Calendars:Fine Art Calendar/Fine Art Calendar/23-09-2024 -Event 2

In Focus: Nolan Oswald Dennis Monday 30 September, 13:00 - 15:00 Kunstinstituut Melly. 50 Witte de Withstraat

Nolan will be joining us for a special artist conversation, opening up the process and themes of their presentation at Kunstinstituut Melly that opens on September 20 & 21 as part of our new season with a significant focus on ‘improvisation’. This session will immerse in the exhibition, together with the artist, to contemplate the notion of ‘Reverse Archaeology’ as part of his new solo exhibition titled ‘geo-logics’. These topics investigate the contentious colonial heritage of technical and science museums, as well as a specific ‘collection' of gold remains from a grave site in South Africa known as the ‘Mapungubwe Complex’.

The artistic tactics that Nolan brings to bear range from sculpture (3D printing), structural poetry, and speculative documentary film-making. In short, 'Reverse Archaeology' denotes a refusal to treat the past as a resource to be extracted (from the earth). It is rather a tool to unearth the violences against memory and soil that produces knowledge as a rehearsal for a practice that will happen at another, unspecified, time.

To experience this work in advance, please be welcome to attend our two-day opening programs on Friday 20, and Saturday 21 September. These include a conversation between visiting artist Zara Julius and art historian Professor Tina M. Campt.

This program is open only to current MFA participants of the Piet Zwart Institute.

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