Michaelis Galleries

19/04/2021

VANSA Take Care Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA)

The Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) has been working for some years on various elements of projects aimed at supporting artists on mental health. Take Care is a research and knowledge development project on mental health in the visual arts. Take Care considers mental health to be a key issue for the professional health of the visual arts and of visual arts practitioners. Take Care also recognises that the demands of working in the arts specifically contribute to the challenges of our overall personal and societal wellbeing. As such, the project is a multi-faceted approach to engaging the sector in discussion about the nature and impacts of living with mental health difficulties. The project works with various partners to better understand mental health in the visual arts (including a large-scale survey led by healthcare professionals), to develop tools and skills for care (including the development of a care toolkit), and open up discussion and awareness for visual arts practitioners and their loved ones (awareness campaign). The project also intends to drive advocacy with government authorities, arts assistance organisations and funders to enable more supportive working environments and practices.

Website: www.vansatake.care
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Enabling open conversation and support on mental health in the visual arts in South Africa. A project by the Visual Arts Network of South Africa.

09/03/2021

The Michaelis School of Fine Art hosts its annual Graduate Exhibition online for the class of 2020 from Thursday 25 March 2021.

The Graduate Exhibition is an essential and exciting part of graduate education and places special emphasis on communicating and celebrating research and creative scholarship at Michaelis. The Graduate Exhibition offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work virtually to the public.
The online showcase features the work of students completing their final year of the Bachelor in Fine Arts Degree as well as Post-graduate diplomas in Fine Art across all the sections of the school, including painting, sculpture, new media, print and photography.

This showcase is a point of departure into a promising creative future for the cohort.

Join the class of 2020 online in a series of planned virtual performances, screenings and discussion.

Website goes live
Thursday March 25, 2021 @ 15h00 (GMT+2)
http://www.michaelis.uct.ac.za/graduate-exhibition


Contact Information:
Nkule Mabaso
Email: [email protected]

22/10/2020

on sight: looking does not mean seeing exhibition review by Nkgopoleng Moloi

Vision, sight, seeing, looking – these seemingly simple words contain how we humans move through the world and experience it. Sight is by no means the most important of the senses and yet our relationship to it influences how we make the world. From architecture, art, science, technology and engin...

09/09/2020

Michaelis Galleries online film & video exhibition presents on sight: looking does not mean seeing
9th September – 9th October 2020
curated by Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose

An exhibition of video artwork and short films featuring Kamyar Bineshtarigh, Ayanda Duma, Talya Galasko, Bonolo Kavula, Lebohang Kganye, Akuol de Mabior, Galerekwe Maimane, Mzonke Maloney, Lauren Mulligan, Jabu Nadia Newman, Natalie Paneng and Kgotlelo Bradley Sekiti.

on sight: looking does not mean seeing engages with the visual & structural complexities of sight. The presented video artworks and short films meditate on the political and cultural conditions of seeing and being seen, as well as reflect on how sight shapes the nuances of our collective and cultural memory. In the essay "Black Feminism: The Politics of Articulation," filmmaker Pratibha Parmar argues that "images play a crucial role in defining and controlling the political and social power to which both individuals and marginalized groups have access. The deeply ideological nature of imagery determines not only how other people think about us but how we think about ourselves.” This compilation interrogates the politics of recognition through a myriad of visual articulations.

Viewer discretion is advised - trigger warning: GBV, sexual violence, strong language, nudity and violence.

To view click on the link
http://www.michaelis.uct.ac.za/sight-looking-does-not-mean-seeing

Poster design by Daniel Rautenbach

17/03/2020

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24/07/2019

17/04/2019

Listening Room reviewed by Keely Shinners for ArtThrob!

The exhibition closes this Thursday 18th April at 16h00.

Twenty-one sets of headphones are strewn about: laid on benches, spotlit on white walls, hooked on the corners of chairs. There’s nothing else in the cramped, windowless room that houses ‘Listening Room,’ a sound art exhibition curated by Nkule Mabaso, Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose and Chloë Reid. I...

09/04/2019

As we near the closing of this exciting exhibition entitled Conversations: an exhibition of work by staff at the Michaelis School of Art on Friday the 12th of April: we wish to invite you to a final walkabout:

Walkabout facilitated by Virginia Mackenny
13h00-14h00
Thursday 11 of April at the
Michaelis Galleries
31-37 Orange Street,
UCT Hiddingh Campus.

Images by Cassandra Jacobs.