MARCH APRIL 2016 programme
OVERVIEW When
What & Where
10/03/2016- TO BE DETERMINED 10/04/2016 GOETHEONMAIN 10/03/2016 LITERARY CROSSROADS GOETHE-INSTITUT 15/03/2016 The Edge of Heaven (Auf der Anderen Seite) Goethe-Institut 15/03/2016- WHEN TOMORROW COMES 29/05/2016 WITS ART MUSEUM 17/03/2016
SLAVE SLAVE FINALLY EUROPE IS BURNING AGAIN Appolonia Theatre
22/03/2016 BERLIN: ENCOUNTERS WITH FONTANE Goethe-Institut 14/04/2016- ANTI-HUMBOLDT BOX 15/06/2016 GOETHE-INSTITUT 21/04/2016 The Kaiser’s Lackey (Der Untertan) GOETHE-INSTITUT 21/04/2016- what does it mean? 26/05/2016 GOETHEONMAIN
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EXHIBITION
To be determined
OPENING 10/03/2016 18H30, Runs Until 10/04/2016 GOETHEONMAIN, 245 MAIN STREET, MABONENG PRECINCT Skye and Karin are urban dowsers, following lay lines to unlikely conclusions. Where truth and facts are sparse, they forage for small pieces of history and patch it together to formulate and stage urban myths. This will manifest itself as an active installation and discursive space that will inhabit and grow at the GoetheonMain for a lifespan of one and a half months. Previous iterations of this process have resulted in: an Ark to provide safety from a predicted flood and a plant-dispersing spaceship that had landed in Braamfontein.
Things are Possible. Image courtesy Skye + Karin
LITERATURE
LITERARY CROSSROADS
10/03/2016 19H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 Topic: Quo Vadis Africa: The Power of Words - The Words of Power? Guests: Panashe Chigumadzi (Zimbabwe/South Africa) and Zukiswa Wanner (South Africa/Kenya) Moderator: TBA Two extraordinary writers explore the world around them and use the various forms of literature to offer new insights into the changing landscapes around us. Poems to enter our fragile selves and its sensations of change, love and lost; prose to investigate the role of the self within the socio- intellectual as well as the economic space we inhabit. Non-fiction and journalism to hint at the paradoxes of our world, the dogmas and the
Image courtesy Panashe Chigumadzi.
Zukiswa Wanner © Fungai Machirori
pasts we are haunted by and how theses dogmas shape our presents and perceptions. The two writers will share their texts, talk about the postcolonial spaces of today and how the world needs a change of attitudes, role models and institutions, how a writer and her world can influence what we see and how we see it. Intellectual and entertaining at the same time, this evening will celebrate the power of the word and strong women.
FILM SCREENING
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der Anderen Seite) 15/03/2016 18H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 Fatih Akin’s film The Edge of Heaven (2009) was awarded the first annual LUX film prize by the European Parliament in 2007. The film deals with current social issues and has a unique way of illuminating the subject of integration. The LUX prize finances the subtitling of the film into all twenty-three official languages of the European Union, enabling all Europeans to view the film in their national language. This endeavor aims to support the artistic output of European cinema and promote cultural aspects in the European Union. © Goethe-Institut English subtitles. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org by 14/03/2016
Image courtesy Auf der Anderen Seite
EXHIBITION
WHEN TOMORROW COMES
15/03/2016 18H00, runs to 29 May WITS ART MUSEUM (WAM), 1 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, BRAAMFONTEIN, 2000 When Tomorrow Comes comprises a range of artists’ engagements with the idea of ‘end times’ and its contraries. Globally and nationally, we are mired in catastrophism: prophets of doom – environmental, social and economic – rule the public imaginary. It is with this in mind that curators, Michael Titlestad, Jacki McInnes and Jyoti Mistry, have invited preeminent local and international artists to work through apocalypticism; to confront the orthodoxy of conclusion and to think beyond it to forms of survival, regeneration and rebirth. How, the range of artworks asks, can we represent and contend with fatalism? Participating artists include: Jane Alexander (SA), Willem Boshoff (SA), Stephen Cohen (SA/France), Cyrus Kabiru (Kenya), Volker März (Germany), Michael MacGarry (SA), Moffat Takadiwa (Zimbabwe/SA), Marianne Halter & Mario Marchisella (Switzerland), Jacki McInnes (SA), Jyoti Mistry (SA), Mohau Modisakeng (SA), and Diane Victor (SA).
DISCUSSION
SLAVE SLAVE - FINALLY EUROPE IS BURNING AGAIN
17/03/2016 13H15 APPOLONIA THEATRE, SECOND FLOOR , WITS SCHOOL OF ARTS, 1 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, BRAAMFONTEIN, 2000 Artist Volker März discusses his work, which is presented as part of the exhibition When Tomorrow Comes at the Wits Art Museum.
The artists states “The disappearance of ‘man’ at the end of time will not be a catastrophe. Man will become part of nature again. His actions will however disappear: wars, revolutions and the bitch called high-culture, a culture that did not give rise to anything but an increasing distance from the natural. Thanks to apartheid, cars, iPhones, fragmentation bombs and god. At the end of time man should wash his brain by himself daily and keep the ability to play, make art, love etc. … all of the things that makes man ‘beastly happy’.... without any kind of religion.”
Half Dogs in Greece © Volker März
DISCUSSION
BERLIN: ENCOUNTERS WITH FONTANE
22/03/2016 19H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193 Theodor Fontane (1819-1898), author of renowned novels such as Irrungen Wirrungen (Diversions and Entanglements), Frau Jenny Treibel, Effi Briest and Der Stechlin is considered a master of the social novel in German literature. Georg Bartsch is a member of the Theodor Fontane Society of Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany. He has proved himself an expert on Theodor Fantane’s works with the publication of Briefe aus Berlin- which appears regularly in Fontane Society publications (communications). Bartsch’s reading from Begegnunng mit Fontane promises to be an evening of riveting entertainment.
A portrait of Theodor Fontane
EXHIBITION
ANTI-HUMBOLDT BOX
EXHIBITION OPENING 14/04/2016 18H30, RUNS UNTIL 15/06/2016. WORKSHOP 15/04/2016, GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD, 2193
Anti-Humboldt-Installation Florence © Artifakte & Anti-Humboldt
The Anti-Humboldt-Box is a reaction to the reconstruction of the historic Prussian castle in the centre of Berlin as the Humboldt Forum – a new museum set to open in 2019 and housing amongst others the “ethnological” collections of that city. The Artefakte//Anti-Humboldt (Brigitta Kuster, Regina Sarreiter and Dierk Schmidt) state that: “The AntiHumboldt-Box adopts Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise (Box in a Valise) as an idea of the exhibition in a suitcase. Artefakte//Anti-Humboldt, AFROTAK TV cyberNomads (Adetoun and Michael Küppers-Adebisi) in collaboration with Andreas Siekmann seize on this idea, using it to transport the critique of Berlin’s Humboldt-Forum to various locations and taking in new pieces over time. “The exhibition is accompanied by a guided tour through the suitcase and a day-long workshop that addresses the problematics of human remains in museums’ and university collections.
FILM SCREENING
THE KAISER’S LACKEY (der untertan) 21/04/2016 18H30 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD 2193
In The Kaiser’s Lackey (1951), a young boy named Diedrich is afraid of everything. But as Diedrich grows older, he learns that by groveling before his superiors and manipulating or stepping on everyone else, he is capable of advancing his position in life. As he progresses from a beerswilling cadet, to a ruthless factory owner and finally to a lackey for the Kaiser, Diedrich’s ambition for power and prestige comes to fruition. Based on Heinrich Mann’s influential novel Der Untertan, which casts Germany’s penchant for ultra-nationalism and authoritarianism in a satirical light, this scathingly funny, once-banned classic is now ranked by film critics as one of the most significant German films of all time. English subtitles. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to Stefanie.Mazuch@Johannesburg.goethe.org by 20/04/2016
Image courtesy Der Untertan
EXHIBITION
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
21/04/2016- 26/05/2016 OPENING 21/04/2016 18H00, RUNS UNTIL 26/05/2016 GoetheonMain, 245 Main Street, Maboneng Precinct
Themba Mbuyisa Self-Portrait © Themba Mbuyisa
Can work carry an artist statement without it having a verbal or written presentation on it? Does the audience always know what an artist meant before they even went through their work? Or does this saturation of images in today’s imagery-saturated world distort or confirm this meaning? What role does an artist statement have to play and can it involve the audience in its meaning? These are the questions that inspired this project by Nkosinathi Khumalo and Themba Mbuyisa. The gap between what the artist intended to say and how the audience receives the work informs or distorts the meaning of an artist’s work. This exhibition invites the viewer’s participation as a meaning is more than a fixed process. An exhibition that will open with no artist statement presented to its audience, the show will invite the viewers to participate in the whole exhibition. As opposed to them coming and viewing work on a white wall and keeping their views about the work to themselves, we present work with an artist statement that will be developed through the people’s participation.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION FILM FESTIVAL
Batho Ba Lorato Film Festival
from 16-19 March in Gabarone, Botswana. The fourth annual Batho Ba Lorato (which translates ‘People of Love’ in the Setswana language) film festival is an LGBTI film festival which aims to highlight, educate and raise awareness on LGBTI issues in Africa. It shows stories of love, joy and happiness, trials and tribulations of the community. This year’s theme is “More Than Our Sexuality”. This year we have a great selection of films from across Africa and the world that we are excited to be screening. The festival’s target audience are the religious leaders, policy makers, the Batswana community at large, as well as the LGBTI community in the country. Batho Ba Lorato Film Festival
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ARTS EDUCATION
ARTUCATION
ONGOING Artucation is an arts education programme by Keep the Dream which takes place every Wednesday. It involves high-school learners using multidisciplinary spaces as a starting point to initiate dialogues which
Participants in the Artucation programme in a multidisciplinary space © Masimba Sasa
comment on learners’ social, political and personal environment. They talk about art and begin to unpack and translate themes in their own interpretation. These discussions continue beyond these multidisciplinary spaces into the classroom. In this ways, the Artucation programme starts to become an “art class outside of class” and a youth platform for expressive intervention in arts education. This year Artucation will take it a step further by having various collaborations with Film-, Visual Arts-, and Applied Drama Facilitators and School teachers.
ONLINE MUSIC PLATFORM
MUSIC IN AFRICA
ONGOING
Music In Africa will join a host of international and local partners to present a theme called Future Forum: Focus on Africa during the Musikmesse international music fair in Frankfurt from 8 to 10 April 2016. The initiative is designed to place key focus on the African music sector for the first time in the event’s history. As part of this theme, there will be a number of activities including panel discussions focused on Africa, an exhibition of African music compositions (scores) presented by the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) Foundation, a showcase concert headlined by the Cameroonian band Macase who will be collaborating with German musicians after an exchange workshop at the Pop Academy in Mannheim, Germany. In addition, a meeting area called Africa-House will showcase African instruments and offer opportunities to listen to and discover African musicduring the fair. The Music In Africa portal will also be a key focus as one of the platforms playing a pivotal role in connecting the African music sector. Partners involved in the festival include Siemens Stiftung, Goethe-Institut, Samro Foundation, Popakademie Mannheim, Afroton, Brotfabrik, Weltkulturen Museum and the Deutscher Chorverband. Music In Africa is an initiative by GoetheInstitut together with the Siemens Stiftung.
Front cover detail: Themba Mbuyisa Self-Portrait © Themba Mbuyisa Design: www.prinsdesign.co.za
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