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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.
Forgetting Ntaba ka Ndoda explores notions of place, memory and memorialisation at the Ntaba ka Ndoda Monument. Performing for and with the camera, Thando produces a series of multi-layered photographs that respond to the urgency that is Ntaba kaNdoda’s memory. Forgetting Ntaba ka Ndoda seeks to translate for the viewers his own experience of the Monument, reframe and reconfigure it as a multiplex place of memory, exploring the knots of memory that continue to enrich the meta-narrative of its history.
Forgetting Ntaba ka Ndoda not only represent his own performative commemoration and self-reflective exploration on the Monument, but also affirm the memories he holds of Ntaba ka Ndoda.
Thando Mama acquired an MFA from Rhodes University with the SARChI Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa research initiative. His research is on memory, focusing on the ways in which memory is fluid, multilayered, and both collective and individual, as well as the relationship between photography and memory, particularly looking at memorialisation at Ntaba ka Ndoda Monument at Kieskammahoek in the Eastern Cape.
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 - 17:00 to Thu, 16 May 2019 - 16:00
Michaelis Galleries presents Asymmetries, an exhibition by Nduka Mntambo. Asymmetries is a multi-channel installation consisting of images projected onto mobile sculptures designed in the motif of the icosahedron suspended on beams. The mobile screens offer various registers of contemporary urban beings and their objects.
Asymmetries demands a different conception of the relationship between the screen, image and the viewer. The assemblage of images that are offered from the various cities demands framing; reframing;deframing that defies a totalizing whole. Instead, the experience evokes tentative,
fragmentary and constantly moving-evolving ideas that at times move together, move against each other and on occasion allow for coalescence.
Nduka Mntambo is an image-maker working/playing in the interstices of urban spatial practices, experimental filmmaking and pedagogy. He is a PhD candidate and the Head of the Film and Television programme at the Wits School of Arts (WSOA).
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 - 17:00 to Thu, 16 May 2019 - 16:00
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