Africa Biennale

AVANT CAR GUARD bury J.H.P. 'Kendell' Geers, 1967 - 1998
Dig to Europe
AVANT CAR GUARD dive into The South African art market
The Gay Black Jewish Artist
Ghosts in the Pretoria Art Museum

Africa Biennale

Triple AVANT CAR GUARD on the rocks
Untitled
AVANT CAR GUARD wants to make contemporary art a professionally run business, and this means diverse tasks
AVANT CAR GUARD receives funding from the World Art World for the Africa Biennale 2008
Stupid White Men

Images: Arrival

Barend de Wet's Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a residency swop with Studio Two Double Six Six. Situated on the banks of the scenic Bitou Rivier on the east coast- it's the blue house off the R340. Facilities include studio, beer, video cameras, DSTV (currently showing Anacondas), access to the internet and Tassies-Cathembas. Eddie Yang, his mentor Sebastian Charilaou, Ronan Coyle and Christian Nerf are in residency. Thus far, they've observed that other than unfrozen ice everything is OK. The Studio Two Double Six Six artists are dealing with phase 2 of the No Problem in Africa project . De Wet is currently working on his submission for the much-anticipated Hell Yeah show. Curator Doug Gimberg retorts: "Sometimes good people do bad things".

Images: Plant Harvesting

Images: Yo-Yo

Images: Honey

Images: Braai

Infest

May Day, celebrated in South Africa as Worker's Day, originates as a commemoration of the execution of the Haymarket martyrs who were arrested after the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred on May 4, but was the culmination of labor unrest which began on May 1. The date consequently became established as an anarchist and socialist holiday during the 20th century. Infest invited people to a momentary political movement, by taking a synchronised photograph outside parliament at 12 noon. Bizarrely, the Noon Day Gun was not fired.