One Million and Forty Four Years (and Sixty Three Days) A Sampler
Item date(s): 2007
Kathryn Smith
- (edited with an introduction by) Douglas Gimberg
- (featured artist) Christian Nerf
- (featured artist) Ruth Sacks
- (featured artist) Ed Young
- (featured artist)
Pages: 293pp Size: 178mm Inscription: Signed by two participants. Edition: #33/50
Place publication: Stellenbosch, RSA Publisher: SMAC Art Gallery ISBN: 978-0-620-38259-5
Additional notes: A companion to the exhibition by Douglas Gimberg, Christian Nerf, Ruth Sacks and Ed young, this book publishes responses to the above question received over a four-week period in 2007.
Supported by the University of Stellenbosch, Department of Visual Arts.
500 standard softcover copies and 50 numbered, hardcover editions.
Ref: SA/1140
Articles
Email Correspondence Robert Storr (essay by) p16
Spontaneous Human Combustion 1 Gustavo Artigas (essay by) p20
Email Correspondence Barend de Wet (essay by) p24
This is the work of idle hands, or you can't say anthing original about the avant-garde Bettina Malcomess (essay by) p26
Histories of Avant-Gardism in South Africa Colin Richards (essay by) p40
Does the Avant Garde Exist??? Wayne Cahill Barker (essay by) p60
Shy have there been no avant-garde African artists? Candice Breitz (essay by) p64
Comrades At Arms: The African Avant-Garde at the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Dakar 1966) Sylvester Ogbechie (essay by) p88
Contingent States & Postscript: Is This Music? Sean O'Toole (essay by) p104
Avant-Garde for Beginners Trasi Henen (essay by) p112
Retrospectives Siemon Allen (essay by) p114
When Does a Moment End? James Sey (essay by) p118
Two Chinese Guys Ed Young (essay by) Kathryn Smith (essay by) p124
I Terrorealist Kendell Geers (essay by) p130
Rule No. One Christian Nerf (essay by) p154
The Power of the Clone: Product Piracy as Avant-Garde Practice Michael Smith (essay by) p156
Four Works Avant Car Guard (essay by) p162
Considering the Act of Terror: The Dilemma of the Avant-Garde Brenden Gray (essay by) p166
Barriga de Dragao Rafael Mouzinho (essay by) p174
The Avant-Garde is Dead. Long Live the Avant-Garde! Lize van Robbroeck (essay by) p180
'' Is the Avant-Garde Still a Viable and or Tenable Notion in the Current Contemporary Moment. . .?" Thando Mama (essay by) p188