marcus neustetter
2009 > selection since 01/2008
In collaboration with Bronwyn Lace.
Bringing in 2009’s International year of Astronomy together with the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, artists Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter
launched their project with experimental interventions during the night of New Year’s Eve 2008.
These interventions on the evening of 31st December were a precursor for the following two weeks of activities that resulted in a land-art and kite flying spectacle up to and on the 14th January 2009.
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2009 > selection since 01/2008
Although Marcus Neustetter’s solo exhibition at Art on Paper Gallery invokes processes of mapmaking - representing space by drawing it in two dimensions on a map - it is not about conventional cartography. Rather, he introduces the element of motion into the mapmaking process, intimating the aspect of time in the exploration of geographical space. In fact, Neustetter’s art is about finding a method of referring to our experience of the coalescence of space and time.
On the last evening of Marcus Neustetter’s ascent of Kilimanjaro in December 2006 the night was so clear that the lights of the city of Moshi at the foot of the mountain seemed to be reflected in the stars in the sky above. The sky could as well have been a map of the landscape below. Neustetter generated digital maps of these reflections exploring the structural similarities of various spaces at specific times. In another, related series of work, Neustetter traces motion through space by holding a pen loosely in his hand while flying in a plane over various parts of South Africa.
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2009 > selection since 01/2008
In collaboration with David Andrew, the C30 Project initiative began in early 2007 at the P.J. Simelane Secondary School in Dobsonville, Soweto, and has resulted in a series of creative interventions within the school space itself and then at the Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg (October 2007), the Goethe Institut, Johannesburg (October 2008) and in the White Sea space at Konstfack Stockholm (March 2009) . At the school and in the exhibition spaces the project introduced a series of physical and metaphorical disruptions which prompted questions and actions around the relationship between learning and art practice.
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