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ARAC Will Convene for its 3rd Colloquium in Maseru (7-13 January 2017)

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:00:51 +0000

Africa Cluster Colloquium 2 (April 2017) Public Programme

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:14:40 +0000

The Another Roadmap Africa Cluster held their Second Colloquium from 3-7 April, 2017. We reserved the Thursday and part of the Friday for public events hosted at the Wits University School of Arts and School of Education.

Highlights

Thursday 6 April, 8-11am, Public timeline making event at Wits School of Education

ARAC members were invited to create a timeline that was juxtaposed with the history of visual arts in South Africa and the world at large. In this exercise, people added dates that held significance to them personally or in their work in order to demonstrate how history intertwines and mark one's place as part of history.

Lunch:13.15 – 4pm, Wits School of Arts (The Point Of Order)

Members introduced themselves and shared their research and experiences with the public. The timeline created earlier in the day was rolled out on the floor as part of the conversation and a symbolic representation of what brought the different working groups together. The gathering included an interactive writing exercise as well as music session to help bring working groups and audience members closer together.

Friday 7 April

1.15 – 4pm, Semi-Public: The Point of Order
Wits School of Arts Fine Arts ‘Drawing & Contemporary Practice’ III: 3rd year student made presentations on Medu Art Ensemble Newsletters in groups. The activity was followed by casual discussions between working groups and students about archiving, recovering and disseminating knowledge.

Evening: 6pm onwards, public
The cluster hosted a reception and dance party to wrap up the weeklong discussion, presentations and deliberations. Every member was invited to play a DJ set as part of the mutual exchange and connectivity of the group. The event offered everyone the chance to recap on an intense yet fruitful week while brainstorming ideas for the way forward.

Africa Cluster welcomes Tracy Murinik as Invited Expert for Colloquium 2 (April 2017)

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:19:52 +0000

Tracy Murinik is an independent art writer, commentator, educator and curator based in Johannesburg. She writes, curates and teaches on art from South Africa and the continent, and is currently focused on realising an ongoing photographic archive project, A R C H I V E: African Repository for the Collation of Historical, Interpretive Visual Explorations. She is also an occasional filmmaker.

She has been a post-graduate lecturer and external examiner in the Fine Art, History of Art and Curatorial Studies Departments in the Wits School of Arts; and a guest lecturer and external examiner to the History of Art and Fine Art departments of the University of Cape Town. She is actively involved in challenging and reshaping the nature of how art theory and art practice are taught in relation to one another – through writing seminars that she runs at
Wits School of Art; through her own practice as a writer and archivist/researcher/curator; and previously in her role as Research and Projects Director at the University of Johannesburg- based Research Centre for Visual Identities in Art and Design.

TRacy's publications include WIDE ANGLE: Photography as Participatory Practice (2014), http://fourthwallbooks.com/product/wide-angle/], co-edited with Terry Kurgan; Constructure: 100 Years of the JAG Building and its Evolution of Space and Meaning (2015) [digital version at https://issuu.com/designinformation/docs/constructure_-_100_years_of_the_jag] , Minnette Vári’s Of Darkness and of Light (2016); contributor
to Phaidon’s Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes, Kari Rittenbach (ed) (2013); 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, (ed. Sophie Perryer) (2004); Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art (Museum for African Art, New York and Spier, Cape Town) (2004). Her films comprise a series of thirteen award-winning documentaries – A Country Imagined –which explore the representation of South African landscape by artists, writers, musicians and dancers.