Exhibitions & Projects at ROOM

ROOM is a young independent multi-disciplinary exhibition and project based space focused on collaboration, interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange.

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🌹$TRE$$ FACTOR 2K15🌹 still from OPEN🌐TIME #FAKA style video for the floating reverie digital residency in Feb

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Reminder Today >> Part 3 :Right of Admission, Friday 10.10.2014, from 4.30 pm at ROOM

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Rights of admission

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Right of Admission

ROOM presents

a project and a series of performative interventions by 

FARIEDA NAZIER AND ALBERTA WHITTLE

03.10 – 11.10.2014

In a series of performative actions the artists Farieda Nazier and Alberta Whittle will contest the visible and invisible boundaries in Johannesburg. Using the physicality of the body and its appearance as markers for access, identity, this performance functions as an intervention intended to challenge the “accepted narrative, which insists on an economic and social hierarchy of pilgrimage and aspiration".

Performances will take place on the following dates:

Opening Reception & Performance (part 1): Friday, 3 October 2014 from 16h30 Performance (part 2): Saturday, 4 October 2014 from 10h00 - 16h00 at ROOM Performance (part 3): Carpet Series Episode # 5: Friday, 10.10.2014, from 16h30 at ROOM Performance & Closing Party (part 4): Saturday, 11 October 2014 from 10h00 - 16h00 at ROOM

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Dusk. #rightsofadmission #test #shade

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Rights. #rightsofadmission #hair #penciltest

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Let the platting begin!

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ROOM presents:

DEAN HUTTON

At the 2014 Edition of the FNB Joburg Art Fair, A body of work titled

Dean's Bed

Booth 12

22 - 24.08.2014

FNB Joburg Art Fair

Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg

Dean's Bed is Love, intimacy, dreams, longing, conceit, queer, identity, authenticity and beauty. 

It is made with people, not of subjects - Chosen family, old friends, new friends, artists. Working, playing, with the participants to reveal, but not capture, ultimate expressions of self… a naked… bare self that holds agency. Shifting photographer to participant, creating relationships and abandoning distance. Making Love. 

Like much of the artist's work, this series of intimate portraits challenges what is "normal" outside of binary concepts of gender, embracing fluidity and a comfortable expression of difference.  

Alongside the selected  large scale photographs, ROOM in association with Dean Hutton will also launch an exclusive collection of limited edition prints of the entire body of work.

Dean Hutton (b. 1976, ZA) is a genderqueer photojournalist and artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. Ongoing concerns include: Portraiture as co-authorship, Social media as narrative, Technology as self-reflection, Private narratives, Public conceits & Queer identity as Body of Work.

For more information on the artist and her work visit : http://www.2point8.co.za/

FNB Joburg Art Fair Opening Hours:

Friday 11am - 8pm

Saturday 10am - 7pm

Sunday 10am - 5pm

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A List for Remembering: Cataloging of curious coincidences is an ongoing series of studio light observations which started in Switzerland while on residency at PROGR in 2013. These and new studies will be added to the collection for the duration of the exhibition at ROOM, exploring the notion of light in the visible and invisible documentation of everyday studio process and practice.  Experiments are left ongoing, works exist in process and are protected under constant observation - the marking and acknowledging of time and the depiction of that action.

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ROOM presents an exhibition of new photographic works by

MACK MAGAGANE

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HERE

14.03 – 19.04.2014

Opening Reception, Friday 14 March 2014 from 6.30 pm at ROOM Gallery/Projects, Space #4, 70 Juta Precinct, Braamfontein, Johannesburg

Carpet Series: Date To be announced at ROOM

Exhibition Duration: 14.03.2014 – 19.04.2014

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GOBOT visited us this morning…much cooler than any robot suit we ever made

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JewJew arriving a week before (co)production opens. Image Nadine Hutton

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(CO)PRODUCTION An exhibition of photographic, video and performance based works by MYER TAUB 
The exhibition explores the role of history, memory, the archive as repository of experience, the positioning of the perfomative in a non-theatrical environment and the role of collaboration in the production of work. The presentation also investigates the artist’s attempts to foster a dialogue of co-currency and co-productivity between the urban terrains he currently occupies, that of Tshwane and Johannesburg. Opening: Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 18h00 Exhibition runs from 10 April - 4 May 2013, with scheduled performances on Wednesday 10, 17 & 24 April from 09h00 - 18h00 The exhibition was made possible with the support of University of Pretoria, Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) and ROOM DISCLAIMER: Exhibition and performances contain nudity. Parents should exercise discretion.