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Phetoho(?)

Item date(s): 2013

Kerri Liebovitz - (collaborative member)
Katleho Habi - (collaborative member)
Kamogelo Sebopa - (collaborative member)
Bradley Cloete - (collaborative member)
Mphoentle Mabusela - (collaborative member)

Medium: RISOgraph printing on various papers
Pages: unpaged
Size: 204mm
Language: English

Type: Zine
Sub-type: Zine

Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: Phetoho Collective

Additional notes:
ON COLLECTIVITIES AND EDITORIAL FRAMEWORKS

• How effectively and in what ways do the collective publication articulate the editorial framework?

• Building from the above question, how coherent is the collective voice?

• How effectively did the collective engage the Medu Art Ensemble?

• In relation to Medu, how does the collective engage the prompts: (What changed? What shifted?

What remains the same? What now?)

• Does the publication/online platform indicate an engaged and deep commitment to unpack, edit,

expand and deepen each content in relation to the editorial

frameworks/provocations/manifestos/questions/positions/speculations…?

ON FORM & MAKING

• How did the collective publication push the limits of RISOgraph printmaking?

• Does the publication as it stands demonstrate a sound understanding of the limits and possibilities of RISOgraph printmaking?

• To what extent do the form - including ‘binding/assembly/presentation’

match/complement/complicate the content and the editorial

frameworks/provocations/manifestos/questions/positions/speculations…?

Reference note:
Ephemeral collectives as part of the course Drawing & Contemporary Practice III (3rd year) in

the collective/self-publishing and book arts course theme responding to the prompt Medu Art

Ensemble Newsletters and Posters in a Time of…

2023 Academic year, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits School of Arts, Department of Fine

Art, Johannesburg, South Africa

Course Coordinator: Rangoato Hlasane

Lecturers, Rangoato Hlasane, Tracey Rose and Francis Burger

The Drawing and Contemporary Practice III course is premised on the place and role of collective

publishing by artists as a principle that introduces students to art collectivities. Key outcomes important to the success of the course is for each collective to introduce and map their editorial

frameworks/provocations/manifestos/questions/positions/speculations…through their publications.

Intersecting the notion of letter writing as a technology of the past, present and future through the lens of the Medu Art Ensemble Newsletters and Posters, the year 2023 in the Drawing and Contemporary Practice III challenges students to deepen their editorial collectives centred around the mastery of publishing with the RISOgraph SF5030 to create beautiful, brave, inspiring and unique publications.

Including a single page folded zine with the same title and authors.

Exhibition notes:
lo-fi street cred: artists’ zines, DIY and alternative publications

4 June – 30 August 2024

JGCBA

Keywords: South African, student publication, risograph

Ref: GB/31702