ARTE: STOP THE PERCEPTIONS HOLLYWOOD!

YES...this is brillant and funny! More information about this project HERE

mamahope.org

ARTE: Mustafa Maluka

L O V E

http://www.mustafamaluka.com/

 Whats there not to love about a man who makes art like this and wears t-shirts like that!

ARTE: IN/FLUX - Mediatrips from the African World

IN/FLUX - Mediatrips from the African World

IN/FLUX is a series of three DVDs. Each DVD is a compilation of experimental films and videos from the African world. The violence and the pleasures, the contradictions, fears and desires of a planet shaped by the postcolonial condition, the present-future of our common humanity in a global, 21st century system shot through with radical change: these are the foci of IN/FLUX, addressed from Africa and her diasporas by creators who reject easy approaches or answers.

The works included in the first IN/FLUX DVD centre on the dual theme of movement and displacement. They consider shifts in time, place and psyche, in imaginaries and (pre)conceptions, played out on urban stages deployed as laboratories for the elaboration of alternative perceptual fields. A range of genres is represented: documentary gazes and Afrofuturist takes, spy camera zoom-ins and travels through virtual landscapes, (mock) music-video and horror-flick aesthetics. The result is a (media) trip through multiple universes: inner worlds, dreamscapes and in your face reality checks.

IN/FLUX is a partnership between two cutting-edge entities: SPARCK (Space for Pan-African Research, Creation and Knowledge / The Africa Centre – Cape Town, South Africa) and Lowave (an independent film label based in Paris, France). IN/FLUX # 1 is curated by Dominique Malaquais, Cédric Vincent and Silke Schmickl

10 Film(s), Interviews, Bios, Filmographies, runtime 104 minutes, PAL/NTSC, ALL ZONES, stereo, 4:3/16:9, Booklet text by Dominique Malaquais.

Andre S. Belcher - Contributor

ARTE: Julia Raynham

We are happy to have a new contributor for ARTE: we've been following Andre S. Belcher and his interesting observations in contemporary art for a while now. When it comes to art Andre admits that he is only concerned with "The naked and unabashed truth."

Global Arts: Visual Arts - Experimental Film/Video

Julia Raynham
Born 1966 (Cape Town, South Africa)

Julia Raynham’s work melds choreography, theatre, poetry, video, sound, performance and improv, in a distinctly experimental vein. After studying architecture and music, she trained extensively as a sangoma (link beeen the ancestral and human worlds, specialist of herbal medicine, counsel in matters of psychological disturbance in Zulu, Swazi, Xhosa and Ndebele communities of Southern Africa). An ex-member of key collectives on the South Africa scene (Honeymoon Suites; The Mothertongue Project) and a writer (We Tell Our Old Songs: San Music of Southern Africa, with Marlene Winberg, 2004; ilikemagazine), she is the founder of Resonance Bazaar, a multidisciplinary platform for the development of artistic partnerships. Among her most renowned works are: Return to Traveller (The Edge, Cape Town, 2009); 21st Century Animal (7th edition of Rencontres Chorégraphiques de l’Afrique et de l’Océan Indien, 2008); and A New Body Will Be Assembled...More Brilliant Than Before (Below:Video)

Video: A collaboration between Julia Raynham and James Tayler

Andre S. Belcher - Contributor

ARTE: Mary Sibande - Long Live The Dead Queen

South African artist Mary Sibande has done something amazing in her series Long Live The Dead Queen. We really love her installation/sculptures but what we love the most is how she takes over buildings in some nice and not so nice places with putting the “Dead Queen” up for the entire city to see.

ARTE: SEYDOU KEITA

ARTE: AFRIKAN BAZAAR: INTERN

The gallery has its own YouTube channel now. Papillion Institute of Art

ARTE: AFRIKAN BAZAAR ENDS JULY 12

ARTE: Ken Saro Wiwa: Street Art

Ken Saro Wiwa was an extraordinary writer and fought against the oil companies that polluted his land and people.  He was imprisoned and ultimately murdered by those he fought against.

"I am a man of ideas, in and out of prison my ideas will be heard"

ARTE: Sam Nhlengethwa

I think Rommie would be happy with these.

PS Sam is South African

ARTE: Stuart Bird

Stuart Bird lives in South Africa.  He is deeply concerned and not happy with the abuses and treatment of women.

ARTE: FELA

Just read that this show ends in Jan 2011.  Only a few months left, make it to NY and see it.

ARTE: Numa Perrier

Miss Numa Perrier was an artist from the Hello Show exhibit.  We just love this piece tons.

MISS NUMA GLOVES YOU 

ARTE: Muraina Oyelami

Muraina Oyelami is a master painter and performance artist.  He was born in Nigeria in 1940.

ARTE: POP AFRICANA

WE HAVE A FEW ISSUES LEFT IN THE POP SHOP...HURRY HURRY AND GET YOURS NOW!

ARTE: Bouncing Cats

Directed by Nabil Elderkin

ARTE: MUSIC: U-N-I

This rap duo consist of one part Eritrean, one part Ivory Coast, one part Belizean and one part Black American

ARTE: AFRICA10 Shorts

ARTE: Kudzanai Chiurai

Kudzanai Chiurai was born in Zimbabwe in 1981.  He is a mixed media artist.   A painter and photographer.

ARTE: Nontsikelelo Veleko

Nontsikelelo Veleko is South African.  She is one of my favorite photographers.