UCT Hiddingh Campus
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Gardens
Cape Town
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Michaelis Galleries host a wide range of temporary exhibitions and collaborations with alumni and local and international visual arts organisations bring noteworthy art shows to these venues.
The galleries are a unique opportunity for staff and students of the university to exhibit their artworks or curated exhibitions in a non-commercial, experimental space. The galleries also form an invaluable teaching resource, allowing students to learn and hone curatorial and exhibition design and management skills.
Vital Signs is a group exhibition showcasing work by Michaelis School of Fine Art teaching staff with a thematic focus on ecologies, climate crisis and sustainability entitled Vital Signs. The show will be curated by Associate Professors Fritha Langerman and Svea Josephy.
In the context of the planetary crisis: rapid climate change, the possibility of mass extinction and environmental apocalypse, water scarcity, reduction of habitat, conservation failures and mismanagement, the detrimental impact of humanity on the environment and the unfair distribution of "resources”, Vital Signs raises awareness and presents an ecocritical mode of curating.
This exhibition aims to not only show staff work but also to shine a light on teaching and other practices on this campus which work with notions of sustainability, care and restorative interventions including the Pavilion Prototype 2 and the Sustainable Photographic Garden.
The exhibition is open weekdays at the Michaelis Galleries, Hiddingh Campus, 10:00-15:00. Closed on weekends and public holidays.
The exhibition is on display from 17 September to 17 October 2024.
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