Sunday, July 31, 2011
CONVOCATION HOUSE/SLICA:AUGUST-NOVEMBER 2011
The Sober & Lonely Institute of Contemporary Art (SLICA) is pleased to announce a new project entitled Oh My Oh My: from the annals of a great telepathic affair, that will be housed at Convocation House, Johannesburg from 1 August to 25 November 2011.
Since 2008 Sober & Lonely have been experimenting with telepathic connections through long distance thought transferral and close-range movement synergy related to the idea of 'telepathy'. The overarching title of this project Oh My Oh My: from the annals of a great telepathic affair, comes, in part, from Kurt Vonnegut's novelBreakfast of Champions where he explores the release of precognitive and recognitive thought through 'telepathic butterflies'.
18 artists have been invited to propose work specifically for this project that will form part of a four month dialogue and experiment around notions of thought transferral, serendipity and telepathy. In order to create as concise a dialogue as possible, the artists were given a brief with a return slip to fill in and a R100 production budget to work with. A new work will be installed in Convocation House every Friday over the four month period.
For further details and scheduling please refer to our website:http://www.soberandlonely.org/
Participating artists:
Sober & Lonely | James Webb | Jim Skuldt | Noor Nuyten | Greg Streak | Vaughn Sadie | Audrey Cottin | Dave Sherry | Pierre Bismuth | Robyn Nesbitt & Nina Barnett | Anne Schiffer | Niklaus Rüegg | Liza Corsillo | Simon Gush & Ruth Sacks | Liezel Prins | Bronwyn Lace & Marcus Neustetter | Emi Kodama | Sarah Gerats
Since 2008 Sober & Lonely have been experimenting with telepathic connections through long distance thought transferral and close-range movement synergy related to the idea of 'telepathy'. The overarching title of this project Oh My Oh My: from the annals of a great telepathic affair, comes, in part, from Kurt Vonnegut's novelBreakfast of Champions where he explores the release of precognitive and recognitive thought through 'telepathic butterflies'.
18 artists have been invited to propose work specifically for this project that will form part of a four month dialogue and experiment around notions of thought transferral, serendipity and telepathy. In order to create as concise a dialogue as possible, the artists were given a brief with a return slip to fill in and a R100 production budget to work with. A new work will be installed in Convocation House every Friday over the four month period.
For further details and scheduling please refer to our website:http://www.soberandlonely.org/
Participating artists:
Sober & Lonely | James Webb | Jim Skuldt | Noor Nuyten | Greg Streak | Vaughn Sadie | Audrey Cottin | Dave Sherry | Pierre Bismuth | Robyn Nesbitt & Nina Barnett | Anne Schiffer | Niklaus Rüegg | Liza Corsillo | Simon Gush & Ruth Sacks | Liezel Prins | Bronwyn Lace & Marcus Neustetter | Emi Kodama | Sarah Gerats
Sunday, October 31, 2010
CONVOCATION HOUSE
Convocation House is a street level, Window display space on Jorissen Street. The space is attached to Arthouse, the Wits Fine Art studio building. It was started and is run by Wits Fine Art Students in agreement with the School. The windows serve as the only physical public interface between the Wits School of Art and Braamfontein. This blog is the archive for the space, entries are composed by the artists themselves.
Students and Staff of the Wits School of Art are invited to propose for the use of the space at:
All proposals are accepted, under the terms and conditions (see below).
Proposals
Proposals must include a detailed description and plan of what will happen in the space, as well as preferred dates and a time frame for the activity. As far as possible, requested dates will be accommodated.
After admittance of the proposal; a meeting with the organizers will be arranged.
After admittance of the proposal; a meeting with the organizers will be arranged.
Terms and conditions
1.1 Proposals must comply with the law and safety regulations
1.2. Proposals must also comply with WSOA and Leonard Russel (in whose workshop the space is situated)
2.1. Artists must provide a text in advance of the work to be posted on the blog and Facebook page, under the artist's name
2.2. The artist will select documentation (text, photographs, video etc) to be posted on blog within a day of setting up. Artists are
encouraged to make and respond to comments on the blog
encouraged to make and respond to comments on the blog
3.1 Artists are to leave the space in the condition that it was found
4.1. Artists may occupy the space between 8 am and 4 pm weekdays, only
4.2. Projects may not occupy the space for more than two weeks
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