Symposium of the week: Dada South? Exploring Dada legacies in South African art, organized by exhibition curators Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith. Here are some (very) random quotes from speakers on the first day:
Thembinkosi Goniwe: Why is South Africa always trying to connect with Europe and jumping across the rest of Africa?
Marc Dachy: (Quoting from the poems of Tristan Tzara):
Gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori
gadjama gramma berida bimbala glandri
galassassa laulitalomini
Kemang Wa Lehulere: Is it not a failure of Dad to recognise African culture, taking a language in its own right?
Kendell Geers: I regard the art system as a global money laundering system.
Nina Romm: Kendell, in your presentation (of The History of Fuck, edited by Geers) why did you only show cunts and no cocks?
Kendell: Nina, Nina, Nina, (scanning furiously through images of spread legs and finally finding an erection shot) there are lots of images of cocks!
Nina: (later in the day, having asked the audience to come up and view photographs of her early student work which included photographs of her with a black penis attached) I want four people to say which work they think should have been included on the Dada South? show and wasn’t.
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There are no less than 45 dicks in the magazine, most of which are erect ! !
ReplyDeleteI was shocked during the Dada Conference that established artists like Nina Romm can be so mean and selfish and try to steal the attention for themselves ! ! Why is it that historically established artists like Nina Romm and now Sue Williamson are so unable to support and accept the efforts of the next generations ? Why do they fight so strongly to reduce, discredit and undermine exhibitions, magazines or books that they may not be included in ? It is these kind of left-over-from-Apartheid techniques of emotional insurgency that decimates South African efforts to place their artists on an international platform. It was precisely because of this kind of crap and arrogant self centered bitchiness that I left the country.
If you are going to quote me Sue, then get it right ! ! ! 45 Cocks between the covers ! ! !
kendell