15.01.2012, Mary Corrigall
20.09.2011, LitNet
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
It was cheeky, even slightly provocative, of the Goethe Institut to organise an event that dealt with trauma, that bookended 9/11, but that did not have a single mention of the destruction of New York’s Twin Towers. Instead, the five-day Über(w)unden conference (Johannesburg, 7–11 September) presented artists, writers and activists from Sudan, DRC, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Europe who discussed ways in which art can deal with trauma in countries that have experienced extreme conflicts.
18.09.2011, Sunday Independent
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
When Pesa asked me to participate in his new work for the Goethe Institut’s über(W)unden – Art in Troubled Times programme that would also be part of New Dance 2011, I didn’t hesitate. I had been here before. Or so I thought.
14.09.2011, The Star
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
“The history of that country is inscribed in my flesh,” explained dancer-choreographer extraordinaire, Faustin Linyekula, to delegates of the Goethe-Institut’s über(W)unden – Art in Troubled Times conference in Joburg.
12.09.2011, Deutschlandfunk
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
„über(W)unden / art in troubled times“ – a conference of the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg about art and trauma in Africa (Dagmar Wittek).
08.09.2011, Deutschlandradio Kultur
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
In the South African industrial metropolis Johannesburg, the Goethe-Institut currently hosts the conference “über(W)unden”. Artists, activists, therapists and scientists talk about artist’s wounds, which traumatic events have left behind.
02.09.2011, Business and Arts South Africa
Arts Award
Germany’s Goethe-Institut was presented with the new Diplomacy in the Arts Award given in recognition of Foreign Missions who contribute to the development and preservation of the arts in South Africa.
04.05.2011, Art South Africa
Harare Files at GoetheonMain
Fresh from the Harare International Festival of the Arts – HIFA 2011, the Goethe-Institut presents three shows of the one man play “Harare Files” at GoetheonMain on 5, 6 and 7 May at 6.30pm. As always at GoetheonMain, there is no cover charge.
25.07.2011, Mail & Guardian online
Going Southwood on the N1 at the Goethe-Institut
As a catalogue of time, the tangential points of a trip are immortalised and assigned a significance, however minute, by the direction of the photographer's lens. Dave Southwood's latest exhibition, N1, at the Goethe-Institut on Jan Smuts Avenue, is a good example. Using a trip on the N1 as a reason to take pictures that parallel the journey, Southwood investigates the surfaces and textures of the classic road trip.
04.05.2011, Art South Africa
Harare Files at GoetheonMain
Fresh from the Harare International Festival of the Arts – HIFA 2011, the Goethe-Institut presents three shows of the one man play “Harare Files” at GoetheonMain on 5, 6 and 7 May at 6.30pm. As always at GoetheonMain, there is no cover charge.
26.04.2011, Der neue Wiesentbote
Exhibition “Afropolis – Stadt, Medien, Kunst” in Bayreuth
From April 28th to September 4th in 2011 the Iwalewa Haus, University of Bayreuth’s forum for African contemporary art, presents the exhibition ‘Afropolis- Stadt, Medien, Kunst’ (Afropolis-City, Media, Art). […] The Exhibition ‘Afropolis-Stadt, Medien, Kunst’ is bilingual (German and English). It evolved from the cooperation of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Muesum Cologne and the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg and Nairobi. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pinther, Dr. Larissa Förster and Christian Hanussek curated the project. It was supported by the ‘Kulturstiftung des Bundes’.
20.02.2011, The Sunday Indepedent
Jacques Coetzer reflects on the futility of art
This is an outstanding show that is both humorous and tragic. Though the conclusions that he draws might appear bleak – apropos the futility of art – the novel form of expression he embraces presents new ways of conceiving of the art product. Coetzer’s refreshing approach, engagement with the epistemological impact of the internet and the relationship between text, ideas and imagery make this exhibition an invigorating experience.
15.02.2011, Badische Zeitung
This carefreeness breathes freedom:
Macras shows in the Stadttheater Freiburg her South African choreography "Offside Rules”
At the end of the piece, the house is raging. Well, whatever raging is in Freiburg. After all, the Company of the Argentinian choreographer has brought the audience into an enthusiastic rhythmic resonance in a packed auditorium of the theatre. With incredibly simple terms: with percussion instruments, drums and a capella singing - nothing more: no sound, no music. It was mainly the great actors who thrilled the audience.
New Adventures by Jacques Coetzer (Goethe Institut in Joburg) Coetzer might have proved that goats do not make ideal audience members for a guitar solo, and amused viewers with images of himself dressed up as Elvis while strumming a guitar on a beach in Zanzibar, but this flippant and self-deprecating exhibition parodying the status of the artist (and art) was extraordinary for the fact that it made the act of art-making transparent.
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
It was cheeky, even slightly provocative, of the Goethe Institut to organise an event that dealt with trauma, that bookended 9/11, but that did not have a single mention of the destruction of New York’s Twin Towers. Instead, the five-day Über(w)unden conference (Johannesburg, 7–11 September) presented artists, writers and activists from Sudan, DRC, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Europe who discussed ways in which art can deal with trauma in countries that have experienced extreme conflicts.
18.09.2011, Sunday Independent
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
When Pesa asked me to participate in his new work for the Goethe Institut’s über(W)unden – Art in Troubled Times programme that would also be part of New Dance 2011, I didn’t hesitate. I had been here before. Or so I thought.
14.09.2011, The Star
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
“The history of that country is inscribed in my flesh,” explained dancer-choreographer extraordinaire, Faustin Linyekula, to delegates of the Goethe-Institut’s über(W)unden – Art in Troubled Times conference in Joburg.
12.09.2011, Deutschlandfunk
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
„über(W)unden / art in troubled times“ – a conference of the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg about art and trauma in Africa (Dagmar Wittek).
08.09.2011, Deutschlandradio Kultur
Über(W)unden at the Goethe-Institut
In the South African industrial metropolis Johannesburg, the Goethe-Institut currently hosts the conference “über(W)unden”. Artists, activists, therapists and scientists talk about artist’s wounds, which traumatic events have left behind.
02.09.2011, Business and Arts South Africa
Arts Award
Germany’s Goethe-Institut was presented with the new Diplomacy in the Arts Award given in recognition of Foreign Missions who contribute to the development and preservation of the arts in South Africa.
04.05.2011, Art South Africa
Harare Files at GoetheonMain
Fresh from the Harare International Festival of the Arts – HIFA 2011, the Goethe-Institut presents three shows of the one man play “Harare Files” at GoetheonMain on 5, 6 and 7 May at 6.30pm. As always at GoetheonMain, there is no cover charge.
25.07.2011, Mail & Guardian online
Going Southwood on the N1 at the Goethe-Institut
As a catalogue of time, the tangential points of a trip are immortalised and assigned a significance, however minute, by the direction of the photographer's lens. Dave Southwood's latest exhibition, N1, at the Goethe-Institut on Jan Smuts Avenue, is a good example. Using a trip on the N1 as a reason to take pictures that parallel the journey, Southwood investigates the surfaces and textures of the classic road trip.
04.05.2011, Art South Africa
Harare Files at GoetheonMain
Fresh from the Harare International Festival of the Arts – HIFA 2011, the Goethe-Institut presents three shows of the one man play “Harare Files” at GoetheonMain on 5, 6 and 7 May at 6.30pm. As always at GoetheonMain, there is no cover charge.
26.04.2011, Der neue Wiesentbote
Exhibition “Afropolis – Stadt, Medien, Kunst” in Bayreuth
From April 28th to September 4th in 2011 the Iwalewa Haus, University of Bayreuth’s forum for African contemporary art, presents the exhibition ‘Afropolis- Stadt, Medien, Kunst’ (Afropolis-City, Media, Art). […] The Exhibition ‘Afropolis-Stadt, Medien, Kunst’ is bilingual (German and English). It evolved from the cooperation of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Muesum Cologne and the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg and Nairobi. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pinther, Dr. Larissa Förster and Christian Hanussek curated the project. It was supported by the ‘Kulturstiftung des Bundes’.
20.02.2011, The Sunday Indepedent
Jacques Coetzer reflects on the futility of art
This is an outstanding show that is both humorous and tragic. Though the conclusions that he draws might appear bleak – apropos the futility of art – the novel form of expression he embraces presents new ways of conceiving of the art product. Coetzer’s refreshing approach, engagement with the epistemological impact of the internet and the relationship between text, ideas and imagery make this exhibition an invigorating experience.
15.02.2011, Badische Zeitung
This carefreeness breathes freedom:
Macras shows in the Stadttheater Freiburg her South African choreography "Offside Rules”
At the end of the piece, the house is raging. Well, whatever raging is in Freiburg. After all, the Company of the Argentinian choreographer has brought the audience into an enthusiastic rhythmic resonance in a packed auditorium of the theatre. With incredibly simple terms: with percussion instruments, drums and a capella singing - nothing more: no sound, no music. It was mainly the great actors who thrilled the audience.
