Silence as a Room
red earth in Silence
Dreaming, Dreamers and Dream-Eaters
[3min read] “Dreaming in two places – my mind and the world – both are an illusion of our own making”, so says Zhangzi. While Kunene (Poet Laurette-Mazisi Kunene) takes us on a journey of mystery when contemplating the mind and how the universe is formed, in his unpublished work, The Mystery of the Mind…he …
V-bag musings
Taking a break from my all-consuming Dreams as R-evolution installation and an outstanding report, I harkened back to the V-Bag series as the images of the bag yawn in front of me. Sitting with my foot in a vinegar-d bandage (a broken toe) as a result of my wrestling with the ocean for our bags, …
Dreams as R-evolution
Supported by the National Arts Council and the Human Elephant Foundation Music written for the Dreams as R-evolution installation by Salim Washington and UZIBO How uncanny is it that I began writing about this Dreams as R-evolution concept – the installation and artbook more than 2 years ago. ARTBOOK PROCESS IZIKO INSTALLATION SPACE AUTHORITY / …
‘green’
‘green’, a mixed media installation of sculptural form and 2 dimensional work, grew out of my process of ‘greening the gallery’ during the re-installation of Dreams as R-evolution at the IZIKO National Gallery in Cape Town, 2021. ‘green’ sought to challenge what was the traditional white-spaced Entrance/Main gallery set up for many years to exhibit …
dreams, wishes and expectations_recycled
This body of work emanated from the exhibition I curated called, Dreams, Wishes and Exhibitions for the Voices of Women Museum in an old building downtown. Photographs by Roger Jardine and Coral Bijoux To see the associated blog, click here
Dreams as R-evolution, 2019-2020
Also powered by the Human Elephant Foundation After scientist, He Jiankui, was sentenced to 3-years in jail for his experimentation with germline gene editing, academics and scientists say a call to open an international debate on somatic and germline gene editing has to be considered. The issue of ethics in any human endeavour will always …
The Allegory of the Vanity of the Plastic Spoon
Vanity: its first known use in the 15th century is derived from Anglo-French vanité and before that the Latin, vanitas, which means “emptiness, lack of judgment, foolish pride”; or vānus referring to “empty and lacking content”1. Vanity Fair, the novel of the early 19th Century, satirising British society then and later it became the title …
Dreams, Wishes and Expectations
Slide show by Coral Bijoux; Selected photographs by Roger Jardine and Coral Bijoux, music by Leonard Cohen-You want it Darker This work began as an installation within the Dreams, Wishes and Expectations exhibition which I curated in 2017, as the first and temporary location of the Voices of Women Museum. To see the associated blog, …