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The Pandemic Project :: Lehlogonolo Mashaba

Breyten Odendaal

July 10, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today’s featured artist for the UJ Arts & Culture’s ‘The Pandemic Project’ is visual artist and printmaker Lehlogonolo Mashaba. His work, entitled Re-form XI, looks at the mysteries and complexities

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Mothers’ Grimm premieres at vNAF 2020

Breyten Odendaal

July 5, 2020

Mothers’ Grimm presented by Jade Bowers Design & Management in partnership with UJ Arts & Culture has been re-envisioned for the Curated Programme on the Virtual National Arts Festival 2020.

This

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The Pandemic Project :: Tanisha Bhana

Breyten Odendaal

June 25, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today’s featured artist for the UJ Arts & Culture’s ‘The Pandemic Project’, is visual artist Tanisha Bhana. Her work, When the Earth Sighed, delves into the introspective reality that “the

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UNFESTIVAL SA Extended

Breyten Odendaal

June 6, 2020

On 26 May 2020, UJ Arts & Culture’s UNFESTIVAL SA launched. As anticipated, audiences stayed away in their droves (which was partly the idea) … UNFESTIVAL SA has now been extended beyond the initial

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The Pandemic Project :: Yannis Generalis

Breyten Odendaal

June 5, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today’s featured artist for the UJ Arts & Culture’s ‘The Pandemic Project’, is visual artist Yannis Generalis. His work, entitled Prophylaxis (Greek: Protection), tackles the unseen, microscopic nature of the

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The Pandemic Project :: Sunnyboy Motau

Breyten Odendaal

June 1, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]UJ Arts & Culture’s featured artist for today’s The Pandemic Project is MIDM Professional dancer and choreographer Sunnyboy Motau in a moving piece that explores the juxtaposition of an imposed

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The Pandemic Project :: Khaya Ndlovu

Breyten Odendaal

May 29, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]29 May marks 5,443,200 seconds, 90,720 minutes, 1512 hours, 63 days, 9 weeks or 17.21% of 2020 since South Africa has been in lockdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Dancer and

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The Pandemic Project :: Strijdom van der Merwe – Past Lives

Breyten Odendaal

May 20, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The second artwork by land artist, Strijdom van der Merwe, titled Past Lives, for the UJ Arts & Culture’s The Pandemic Project, speaks of the earth as a complex layer

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The Pandemic Project :: Strijdom van der Merwe – Paths of Listening

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]UJ Arts & Culture’s featured artist for The Pandemic Project, is land artist Strijdom van der Merwe. His site-specific artwork ‘Paths of Listening’ focuses on an organic minimalist approach enticing

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UJ Arts & Culture respond to the Covid19 crisis with care and creativity

In March 2020, COVID19 forced galleries to close their doors and theatres to turn off the lights. Overnight events, performances and exhibitions were cancelled, planned work shelved and important revenue

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