Visible at CHR
dal 17/5/2012 al 17/5/2012
Segnalato da
17/5/2012
Visible at CHR
Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg
A talk around the Visible platform will take place as well as a roundtable involving a group of South African artists and collectives, some of whom are already part of the visible network. Curated by Matteo Lucchetti.
The visible project, initiated and supported by Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation and
Fondazione Zegna, is pleased to announce the presentation at the CHR – Center for Historical
Reenactments in Johannesburg. On the 18th of May, starting at 6:30 pm, a talk around the visible
platform will take place as well as a roundtable involving a group of South African artists and
collectives, some of whom are already part of the visible network. The event, curated by Matteo
Lucchetti, co-curator of the visible project, and Gabi Ngcobo, member of the curatorial advisory
board, aims to present the project to the local audience engaging in a conversation around some
of the common issues and topics for art practicioners that operate in a constant dialogue with the
social sphere.
The list of invited artists includes Dala, Gugulective, Donna Kukama, Made You Look, NON NON
Collective, Mlu Zondi.
visible is a long term research project that brings to light and gives strength to artistic actions
which have a real capacity to experiment and produce visions that can have an impact on the
social and cultural imagination of our contemporary world.
visible analyses particular cultural and geographical contexts, clearly expressing their different
forms of perception. It points to struggles in social power as a fundamental indicator for the
development of society and it sets in motion discussions about the art system, institutional
mechanisms, and the complexity of relationships between power systems. The actions and
approaches of visible work on the consciousness of the present and of possible changes in
contemporary society.
The visible platform is based on an idea put forward by Michelangelo Pistoletto and is now
focused on the visible award, an international production award of 25000 euros devoted to art
work in the social sphere. In January 2012, Helena Producciones, a Cali based Colombian
collective, became the recipient of the first visible award. This award is the second public step in a
broader research project in contemporary art practices in the social sphere, curated by Matteo
Lucchetti and Judith Wielander. In 2010, it has been published a book by Sternberg Press on the
visible research, about a reconnaissance tour of forty-one international artistic positions involved
in building or rebuilding the imagination of the present.
The Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR) is a Johannesburg based independent alternative
platform employing citations, transversal research processes, subversion and mediation. Since its
conception in 2010, CHR has conceptualized projects that create dialogues between artistic
practices in order to reveal how within their constellations certain histories are formed or
formulated, repeated, universalized and preserved. These are strategies that reveal how art and
curatorial gestures could perform transformative effects in political spaces that may not yet be
recognized as sites of struggle and may thus be allowed to enter a refreshed political sensibility.
To get to know more about visible, download the publication or follow the updates on the project,
please visit the website and blog.
www.visibleproject.org
www.facebook.com/visibleproject
Send your inquiries to:
visibleaward11@gmail.com
Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg
32 August House, 76-82 End Street, 2028
Wednesday 18th of May
6:00 for 6:30pm onwards