Organized
by: John Hitchcock, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United
States of America and Dominic Thorburn, Rhodes University,
School of Fine Art, Grahamstown, South Africa.
This cross-cultural international print exchange includes
artists who explore issues related to land, investigate
issues of identity, and comment on historical perspectives.
Participating artists addressed how landscape (actual,
political, social, visual, representational, or nonrepresentational)
and culture shapes a persons' artistic viewpoint. Both
countries have difficult historical connections with colonization.
This international exchange has established collaboration
between print communities in South Africa and North America
by artists who come from diverse cultural backgrounds
and speak about the complexity of community. Using the
print medium with its long history of commenting on social
and political issues, the artists explore their relationships
to community, land, and culture in regards to their respective
countries. The artists exchange perspectives about lands
that are strikingly beautiful on the surface, but have
ties to social and political injustice.
A
total of sixteen artist (eight from each country) created
a series of prints to be exchanged between all the participants
and exhibited in each country.
The
North American representatives for the print exchange
are: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Melanie Yazzie, Edgar Heap
of Birds, Dread Scott, Keith Christensen, Barbara Madsen,
Anthony Deiter, and John Hitchcock.
The
South African artist represented include: Jan
Jordaan, Nontobeko Ntombela, Nyaniso Lindi, Cindy Dardagan,
Christine Dixie, Thando Mama, Gabisile Nkosi, and Dominic
Thorburn.
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