CUSS webisode II Joburg

Stills from the CUSS Joburg webisode, screened at the IPP closing. Watch the full video on the CUSS website. (Vimeo url:  http://vimeo.com/41075772).

CUSS webisode shoot in the auditorium

Behind the scenes stills from CUSS and collaborator's webisode shoot in the Goethe Institut auditorium...

The Independent Publishing Project at the Goethe-Institut Library 15 March - 26 April 2012

A second public iteration of the Independent Publishing Project, produced in partnership with the Goethe-Institut South Africa*, will be running at the Goethe-Institut library on Jan Smuts avenue from the 15th of March until the 26th of April.

Begun in 2011, the IPP is a research initiative aimed at gathering people and objects around the idea of self or small-scale publishing in a South African context.

Focusing on collaboration and conversation among contemporary practitioners the exhibition will feature a select reading room and a working studio. Guest participants to occupy the space include Josh Ginsburg, Rangoato Hlasane, Mark Kannemeyer, CUSS (Ravi Govender, Jamal Nxedlana, Nikki Comninos and Zamani Xolo), and Sebastian Borckenhagen, amongst others.

The project will develop within the space over six weeks, culminating with a combined event showcasing new works, an IPP broadsheet and the screening of CUSS’s Johannesburg focused webisode (see the Durban version here). The event will take place on the 24th of April at 18:30 at the Goethe-Institut.

A small introductory gathering for participants and others interested in the project will be held on the 15th of March at 18:30.

The exhibition run will be dotted with two-day intensive workshops run by the facilitators and artist participants. We'll start publicizing workshop      and other event info from the 26th of March, 2012.

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* Goethe-Institut Johannesburg:

 119 Jan Smuts Ave (entrance on New Port Road), Parkwood 2193,

 +27 11 4423232

Gallery hours**

Monday - Thursdays 09:00-13:00; 14:00-18:00; Fridays 09:00 - 14:30; 

Saturdays by appointment (email independentpublishingproject@gmail.com)

** Restricted viewing times may be imposed on the reading room from the 26th of March and will be announced here so please check back before visiting the space

Events of the final week of the IPP at blank projects

A quick provisional rundown of events planned for the upcoming week.

On Tuesday 27 September at 14:00 Clive Kellner will be in conversation with the IPP on the history of the Camouflage gallery (1991-2001) and his experience of independence and agency within the landscape of contemporary art in South Africa.

Magazines by CUSS produced in collaboration with students from the WITS school of Fine Arts will be available as take-aways at Blank from Wednesday 28th September.

Another two informal conversations will be hosted on Friday 30th, the first at 11:00 with Kathryn Smith, artist and founder of serialworks, on independent strategies and making the conditions to make in, and the second at 14:30 with Andy Mason, comic artist and educator, on various topics that emerge around his extensive collection of South African comics.

A selection from Andy Mason's collection.

And finally, on Saturday the 1st of October the IPP will close with participant's and facilitators in conversation on anything and everything about self and independent publishing, and about the IPP itself... Join us to listen or pitch in, or afterwards for a drink (conversation 11:00-13:00, closing from 13:00 onwards, gallery closes at 15:00).