kagablog

Hi All,

This is a event that you shouldn’t miss! As part of the exhibition of 40Years of Video Art which is currently on at the Goethe-Institute, Johannesburg -

There will be a panel discussion on VideoArt in South Africa on Tuesday 12 February at 18:30. The speakers are:
Minnette Vari – South African and International Video Artist
Warren Siebrits - Joburg avant garde gallery owner
Churchill Madika – South African and International Video Artist
Clive Kelner – Director of Johannesburg Art Gallery
Oliver Sann/Beate Geissler - Guest German Video Artists

The panel will be chaired by Prof Christo Doherty and will feature a group of top artists and curators to talk about the topic. This discussion will be followed by drinks/snacks and an after party
featuring really exciting DJ and VJ talent. See below for visuals and more information.

The Goethe Institute has secure parking and is easily accessible off Jan Smuts Avenue, in Parkwood.

Hope to see you there!

photo christo doherty

trisha brown

andreas siekmann

here are a bunch of photos from the last days of documenta 12 in
kassel, germany. launched in 1955, the exhibition was intended to
“reconcile a demoralised German civil society with Modern Art”. since
then it’s been staged every 5 years, and has become one of the most
important exhibitions in contemporary art.

hi aryan,

a really evocative film. thanks.
driving away afterwards, i felt the city had been changed . . . that’s
always the effect of powerful art. those hellish panelled rooms lit
up in buildings all across johannesburg; the bitter scenes going on in
cars and hotel lobbies; and a whore’s beauty the only treacherous
relief . . .
as you know, i’ve been long intrigued by the idea of this cellphone
feature. i expected the abstraction in the visuals, although the noise
had more interesting variations than i imagined, not just pixelating
but blossoming and throbbing underneath the narrative. but what i
didn’t anticipate was the intimacy of the cell phone movie. an
intimacy that was intensified by blowing the image up to big screen
proportions. it really knocked me out. and worked so well with the
eroticism of the performances and the tragic pathos of the story. by
the time that the father has discovered the truth about his paternity
- he’s already dead.

best
christo

Just to let you know that my exhibition opens tonight at the
Schaufenster Gallery in Potsdam. It’s an installation using 150 of my
photographs with sound design by Lukas Ligeti.

with professor christo doherty, noodle bar opposite john vorster square

POW Ensemble at the Unyazi festival. The first festival for electronic music in Africa. Johannesburg September 2005

This is a collage of two pieces, made by Kaganof.

Line up:

Luc Houtkamp, Matthew Ostrowski (computers), Burkhard Stangl (guitar), Marc Duby (bass), students from Wits Jazz department

Director: Aryan Kaganof (edited because of youtubes 10 minutes maximum)