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Juggling with the familiar II at the UCT African Studies Gallery. Juggling with the Familiar II : Exhibtion of Works in Progress is a show of wall works that centres a larger project at the Centre for African Studies Gallery, U.C.T. discussing the representation of the private in the public domain.

2 September to 18 December 

The Exhibition, curated by Siona O' Connell, deals with the ways in which these women percieve, interact with and represent prsonal and private topics of involvement for the public view. The exhibition brings together 1 mixed media and 5 photography projects in progress by South African female artists who utilise extreme subjectivity and intimacy within their methods and style in one way or another.

Ingrid Masondo uses her artist statement as well as a highly personalised rendition of colour to bring over a personal veneer to her photographs of the the Salt Makers at Lake Retba (Lac Rose) Senegal, while Tracey Derrick's selection from 10 years of photographing her daughters includes the blurring of fleeting moments of highly intimate privacies.

Sophia Claasens presents the familiar details of her family and self through intimate portraits in the private environment of their home in Paulshoek, Namilbia and Siona O' Connell explores the 'Archive of the Ordinary' where the seemingly banal and mundane become extraordinary when pinpointed and focussed upon.

Jenny Altschuler swings the pendulum between documentary and fantasy, giving in to the digital medium and its manipulatory facilities to deepen the experience of the familiy album as well as positioning the supplementary mother within the current family tree and the psyche of its past generations. Suzanne Duncan uses the discarded body matter, such as hair or nails, from her closest family members and lover to create intricately woven artifacts of love and associated memory.

Artists: Ingrid Masonda; Tracey Derrick; Suzanne Duncan; Sophia Claassens; Siona O'Connell and Jenny Altschuler. Opened: September 01 Closes: December 18 2010 Curiosity of The Familiar. A seminar programme co-ordinated by Jenny Altschuler at the Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT, to take up issues that are brought up in or related to the works on display in Juggling with the Familiar II : An Exhibition of Works in Progress. The exhibition, curated by Siona O’ Connell brings together the works of Ingrid Masonda; Tracey Derrick; Suzanne Duncan; Sophia Claasens; Siona O' Connell and Jenny Altschuler, artists who are in the process of creating highly subjective and intimate bodies of work.

Presentations: Centre For African Studies Gallery , Harry Oppenheimer Building Engineering Mall. U. C. T. Campus Tuesday 14 September 5pm - 7.30pm Long frocks in the darkroom: Notes on early women photographers in South Africa Pam Warne. Presentation identifies and highlights previously unacknowledged women who made significant contributions to the early development of photography in South Africa and paved the way for those who came after them. Private Lives/Public Eyes: Contemporary South African Photography and the Representation of the Personal -

Annabelle Wienand. Travelling Leica : photographic resonance across continents - Lien Botha A personal visual tour of photographic images - historic and contemporary - ranging from Fox Talbot, the curious case of Jacob A Rus, Nan Goldin's ballad of sexual dependency, Mariella Poli's silent return to the Savoy Hotel , the Moroccan photographers Yasmina Bouziane and Daoud Aoulad Syad to the home reality of Santu Mofokeng's lens. Zanele Muholi will lead a floor discussion around who speaks for whom and about turning the lens inwards towards ourselves before facing the Other. Moderator - Farzanah Badsha Saturday 02 October 12pm - 2 pm: Walkabout and Performances: The performance programme will include a Puppetry Piece by Masters candidate, Jill Joubert, (ex Handspring), which has evolved from its 1st performance for the Juggling with the Familiar show at CAS in 1995. See also the attachment for details.