[spectre] UPCOMING | "On Fire. Notions of Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa"| Photography Exhibition

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UPCOMING
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Andrew Tshabangu, Encounters of Bamako series, 2009. Courtesy of the
artist and Gallery MOMO.

ON FIRE. Notions of Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Andrew Tshabangu | Sabelo Mlangeni | Musa Nxumalo | Dean Hutton

Kuratiert von Manuel Osterholt

Musa N. Nxumalo, Sihle Khambule (1) – Alternative Kidz series, 2009.
Courtesy of the artist and SMAC gallery.

..imagine a community with as lose a form as you will -even formless: the only
condition is that an experience of moral freedom be shared in common, and not
reduced to the flat, self-cancelling, self-denying meaning of particular freedom
J. Bataille, in Jean-Luc Nancy’s „La communaute desoeuvree” (Die undarstellbare
Gemeinschaft).

Grimmuseum freut sich die Gruppenausstellung ON FIRE - Notions of Community in
Post-Apartheid South Africa zu präsentieren. Die Ausstellung ON FIRE bringt
fünf südafrikanische Fotografen unterschiedlicher Generationen nach Berlin. Sie
alle legen einen Fokus auf verschiedene Aspekte des sozialen Lebens, wie
Spiritualität, Identität, Immigration, Familie und LGTBI (Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex). Hierdurch wird in ihren visuellen Ansätzen
der Begriff der „Gemeinschaft“ im spezifischen Kontext der „Rainbow Nation“ auf
unterschiedliche Art und Weise dokumentiert und befragt, offengelegt und/oder
neu interpretiert.

Die Idee der „Gemeinschaft“ schöpft aus einem immensen Pool an sozialen
Narrativen und politischen Phantasien – von verloren gegangenen Utopien der
Vergangenheit hin zum Verlangen nach einem Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl für die
Zukunft. Banalisiert durch die häufige Verwendung in sozialen Medien jeglicher
Art, benutzt und ausgenutzt in politischen Reden verschiedener, wenn nicht
sogar gegensätzlicher Tendenzen, erscheint „Gemeinschaft“ als ein
Portmonteau-Wort. Genauer gesagt, als ein Gemeinplatz.

Darüber hinaus können wir, in Bezug auf den französischen Philosophen J.L.
Nancy, fragen: Hat die Entstehung von entkolonialisierten Gemeinschaften, unser
gesteigertes Bewusstsein darüber und die Entwicklung an noch nie dagewesenen
Formen des Zusammenseins (durch Informationskanäle, sowie durch eine sogenannte
„multi-racial“ Gesellschaft) denn in irgendeiner Art und Weise eine echte
Neubelebung der Frage nach Gemeinschaft ausgelöst?

In der Ausstellung wird eine visuelle Annäherung an diese Frage untersucht. Die
Auswahl an Fotografien (re)präsentiert Gemeinschaften, die sowohl in konkreten
sozialen Realitäten in Südafrika als auch in projizierten, phantasmagorischen
und fantasierten Landschaften existieren. Da Gemeinschaften an unerwarteten
Orten auftauchen, kreieren sie einen Bereich zwischen dem Globalisierten und
dem Fragmentierten. Im Unterschied zu anderen Identitäts- oder
Bedeutungsträgern (Religion, Gender, „Ethnizität“, etc), erscheint die
„Gemeinschaft“ zum einen als ein besonders nützliches Konzept, um die
Komplexität von zerstörten Realitäten in der Krise von alten, stabilen
Identifikationsmodellen zu beschreiben und zum anderen als eine konkrete
Praxis, die es schafft (oder eben auch nicht) ein Gefühl des Miteinanders und
der Zugehörigkeit herzustellen. Was „Gemeinschaft“ erzeugen kann, scheint immer
wieder neu definiert werden zu müssen. Von der Verbundenheit in einer
spirituellen Erfahrung
eines religiösen Gefühls (wie in den Arbeiten von Andrews Tshabangu
portraitiert) zu der Dokumentation illegaler Arbeitsmigranten in Dean Huttons
„Zuma Zumas“ Serie – Gemeinschaften erscheinen in diesen Arbeiten als eine
Verteilung, Verbreitung und Imprägnierung von Identität in Pluralität, die nach
der Möglichkeit einer „absoluten Immanenz des Menschen als Mensch“ fragen.

Im Rahmen des Programms von ON FIRE 2014 - 2015
Initiiert und produziert von Constanza Macras | Dorky Park
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english

Dean Hutton, Zama Zama (1) – ZamaZama4life series, 2012-2014.
Courtesy of the artist.

ON FIRE. Notions of Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Andrew Tshabangu | Sabelo Mlangeni | Musa Nxumalo | Dean Hutton

Curated by Manuel Osterholt

..imagine a community with as lose a form as you will -even formless: the only
condition is that an experience of moral freedom be shared in common, and not
reduced to the flat, self-cancelling, self-denying meaning of particular freedom
J. Bataille, in Jean-Luc Nancy’s “ La communaute desoeuvree” (The inoperative
community).

Grimmuseum is pleased to present the group exhibition ON FIRE – Notions of
Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa. The Photography Exhibition brings to
Berlin five South African photographers from different generations. Focusing on
various aspects of social life such as spirituality, identity, immigration,
family and LGTBI life, their visual approaches document, question, reveal
and/or reinterpret in different ways the notion of “community” in the specific
context of the “Rainbow Nation”.

The idea of “community” draws a vast landscape in social narratives and
political imagination, that go from the lost utopias of the past, to the
longing for the sense of togetherness of the future. Banalized through its
extensive use in social media of all sorts, used and abused in political
speeches from different if not opposed tendencies, “community” can appear as a
port-manteau word. Or a common-place, precisely.

More over, we could ask, after french philosopher J. L. Nancy: has the
emergence and our increasing consciousness of decolonized communities, the
growth of unprecedented forms of being-in-common -through the channels of
information as well as through what is called “multi-racial” society, triggered
any genuine renewal of the question of community?

This exhibition explores a visual approach to that question. The selection of
photographies (re)present communities that exist in concrete social realities
of South Africa as well as in its projected, phantasmagoric or fantasized
landscape. Communities appear in unexpected spaces, drawing a landscape between
the globalized and the fragmented. Different from other identity narratives or
signifiers (religion, gender, “ethnicity”, etc), the “community” appear both as
a particularly useful concept to sign the complexity of certain disrupted
realities in the crisis of old and more stable models of identification, and a
concrete praxis that creates (or not) a sense of togetherness and belonging.
What creates a sense of “community” seems needing to be redefined again and
again. From the communion in the spiritual experience of the religious feeling
(as beautifully portrait in the work of Andrew Tshabangu), to the documentation
of the illegal migrant workers that Dean Hutton
portraits in the „Zuma Zumas“ series, communities appear in these works in the
sharing, diffusion, or impregnation of an identity by a plurality, and
interrogate the possibility of an “absolute immanence of human to human”.

As part of the ON FIRE program 2014 - 2015
Initiated & produced by Constanza Macras | Dorky Park
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CVs

Andrew Tshabangu (b. 1966, ZA)
Born in 1966 in Soweto, Andrew has studied at a number of institutions, amongst
them at the Institute of Advancement for Journalism in 1998 and at the
Alexandra Community Art Centre in Johannesburg. He taught photography at the
Children's Photography Workshop, 1995 and in 1998 and 1999 he taught at both
the Market Photo Workshop and post Matric photography courses. In 1998 he was
an artist in residency at the Gasworks Art Studio, London.
Tshabangu’s experience in documenting the spiritual ceremonies of black
communities came into play in capturing the rituals of daily life in an African
metropolis. As a photographer he is renowned for smoky, atmospheric lighting
that lends a mystical element to his images.
Tshabangu regularly participates in workshops abroad, more recently, he was
invited by the Nairobi Arts Trust and the Centre for Contemporary Arts of East
Africa to conduct a photographic workshop in Nairobi, titled: Amnesia, Platform
III. The workshop also had a curatorial strategies and criticism component,
produced by Simon Njami and culminated in an exhibition at the National Museum
Nairobi.

Dean Hutton (b. 1976, ZA)
Dean Hutton, is a genderqueer artist in Joburg interested in portraiture as
co-authorship; social media as narrative; technology as self-reflection and
provocation. Dean is exploring ways in which to build a love revolution, from
their more personal work, to creating relationships and gathering collaborators
to make our public and intimate spaces safer through artist-led creation,
mentorship and community organising.
Dean works across photography, video, social media, performance and community
action. They were chief photographer of the Mail & Guardian, a Ruth First
Fellow, one of the 200 Top Young South Africans, was awarded an Africa Centre
AIR Award & is a POPCAP ‘15 runner up. Dean co-curated the #notgayasinhappy
#QUEERasinfuckyou Film Festival in June 2015, and is on the organising
committee of the Hillbrow public arts festival. Solo shows @ Goethe JHB; FNB
Joburg Art Fair; Pt Ephemere, Paris & ROOM. Dean is a director of The Con
magazine, an anti-media media platform founded as a response to the South
African media’s unchecked and unacknowledged race, gender and class bias.
In a 18-year career as a photojournalist in Johannesburg Dean was chief
photographer at the Mail & Guardian newspaper where her work won several
awards. As a photojournalist her interest is directed towards an in-depth
documentation of stories that may not necessarily seem newsworthy. Much of
Dean’s work is concerned with social issues, and includes the rights of women
and the dispossessed, and giving voice to those who are rarely heard above the
furore of mainstream media coverage and middle class indignation. She has
worked extensively and collaboratively with art projects and artists locally
and internationally.

Musa N. Nxumalo (b. 1986, ZA)
Artist working with Photography as a preferred medium, his photographs explore
Youth Culture and their Identity as a Journey To Self-Discovery. Nxumalo’s work
interchanges between Social documentary and Fine Art.
Nxumalo has had four solo exhibitions and a range of group exhibitions both
locally and internationally including; For Those Who LiveIn It in the
Netherlands, 2010, Space Between Us in Germany, 2013 and My Joburg at Maison
Rouge Gallery in Paris, 2013.
Recent exhibitions include In Search Of... which showcased two bodies of work
Alternative-Kidz (2008) and In/Glorious (2012) and traveled between SMAC
Stellenbosch and the Goethe Insitute, Johannesburg, 2015.
Nxumalo has also won several awards such as 1st prize in Visual Art for the
Impact Awards 2010, 2nd Prize for the MTNCIT:Y Festival 2009 and the Edward
Ruiz Mentorship in 2008. Most recently his book In Search Of… was shortlisted
as one of the ten finalists for the FIRST Book Awards 2015. The book is
currently nominated for Fourthwall books publishing award.

Sabelo Mlangeni (b. 1980, ZA)
Sabelo Mlangeni was born 1980 in Driefontain near Wak- kerstroom in Mpumalanga/
South Africa. 2001 he moved to Johannesburg and attended the Market Photo
Workshop, where he graduated in 2004. In 2009 he received the Toll- man Award
for the Visual Arts.
The series Men Only, Country Girls, Ghost Towns und At Home have been shown at
Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Sabelo Mlangeni is represented
by Ste- venson Gallery since 2010.
Recently he participated in various international Group exhibitions
(selection): Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photo- graphy and the Bureaucracy of
Everyday Life International Center of Photography, New York, Haus der Kunst
Munich, Germany and Johannesburg Museum Africa (2012, 2013 and 2014). Public
Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa at the Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Fran- cisco (2014). 9th Rencontres de Bamako African Photo- graphy
Biennial in Mali and Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria (both 2011). Appropriated
Landscapes, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany (2011). Figures
and Fic- tions: Contemporary South African photography, V&A Museum, London
(2011). Possible Cities: Africa in pho- tography and video, Cantor Fitzgerald
Gallery, Haverford College, Pennsylvania (2011). Afropolis: City, Media, Art,
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany (2010). I am not afraid: The
Market Photo Workshop Johannesburg, Johannesburg Art Gallery (2010).

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