Kwaito set from Mma Tseleng and Kadromatt opens 'Appeal 2012'

Mma Tseleng & Kadromatt return to explore early Kwaito's use of language in Case # 001/05/1994-2004: Sghubu vs The People. Building from Hillbrow: The Map, a mixtape and cassette sleeve publication that looked at royalty and ownership cases in early Kwaito, the duo will perform at the vernissage of the exhibition 'Appeal' a set that investigates music's disregard for morals, the media, academia, hypocrisy and society's double standards.

Join Mma Tseleng & Kadromatt to celebrate the opening of Elgin Rust's exhibition and research project that together with a dozen participating artists explores the intersection of art, law and the media and related notions of redress.

The exhibition is the inaugural project of guerilla gallery, which eschews its own bricks and mortar to host projects in makeshift city spaces.

Date: Tuesday 11 September
Time: 18h00
Venue: 3 Buxton Street, cnr 29 Siemert, Doornfontein, Johannesburg - courtesy The Living Artists' Emporium

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Hillbrow: The Map (detail) (2012)
Installation towards a cassette sleeve and mixtape publication, part of the Independent Publishing Project, April 2012
Mma Tseleng and Kadromatt
Image credit: Francis Burger

Full jury for 'APPEAL 2012'

The forthcoming exhibition 'APPEAL 2012', opening on Tuesday 11 September in Doornfontein, has a full participating 'jury' of a dozen artists. They range from a poet to an artist inspired by graffiti and rap, to another whose signature is inflatable sculptures. 

The participating artists are: Catherine Dickerson, Amber-Jade Geldenhuys, Ansie Greyling, Ikram Lakhdhar, Kai Lossgott, Nelson Makamo, Leroye Malaton, Agnes Marton, Naadira Patel, Sandile Radebe, Pauline Theart and Marguerite Visser. 

They will respond in their chosen medium broadly to the notion of judicial redress, more specifically triggered by a core installation from Cape Town-based artist Elgin Rust. At the heart of 'APPEAL 2012' is a centrepiece of 'evidence' in diverse media including found courtroom furniture reconfigured into installations. There is also photographic evidence, audio recordings, documentation and an online archive of case material.  

The project has a roll call of fictional characters headed by Advocate Alice who leads the evidence. The collaborating artists are in turn imagined as a jury and their aesthetic responses will be assembled into the group exhibition at different points over its two-week run. The finissage on 24 September could be understood as a composite statement about emotional transformation. 

Planned works range from narrative text and poetry to video, found objects such as surveillance cameras, resampled sound and more. One participant is interacting with the project long-distance from the US in an experimental profiling exchange. 

The exhibition is preceded by a workshop where participants are invited to refine their responses and collaborate. 

A dedicated exhibition website has more information: http://appeal-2012.withtank.com

Exhibit C  (2010)

Elgin Rust

Sixth in the Series, Edition ⅓

Photomontage, collaged, archival ink on photolustre paper

84 x 147cm

Vernissage: Tuesday 11 September @ 18h00
Venue: 2nd floor, Warehouse Building East, 3 Buxton Street, Doornfontein
Viewing hours: 10h00-14h00
Finissage: Monday 24 September & 18h00

'APPEAL 2012': Artists collaborate in Doornfontein exhibition spanning art, law, & media

Exhibition venue
'The Living Artists' Emporium'
3 Buxton Street, 2nd floor, Warehouse Building East, Doornfontein, Johannesburg

A constantly morphing exhibition that explores ideas around art, law and the media opens next month on 11 September in a pop-up event at an inner-city warehouse. 

'APPEAL 2012', the culmination of a long-running research project by artist Elgin Rust, incorporates over its two-week exhibition run the creative responses of a dozen other artists to existing 'evidence' around notions of the judiciary and related issues of redress. 

Rust says: "Much like a trial gets re-opened for an appeal where evidence is re-evaluated, the project is re-opened and investigated. And like a case that goes into an appeal moves between courts, the project now moves location from Cape Town to Johannesburg."

Invited artists will respond in their chosen medium, ranging from sculpture to video, photography, sound and text. Planned artworks include inflatable sculptures, obsolete surveillance cameras, singing and graffiti. These will be integrated into the composite installation by the exhibition close, into what Rust terms a final 'judgement'. The joint collaborative visual statement regarding emotional transformation will be fully evident at the exhibition's finissage on 24 September.

Participants include: Catherine Dickerson, Amber-Jade Geldenhuys, Ansie Greyling, Kai Lossgott, Leroye Malaton, Agnes Marton, Naadira Patel, Sandile Radebe, Pauline Theart and Marguerite Visser.

The exhibition is facilitated by guerilla gallery, an artist-led platform that hosts projects in makeshift city spaces. The venue is courtesy of The Living Artists' Emporium in Doornfontein and 1886, a property development, asset and financing solutions company. The exhibition is partly sponsored by the National Arts Council.

Exhibition opens: Tuesday 11 September @ 18h00

Exhibition closes: Monday 24 September

Exhibition venue: 2nd floor, Warehouse Building East, 3 Buxton Street, Doornfontein, Johannesburg

Exhibition hours: M-F 10h00-14h00; Sat 10h00-14h00

Artist's walkabout: Saturday 22 September @ 11h00

Contact details: guerilla gallery

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