Current Exhibitions
Image: Ismail Farouk, Eviction Carnage (Johannesburg), 2008
This on-line exhibition brings together artistic and critical projects that are establishing new imaginaries in cities undergoing rapid changes generated by globalization’s dynamics. The site examines the role of photography, video and web-based imagery in the context of rapidly changing social, economic and political circumstances. In this first version of the project’s website, sixteen artist pages present new manifestations of urban localities in five cities: Bangalore, Delhi, Durban, Johannesburg and Mumbai. The website also includes writings on each city as well as critical essays that develop theoretical and practical critiques of these multi-sited practices and their contexts.
The website will evolve, either as a single, constantly growing site or as a series of linked sites. It is intended to provide a platform for the presentation of artistic projects, as well as a conversational tool among participants, and a growing archive of projects that are submitted as the entire project evolves. The current site contains excerpts and documentation of the artist projects, as well as biographical information and links to other works. There is a bibliography, which will also evolve, and the site makes available a number of downloadable essays. A final component is a blog that will announce related projects as well as the project’s progress.
Click here for website: www.newurbanimaginaries.org
Upcoming Exhibitions
Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts
at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University
September 30 – November 14, 2009
This annual award and exhibition will showcase three emerging artists nominated by a jury of international art professionals. Based on practices that engage new ways of working within the mediums of painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, metals, glass and/or fibers, Temple Gallery’s exhibition will feature examples of the finalists’ work.
