Unlearning is an exhibition and project about losing knowledge, whether through erasure, amnesia, overwriting, disguising, reducing, ridiculing, hiding, covering, mimicking or undermining.
Performed on-site at
Goethe on Main as a growing installation, Unlearning investigates the
prospect of losing knowledge through practical application, staged
conversations and theoretical research.
As it stands, the exhibition uses makeshift plywood architecture, animal calls, fake rocks, and cut up narratives in an attempt to mark out a vocabulary as a territory.
As it stands, the exhibition uses makeshift plywood architecture, animal calls, fake rocks, and cut up narratives in an attempt to mark out a vocabulary as a territory.
Functioning as a kind of
staged research production, Unlearning uses the Goethe on Main space as open-ended arena to simulate ideas and to allow for
them to play out. The investigation is made manifest within the space
through the construction of sculptural props, the collaging of film, graphic
and textual fragments.
Used intermittently as a classroom, a stage, a laboratory and an office, the
installation will develop within the space as an adisciplinary, intertextual
bricolage.
Unlearning will feature
words, images and objects by Francis Burger, Pamella Dlungwana, Georgia Munnik
and others.
Special guest Mbali Mdluli will be rubbing things from Sunday 12 May, 2012.
Public opening: Sunday, 12 May, 11:00-16:00 (drinks will be served from 14:00).
A closing event will be hosted on Sunday 19 May at 14:00
Goethe on Main
245, Main St
City & Suburban
Johannesburg
A closing event will be hosted on Sunday 19 May at 14:00
Goethe on Main
245, Main St
City & Suburban
Johannesburg
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