SOBER & LONELY INSTITUTE /
FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
FEATURED PROJECT
MAY 2011
Javier Hinojosa
EPHEMERAL TRAPS PERMANENT CONSEQUENCES (The Collective, Durban)
FEATURED PROJECT
APRIL 2011
Miet Warlop
SPRINGVILLE (Outlet, Johannesburg)
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FEATURED PROJECT
JULY 2011
Hedwig Houben
A SHORT EXPLANATION OF MY ARTISTIC PRACTICE (Outlet, Johannesburg)
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Read more about Hedwig here
SUBURBAN RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
JULY 2011
Robyn Nesbitt & Nina Barnett
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ARE WE NEAR THE ISLAND? THE ISLAND - IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL IT? (Outlet, Johannesburg)
AFTER A GREAT DEAL OF THOUGHT
AND PLANNING, S&L IS BORN
1 APRIL 2011
SUBURBAN RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
JULY 2011
Dineo Seshee Bopape
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Click here to see more about Dineo's show LEŠOBANA!! LEŠOBANA! LEŠOBANA!! (LE BULEGILE); LEŠOBANA! LEŠOBANA! LEŠOBANA!! (GO PHUNYEGILE)
SUBURBAN RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
AUGUST 2011
Francis Burger
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FEATURED PROJECT
JULY to NOVEMBER 2011
James Webb, Jim Skuldt, Noor Nuyten, Greg Streak, Vaughn Sadie, Audrey Cottin, Dave Sherry, Pierre Bismuth, Robyn Nesbitt & Nina Barnett, Anne Schiffer, Niklaus Ruegg, Liza Corsillo, Simon Gush & Ruth Sacks, Liezel Prins, Bronwyn Lace & Marcus Neustetter, Emi Kodama, Sarah Gerats
OH MY OH MY: FROM THE ANNALS OF A GREAT TELEPATHIC AFFAIR
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24 HOUR SUBURBAN RESIDENCY
JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2012
Kidu & Tallulah James, The Open Drawer Project, Anthea Moys & Amy Watson, Bianca Baldi, Portia Malatjie and Georgia Munnik & Ndaxalo Nkalashe
FEATURED PROJECT
FEBRUARY 2012
Lester Adams
THE INTERNET IS MADE OF CATS
SUBURBAN RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
NOVEMBER 2011
Josh and Jared Ginsburg, Francis Burger and Kyle Morland
Click here to see documentation from 'An evening of projection, video and gazpacho'
FEATURED PROJECT
SEPTEMBER 2011
James Webb SPECTRE
In this unadvertised intervention at the FNB Joburg Art Fair, a volunteer concealed a powerful, portable cellular phone jammer on their person and walked through the fair cancelling reception within a roving 20m radius.
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Image: Intervention view of Tate Modern director, Chris Dercon, looking for phone signal at the Art Fair (image courtesy Anthea Buys)
WINTER RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
JUNE 2012
'If A Tree...' resident artists and objects (including a big black ball, a curator that
cooks and a Spanish artist who digs) with Antonis Pittas, Emilio Moreno and Clare Butcher
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Click here to read about 'If a Tree' at the Stevenson Gallery
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Click here to read about Antonis on the steps of the JAG
Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Black Ball in Newtown, Johannesburg, 2012. Image by Emilio Moreno
THE INAUGURAL SOBER & LONELY SYNCHRONISED
RUNNING CLUB RUN
AUGUST 2012
Sober & Lonely Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, SA / Synchronised Run departure 15h13 and Machine Project, Los Angeles, USA / Synchronised Run departure 06h13,
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Image by Han Salzmann
FEATURED PROJECT
JUNE to AUGUST 2012
Teemu Räsänen, Dave Sherry, Daphne Rink, Cetusss, Jon Bernad, Sonya Masinovsky,
Dineo Seshee Bopape
For Karl Krall: A Quantifiable Experiment In Telepathic Thought Transferal
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FEATURED PROJECT
OCTOBER 2011 to FEBRUARY 2012
Sober & Lonely and Audrey Cottin
TELEPATHIC CROWD
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SOBER & LONELY SIESTA
SEPTEMBER 2012
During the FNB Joburg Art Fair 7/8/9 September, the Suburban Residency (situated a 6 minute drive from the Sandton Convention Centre) was opened up to gallerists, curators, artists and Fair visitors needing a power nap / tea break / fresh air in the afternoons. Ample floor space, blankets, pillows and tea were provided from 2pm - 6pm each day that the Fair is open.
SOBER & LONELY APRIL 2011 to APRIL 2012 ANNUAL LAUNCH
SEPTEMBER 2012
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Click here to see documentation from the launch at the Parking Gallery
FEATURED PROJECT / ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
NOG 'N PIEP
NOVEMBER 2012
Christian Nerf
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DINNER / SUPPER
NOVEMBER 2012
Anthea Moys & Jonathan Cane
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24 HOUR SUBURBAN RESIDENCY
SOIL MATES - GENNA GARDINI
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FEATURED PROJECT
Abri De Swardt, Annelies Propstra, Audrey Anderson, Audrey Cottin, Bas Schevers, Brian Briggs, Christian Nerf, Dave Sherry, Francis Burger, Genna Gardini, Georgia Munnik, Ginsburg, Morland & Ginsburg, Jon Bernad, Julian Redpath, Laura Copelin, Lester Adams, Machine Project, New Capital, Noor Nuyten, Phillip Johnson & Gareth Lloyd, Pieter Verwey, Pietmondriaan.com (Michiel Huijben & Simon Kentgens with Diana Duta), Pop Soda (Jimmy Fusil & Mike Wait), Sonya Masinovsky, Victoria Wigzell
AN EXPERIMENT TO TEST THE DESTINY OF THE WORLD at ITHUBA GALLERY, BRAAMFONTEIN
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24 HOUR RESIDENCY PROGRAMME AND 'DAG VAN KUNST' - KUNSTHUIS SYB
Ferdi Speelman & Laura Bolscher, Manon Maring and Anne Dersen.
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Sober & Lonely House Tour (A Retrospective)
This short video is an homage to the big house in the suburbs that housed SLICA and a lot of nice guests from March 2011 - January 2013. Julian edited and narrated the video, and was a VIP guest in the house.
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The Transcontinental Express
Curated by Lot van Gelder and Clare Butcher at Museum Perron Oost, Amsterdam
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The Nancy Holt Teleportation Device
In collaboration with guide Simon Fidelis at GoetheOnMain
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Click here to read more about the Strata Project
FUTURES
FUTURES on 1 April 2014 was the first event at the new S&L space in Melville. Dr Richard Jenks gave a lecture presentation on post-humanism and Barrie Bramley spoke on the future of work. D.Ann gave individual palm readings. Julian Redpath performed three songs in the bedroom, accompanied by Clare Vandeleur on cello and Daniel Kaplan on trumpet. Megan Pringle prepared small delicious food and served it from the caravan. Keith McAdam home-brewed an Indian Pale Ale especially for the opening of the new space.
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Journal d'un voyage utopique
Murray Kruger
Artshakes residency, paper auction & recipe book launch
SmallSips (Karin Tan & Skye Quadling)
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Imaginary Appetites
James Webb
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A viewing of the moon
Robyn Nesbitt
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The Unfailing Table
Anna Romanenko & Björn Kühn
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Non Sights and Tasty Ceilings
with Anna Astrand
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2014 Year End Function
with Jon Bernad, Nina Barnett, Robyn Nesbitt and Apichaya Wanthiang, Phillip Raiford Johnson, Smallsips, Keith 'Pasta Machine' McAdam, and Dayon Fourie
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