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South African visual artists have created virtual objects for The Invisible Exhibition. Using Tilt Brush, an app with which they ‘painted’ life-sized 3D artworks, they each made their own work for this joint, free augmented reality exhibition. The artists include Deborah Bell, Mbongeni Fakudze, Stephen Hobbs and Frederick Clarke. There are also several 360-degree films, which are experienced through the Oculus Go Virtual Headset, giving the viewer a 360-degree view. William Kentridge’s Love Songs From The Last Century will certainly be screened; it puts the viewer in a panoramic charcoal landscape, in which sentences, threatening silhouettes and strange objects appear and disappear.
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exposed works
Day Will Break More Than Once
William Kentridge
Dinner Table
Sue Pam-Grant
Ungasabi
Siyabonga Mthembu
Empty Note
Janus Fouché, Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Augmented Reality Artworks
William Kentridge, Typewriter
Marcus Neustetter, The Observatory
Mbongeni Fakudze, Rhythm
Fatima Tayob Moosa, Phases of Connection
Lady Skollie, Watch The Expulsion
Grace Mokalapa, Mysterious Forms - GB698
Io Makandal, The Grit and The Pearl
Cow Mash, Udder Storm
Blessing Ngobeni, Pierced Scars
Anastasia Pather, You're an obstacle, You're not a man
Lost Is Just Another Word For Waiting To Be Found (work in progress)
Philip Miller, Maricel Alvarez
background information
Frascati programme associate artists
For two weeks Frascati theatre will be the home of associate artists William Kentridge and Faustin Linyekula. Alongside performances by themselves and artists who inspire them, there will be a lot of work from their studios.
These presentations show the importance of Kentridges The Centre for the Less Good Idea and Linyekula’s Studios Kabako, and how they function. There will be a unique and exciting programme in which the boundaries between various artforms disappear. Also, we will be organising a series of debates, called The Welcome Table, in which themes from the presentations (that are also topical in the Netherlands) are discussed.
Kentridge and Linyekula use The Centre For The Less Good Idea and Studios Kabako to give both young and more experienced (performing) artists the space, opportunities and inspiration to work on their oeuvre. For Amsterdam they selected work using different criteria: Linyekula is giving two young artists the opportunity to test new work on Dutch audiences as works-in-progress; Kentridge selected presentations from all the seasons thus far been organised at The Centre.
Choose one or more parts of the programme and be surprised by performances that not only add a new perspective to Kentridge and Linyekula’s artistry, but also tell new stories – from intensely political reflections, exceptional childhood memories and attempts to create new myths for a new era.
biography
William Kentridge (South Africa, 1955) is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions. His practice is born out of a cross-fertilisation between mediums and genres.
His work responds to the legacies of colonialism and apartheid, within the context of South Africa's socio-political landscape. His aesthetics are drawn from the medium of film’s own history, from stop-motion animation to early special effects. Kentridge’s drawing, specifically the dynamism of an erased and redrawn mark, is an integral part of his expanded animation and filmmaking practice, in which the meanings of his films are developed during the process of their making. His practice also incorporates his theatre training. Kentridge’s work has been seen in museums and galleries around the world since the 1990s, including Documenta in Kassel, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Musée du Louvre in Paris, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen and the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid.
Opera productions include Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Shostakovich’s The Nose, and Alban Berg’s Lulu, and have been seen at opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera (New York), La Scala (Milan), English National Opera (London), Opera de Lyon, De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam), and others. Summer 2017 saw the premiere of Kentridge’s production of Berg’s Wozzeck for the Salzburg Festival. The 5-channel video and sound installation The Refusal of Time was made for Documenta (13) in 2012; since then it has been seen in cities around the world. More Sweetly Play the Dance, an 8-channel video projection shown first in Eye Amsterdam in April 2015, and Notes Toward a Model Opera, a three-screen projection looking at the Chinese Cultural Revolution, made for an exhibition in Beijing in 2015; both have been presented in many other cities since. Kentridge’s ambitious yet ephemeral public art project for Rome Triumphs & Laments (a 500 m frieze of figure power-washed from pollution and bacterial growth on the walls of the Tiber River) opened in April 2016 with a performance of live music composed by Philip Miller and a procession of shadow figures. William Kentridge featured at the Holland Festival in 2010 with Telegrams from the Nose, in 2012 with Refuse the Hour and in 2014 with Winterreise. In 2015, he staged Alban Berg's Lulu with De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam). Kentridge is one of the Holland Festival’s two associate artists this year.
Credits
- creation
- The Centre for the Less Good Idea, The Mixed Reality Workshop (TMRW)
- curator
- Bronwyn Lace
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- Day Will Break More Than Once
- director
- William Kentridge
- composition, choreography
- Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Kyle Shepherd
- performance
- William Kentridge, Dada Mashilo, Ayanda Nhlangothi, Zandile Hlatshwayo, Sibusiso Shozi, Siphiwe Nkabinde, Gregory Mabusela, Princess Tshabangu, Xolisile Bongwana
- vr editing
- Janus Fouché
- 360 cinematography
- EDEN
- sound
- SoulFire Studios
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- Dinner Table
- concept
- Sue Pam-Grant
- writers
- Sue Pam-Grant, Sylvaine Strike
- director
- Sylvaine Strike
- performers
- Sue Pam-Grant, Jefferson Tshabalala, Gregory Mabusela, Antony Coleman, Siyabonga Mthembu, David Thatanelo April, Thandazile Sonia Radebe, Khutjo Green
- 360 cinematography
- EDEN
- vr editing
- LEFT Post Productions
- sound
- SoulFire Studios
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- Ungasabi
- concept
- Siyabonga Mthembu
- directors
- Nhlanhla Mahlangu,Siyabonga Mthembu
- performance
- Siyabonga Mthembu, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Themba Mkhoma, Thandazile Sonia Radebe, Phumlani Mndebele, Gregory Mabusela, Lulu Mlangeni, Mdu Nhlapo, Simphiwe Bonongo
- 360 cinematography
- EDEN
- vr editing
- LEFT Post Productions
- sound
- SoulFire Studios
- Empty Note
- concept
- Janus Fouché, Nhlanhla Mahlangu
- performance
- Nhlanhla Mahlangu
- music
- Nhlanhla Mahlangu
- additional music
- Don Phallane
- 360 cinematography
- Ambrosia XR
- vr editing
- Janus Fouché
- sound
- SoulFire Studios
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- Lost Is Just Another Word For Waiting To Be Found
work in progress - concept
- Philip Miller, Maricel Alvarez
- performace
- Waldo Alexander, Maricel Alvarez, Xolisile Bongwana, Grace Magubane, Philip Miller, Xolani Sanele Dlamini
- sound
- SoulFire Studios, Liam O Brian
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- Pierced Scars
- sound & poetry
- Gift Makhafula Vilakazi
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- Augmented Reality Artworks
- Typewriter
- William Kentridge
- The Observatory
- Marcus Neustetter
- Rhythm
- Mbongeni Fakudze
- Phases of Connection
- Fatima Tayob Moosa
- Watch The Expulsion
- Lady Skollie
- Mysterious Forms - GB698
- Grace Mokalapa
- The Grit and The Pearl
- Io Makandal
- Udder Storm
- Cow Mash
- Pierced Scars
- Blessing Ngobeni
- You're an obstacle, You're not a man
- Anastasia Pather
- application design and programming
- Brent Robinson
- accompanying augmented music
- season 5 workshop
- performance
- Ayanda Nhlangothi, Zandile Hlatshwayo, Sibusiso Shozi, Siphiwe Nkabinde, Gregory Mabusela, Princess Tshabangu, Xolisile Bongwana, Siyabonga Mthembu, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Simphiwe Bonongo
- sound
- SoulFire Studios