Listings(s)
Who's Abject Now Bitch? or, Crime Scene Consistent with a Particular Double Homicide
Linda Stupart at YOUNGBLACKMAN'Oh wow, you're letting me show in your gallery? The gallery I pretty much conceptualised when I was in bed with you? That's amazing. And you want me to do something slick, that doesn't interrupt your white cube too much. Awesome! What a wonderful opportunity...'
At YOUNGBLACKMAN Linda Stupart examines the politics of gender relations both personally and in the 'artworld boys' club' - typified by the gallery itself - addressing the difficulties of claiming agency as a young woman artist.
15 December 2009 - 08 January 2010
Voight-Kampff
David Scadden, Linda Stupart, Shani Nel, Andrew Lamprecht, Justin Allart, Niklas Wittenberg and Catherine Ocholla at UCA GalleryPhilip K. Dick introduced the Voight-Kampff[ii] Empathy Test to the environs of post-World War Terminus in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the book behind Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner). The test would measure involuntary responses in subjects (blushing, respiration, eye tension) to emotionally evocative questions to detect whether they were human or android. Curatorially, Catherine Ocholla has opted to explore the concept behind the test (real/fake; fantasy/fiction; empathy; violence or its potential, etc.) through a selection of works in various media that use visual cues that ‘normally’ elicit certain kinds of reactions. From butterflies to bullets, seeming opposites masquerade and provoke new responses or narratives from the viewer, some expected and easily conveyed and some less so.
Participating artists include Shani Nel, David Scadden, Justin Allart, Niklas Wittenberg, Catherine Ocholla, Linda Stupart and Andrew Lamprecht
29 July 2009 - 21 August 2009
'Alptraum'
Ed Young, Ian Grose, Wim Botha, Ruth Sacks, Linda Stupart, Zander Blom and Various Artists at Deutscher KunstlerbundLike George Orwell with his 'Room 101' in his predictive tale 1984, we all have our own version of what constitutes a nightmare, and for this reason, the project has been opened to a large number of artists whose many and varied personal nightmare versions, or visions, act to reflect this hugely variable human state of fears and fobias, pain and panic. 'Alptraum', the German for 'nightmare', is an artist-led project. It is a model which utilizes global communication between localized artist hubs and clusters to form an international grouping with the intent of opening a dialogue about this subject across borders and cultures in order to delve into the stuff and mind-murk that is collectively shared or completely random and unrelated, or individual and specific within the syndrome of 'The Nightmare'. Each artist draws on their own personal experience in order to visualize those anxieties, which take them beyond everyday dreams.
Working within the remit of the ‘artist-curated project’, all of the works in 'Alptraum' have been restricted in size and material in order to facilitate the low-cost postal transportation of the show from country to country. With each exhibition site taking responsibility to pass the show on to the next host, the number of works and artists may change or grow, and the approach to interpreting and hanging the show vary from space to space as the body of works meanders on from country to country. Having started in Washington DC and transferred to London, the exhibition is currently showing in Berlin. It will travel to Los Angeles next, followed by its arrival at blank projects in Cape Town. The Berlin iteration extends the exhibition to include the work of 19 South African artists, such as Sanell Aggenbach, Zander Blom, Ian Grose, Ruth Sacks, Linda Stupart, Wim Botha and Ed Young.
11 March 2011 - 15 April 2011
'Vex and Siolence'
Linda Stupart, Stuart Bird and Belinda Blignaut at YOUNGBLACKMANStuart Bird, Belinda Blignaut and Linda Stupart present 'Vex and Siolence', a collaborative exhibition at YOUNGBLACKMAN. Building on the axes of anger and desire that each of the artists engage with in their individual practices, 'Vex and Siolence' displays an interrogation of the violence and pathos of everyday life, all the while demonstrating an acute lack of respect for the walls that define and enclose the gallery.
The final act became the meaning
No-one cared
There will be a performance from 18:00 – 21:00 on opening night.
10 December 2010 - 10 December 2010
