Josh Ginsburg's On the Line is In was a collection of multimedia interactive sculptures that investigate the relationship between analytical and intuitive operations of mind…” (Josh Ginsburg, exhibition catalogue). The Remainder is a sound work that allows the viewer to listen to an intensified version of the current sound around them; the sound is at turns quite beautiful and eerie. Another work Pingpongbuddy is an interactive video work which allows two people to play a game of digital ping pong.
A similar work is Madeline Groenwald's Sound Per Form, an exhibition that deals with the interaction of art and sound. Madeline has created etchings as well as interactive hybrid musical instruments. Some sort of horn has been combined with fire bellows that when pushed creates a gaspy, wheezy sound, while another work that resembles the inside of piano allows the viewer to wind a handle on the side to play a giant xylophone contraption. “By way of a focus on corporality and movement, sound and sight, production and performance, the work is aimed towards an interlacing and fluctuation of music and art.” (Artists Statement)
The idea of portraiture is dealt by three artists in different and original ways. Ariane Questiaux has exhibited a series of posed family photographs that try and re-capture old family photographs. She assembles the same people in the same location and in exactly the same positions and re-captures the photo of them many years later. The old black and white photographs are juxtaposed with their contemporary colour copies and convey a feeling of progression and static-ness of time both personal and historical.
Shane Mark's Regression Towards the Mean is a series of digital prints that combine many faces from different category groupings to create an amalgamation of the different features and ultimately creates a new face and portrait. Shane also exhibits The Unsure Robot, a drawing machine that emulates a person's style of drawing to create a portrait of an amalgamation of the series of printed portraits.
Keelin Pincus's photographic exhibition SunEden captures portraits of people from a Naturist Colony in Gauteng. The portraits are all taken in quite a traditional way regarding the poses and backgrounds but are made un-ordinary as all the subjects are naked. Keelin's photographs in turn seems quite absurd and humorous as well as very raw and one cannot help but admire the subjects who seem to be so comfortable in their own skin.
This year's graduates seem to be a promising lot and I am sure the art world will be hearing more from some of these artists in the future.
