Budding artists encouraged to show their talents during virtual 2021 National Arts Festival By Simtembile Mgidi - 29 January 2021
As the 47th National Arts Festival draws near, former performers at the event have dubbed it a big boost to kick-starting a career and have encouraged aspiring artists to throw in their hat by participating in the 2021 National Arts Festival Fringe.
This article is free to read if you register or sign in. If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.
Simtembile-mgidi
National-arts-festival-fringe
National-arts-festival
Arts-festival-fringe
Comment-policy
தேசிய-கலைகள்-திருவிழா-விளிம்பு
தேசிய-கலைகள்-திருவிழா
கலைகள்-திருவிழா-விளிம்பு
கருத்து-பாலிஸீ
‘It’s a crazy thing to be doing,’ says Mikhael Subotzky. The artist’s recent shift into painting seems to baffle him as much now, as he speaks to me over Zoom from a hotel in Cape Town, as it did when I met him in his Johannesburg studio in September 2019, where he showed me some of the
White on White canvases included in his first display of paintings, ‘Massive Nerve Corpus’, at Goodman Gallery’s Johannesburg branch earlier that year. These large-scale semi-abstract canvases, layered with strips of medical tape, are certainly a far cry from the documentary photographs with which the artist made his name in the 2000s; Subotzky himself wrote derisively in 2019 of ‘privileged white men […] with their oversized paintings and well-worked mythologies’. But it’s perhaps precisely for this reason that he followed the ‘crazy’ impulse to paint. Over the course of the past 15 years Subotzky has developed from an acute observer of societal injustice in South Africa i
Cape-town
Western-cape
South-africa
Constantia
Free-state
Grahamstown
Eastern-cape
Johannesburg
Gauteng
Netherlands
Dutch
Mikhael-subotzky-johnny
1. Jetsam
It’s as if the reeds remember they were once chains
And the water, restless, wishes it could spew all of the slaves and ships
onto shore
Their tears are what have turned the ocean salty
This is why our irises burn every time we go under
Every December 16th, December 24th and December 31st
Our skin retraumatises the sea
They mock us
instrumental in trying to execute our extinction
For you, the ocean is for surf boards, boats, tans
And all the funky stuff you do under there in your bathing suits and
goggles
– Extract from Water, by Koleka Putuma
Grahamstown
Eastern-cape
South-africa
James-stinson
Atlantic-ocean
Ewok-robinson
Koleka-putuma
Gerald-donald-afrofuturist
National-arts-festival
Facebook
Gerald-donald
Black-atlantis
Makhanda, Eastern Cape. Photo: Mzwamadoda Makalima My Great Big Makhanda Holiday
December 10, 2020NEWS
There’s plenty to do and see in and around our town this Festive Season. Here, Makana Tourism’s Prudence Mini
walks you through some of the options.
Check out astronomical sights
The
Astronomical Toposcope on Gunfire Hill in front of the 1820 Settlers’ National Monument shows the cardinal points and positions for the rising of certain constellations.
The Monument also offers a great view of the City right through to Makana’s Kop in the heart of the township.
For more information, contact the Monument on 046 603 1134.
You can also experience the topmost turret of the
Grahamstown
Eastern-cape
South-africa
Drostdy
Western-cape
Bathurst
Banjul
Gambia
Willenhall
Walsall
United-kingdom
Bucklands
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.