Published 22 August 2022 in News
South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH)
'Prisoners of Stone' Virtual Exhibition featuring work by Bernard Brand & Adriaan Diedericks
SAVAH conference, DUT Arts Research Kaleidoscope 2022 and DigiFest'09
Durban University of Technology, City Campus, Smith Street, Greyville, Berea, 4023, Eastern Cape, South Africa
19 - 23 September 2022
This year's theme: 'Romancing the Stone: Contemplating Evolving Trends and Impermeable Places in Arts and Design'.
The relationship between human beings and stone as a medium, metaphor and artefact has a significant and contested history within the arts. Zimbabwean sculptor Lazarus Takawira notes ‘you look for a stone, and find a story to etch onto the stone…
After you are done working on a stone, it will begin talking to you, whispering at you.’ But we also use the word in metaphors to signify impermeable ideas and hardened frameworks. We describe ideas and ideologies as set in stone when we feel that they cannot be changed or shifted. However, as Monet observed in relation to the shifting light on the Rouen Cathedral, ‘Everything changes, even stone.’ Critical theorist Homi Bhabha also reminds us that nothing, least of all culture, is changeless. On this premise of change and chance, the 2022 Arts Research Kaleidoscope – a history-subverting, paradigm-contesting, kaleidoscopic spaceship – invites postgraduate students, researchers and creative practitioners from different disciplines to present and explore various apparently stratified frameworks in their fields from a multidisciplinary perspective.
ESCAP3 Gallery has been accepted to present 'Prisoners of Stone', a virtual exhibition featuring work by Bernard Brand & Adriaan Diedericks.
For more information on the SAVAH conference or the DUT Arts Research Kaleidoscope 2022 and DigiFest'09, please navigate to the SAVAH website here
To view all the Virtual Exhibitions please navigate to the DUT Arts Research Kaleidoscope 2022 website here