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  • ... across mapped geography and into new artistic territory for Kentridge, but one in which the mechanism of drawing and the power of shadows remain central to his representations of a world in transition. (Source: Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art)
  • Haunted Media -
    ... with the paranormal. The development of telegraph & wireless allowed users to hear voices from the ether and had the power to disperse body & consciousness across the universe in the same way that the internet is seen to have done more recently –...
  • William Kentridge -
    ... Kentridge's perspective illuminates our understanding of how the system affected those who occupied positions of relative power under it. But Kentridge's art is more than a commentary on apartheid. It is about what takes place when people go about their...
  • ... of ‘seeing’, or to uncover the pathology of colonialism from within the Enlightenment as he travels back through history. His powerful works—backed by his vast knowledge in history, literature, cinema, theatre, and music, as well as his extremely sharp...
  • Sydney Festival -
    ...Event: Sydney FestivalInstitution: Powerhouse MuseumComment:
  • ... colonialism, Kentridge often imbues his art with dreamy, lyrical undertones or comedic bits of self-deprecation, making his powerful messages both alluring and ambivalent. Perhaps best known for his stop-motion films of charcoal drawings, the...
  • ...Event: Sommerer, Christa, Lecture at Interaction: Systems, Practice and Theory Symposium, University of Technology, Sydney and Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (Australia), Nov 2004Institution: University of Technology Sydney (UTS)Comment:
  • ... digital age. The often ironic game in which different media are remixed has become popular fun, thanks to broad access to powerful computers. This way, an individual product is added to or juxtaposed against the apparent chaos of the overly complex world...
  • ...The daily meal is a powerful human institution and the family dinner table a site where food and home meld into an ‘intimate place’ of nurture. But, in times when climate change jeopardizes food security the question of ‘what will we eat in the future?’ has become...