Jo'burg art picks: February 3 2012
February 10 marks the opening of The Courage of ||kabbo: from landscape to literature, an exhibition curated by Pippa Skotnes.
The exhibition marks a century since the publication of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd’s first book on Bushman culture, Specimens of Bushman Folklore, a realisation of this legendary couple’s lifetime study of |Xam and !Kung Bushman languages of Southern Africa.
The book has come to be regarded as seminal to the study of the Bushmen, or San, and has been the source of much work by artist and professor Pippa Skotnes. Now Skotnes has curated this exhibition that displays photographs, original texts, notebooks, newspaper reviews and maps honouring Bleek and Lloyd’s vision and the courage of their |Xam teacher, ||Kabbo.
The Gallery, Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand West Campus, Enoch Sontonga Avenue, Braamfontein, from February 10 to April 10. Open Mondays to Fridays and on Saturday mornings. Public walkabouts will take place at 10am on February 18 and March 17. Bookings for the walkabouts can be made by email to ask@origins.org.za and tickets are R50 a
person. Tel: 011 717 4700.
