Life of Bone

The Taung Fossil and Thre South African Artists

Joni Brenner, Elizabeth Burroughs, Karel Nel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2011
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-86814-539-3 (ISBN)

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Life of Bone brings into sharp relief, and interrogates, the abutting practices of the scientific and the artistic, practices which have co-existed since the beginning of our species. It's based on an exhibition, scheduled to open in May 2011 at the Origins Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand. This exhibition will display the original fossil skull of the Taung child hominid alongside artworks by Joni Brenner, Gerhard Marx and Karel Nel made specifically in response to these evolutionarily significant remains. This unique combination of paleoanthropological finds and art prompts a range of enquiries on the nature of both artistic and scientific disciplines, and encourages a dialogue between the very distant historic and the contemporary.

Joni Brenner, whose work has been in the field of portraiture, turned a few years ago to working from a human skull that she has in her studio, and from which she makes watercolor studies on an almost daily basis. ||| Karel Nel works with earth collected from specific regions or sites around the globe. He uses this matter to explore notions of deep time and the forensic information encoded within the formless substance.

Obsessions and impulses; history, ancestry, genes; being-craft; part of the story; of words and skulls; where do we come from? who are we? where are we going?; matter out of place; cartographer of consciousness

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2011
Verlagsort	Johannesburg
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	631 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10	1-86814-539-5 / 1868145395
ISBN-13	978-1-86814-539-3 / 9781868145393
Zustand	Neuware