An exhibition in Japan making it onto the Cape listings? Stranger things have happened.
? Art exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris don’t generally make it on to the Cape Town listings. But Cape Town-based artist James Webb’s project, Telephone Voice, is an exception. Curated by Rahma Khazam, Palais de Tokyo makes a regular monthly audio presentation and Webb’s work will be online, so people back home can listen in. Webb’s long-standing love affair with spectral art and radio as a mediUM resurrects American film and radio legend Orson Welles.
Like Webb, Welles was an eccentric, noted for his innovative creative technique and a distinctive personality. So what would he have to say to today’s generation? Telephone Voice reveals all — he returns from the dead to speak to the future.
Until August 31. To hear the work online visit: www.palaisdetokyo.com.
? Group exhibition Process This provides an all-too-rare opportunity for the Michaelis Art School to interact and trade notes with its contemporaries from Wits University. Comprising works by Wits second-year masters’ students, the exhibition focuses on the fluid relationship between research and the final art work. It poses important questions about the boundaries between art and institution, private and public space and intimacy and distancing.
Michaelis Gallery, Hiddingh Campus, 32 – 37 Orange Street, Gardens, until August 10.