · 2113
South Africa

+27 11 834 9181

Border Farm

"...an exhibition conceptualized by Thenjiwe Nkosi, featuring videos and writing by migrant farm works on the South African/Zimbabwe national border The show features works by Nkosi, Raymond Marlowe and the Maroi Farm Art and Drama Group.

Nkosi has been participating in a group project called Living In-Between, based in Musina, in Limpopo Province – the last town before the Zimbabwean border. Due to its ongoing history as a mining town surrounded by several productive farms, Musina’s population is largely comprised of migrants. The community of Maroi farm is made up of both Zimbabwean and South African farm workers.

Through a series of workshops held by Nkosi and Marlowe, along with Tapiwa Marovatsanga, Michelle Harris and Daniel Browde, a group of farm workers from Maroi Farm have been taking photographs, filming and writing about their experiences. Through their experiences one sees a confluence of contemporary issues and questions about national borders and their impact on individuals and communities – particularly communities under pressure. The idea of belonging is central to how self and group identities operate in situations of dislocation."

Through May 5.

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Text and graphic from Factory website.]