On Saturday, The AVA Gallery will be abuzz with two interventions relating to their current exhibitions.
Terry Kurgan and Alex Dodd’s highly visual presentation Checking in to Hotel Yeoville begins by looking at contemporary South African representations of alienation (including Rian Malan’s essay collection, Resident Alien, and Neil Blomkamp’s science fiction blockbuster film, District 9); reflect on the making of Hotel Yeoville as a collaboration with a hybrid mix of professionals from across the African continent and the globe; and conclude with a quest that seeks to “establish bonds of care across boundaries”.
Imraan Coovadia’s reading from his forthcoming novel Tales of the Metric System (to be published by Umuzi in 2015) will provide a special insight into the unfolding of the novelist’s working method and explore, in literary form, the theme of how friendships are formed across borders that exist in the mind and the body.
WHERE: AVA Gallery, 35 Church St, Cape Town 8001 WHEN: Sat 24 May from 11:00 to 13:00
PHOTO CREDIT: Nadine Hutton’s satirical video artwork, Alien Invasion [or] burning people is as South African as braaivleis (2009)
