In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, the Government of Rwanda implemented an innovative judicial mechanism to try accused perpetrators. Gacaca adapts an indigenous dispute resolution mechanism to the modern purpose of pursuing transitional justice. Based on research conducted in Rwanda, Professor Timothy Longman assesses the gacaca process and considers whether it could serve as a model for other countries emerging from conflict. Timothy Longman is associate professor of political science and Africana studies at Vassar College, where he has taught since 1996. In addition to his post at Vassar, he is a visiting lecturer in the International Human Rights Exchange at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. From 2001-2005, he served as a research fellow for the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, directing research on social reconstruction and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. He has served as a consultant in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo for USAID and the State Department, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and Human Rights Watch, for whom he served as director of the Rwanda field office 1995-1996. His current research looks at social reconstruction in the aftermath of violence, focusing on issues of justice, memory, and identity in post-genocide Rwanda. He has also conducted research in Congo, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa and is working on a major project looking comparatively at church-state relations throughout East and Central Africa. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reports, and is currently completing a book manuscript on Memory, Justice, and Power in Post-Genocide Rwanda.

Saturday 21 June Heat: Elite Coxless Fours 1: Imperial College 2: Oxford Brookes 3: Leander Heat: Senior 1 Eights 1: Agecroft 2: Henley RC 3: Eton College Heat: Senior 1 Eights 1: Durham University BC 2: Witwatersrand Univ 3: London RC Heat: Senior 1 Eights 1: Leander 2: Molesey BC 3: London RC Repechage: Junior Single Sculls 1: St Pauls School 2: Commercial RC, Ireland 3: Rob Roy

Receive Me Hillbrow is a short enthographic documentary of Hillbrow, a transitional degenerated residential area in the Johannesburg CBD South Africa. This film was compiled by Guy Ailion and Dana Fayman as a visual narrative into the subject of the role of the Church vs the Street as a reception for immagrants arriving in Hillbrow as part 1 of their Architectural B.A.S Honors degree at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The project attempts to identify the needs and social circumstances of new immagrants in the port-like suburb of Hillbrow, and identifies the possibilities of spirituality being a means to present an alternative presence on the streets to counter the overwealming lure into illegal trades by the vast drug-lord community in Hillbrow. Hillbrow was a vibrant cosmopolitan part of the city untill the late 1970's from which the ubran fabric began to dissmantle under badly managed buildings and lack of municipal foresight. Today Hillbrow is notoriously known as the most dangerous place in Johanneburg. Cast - Speakers: Reuben Ighodaro (Hillbrow resident) Moreen (Hillbrow landlord of Everest Apartments) Sama Nicholas (Independent Cameroonian pastor of the Abundant Life Mission) Father Shaun Von Lillienfeld (Priest of Christ the King Hillbrow Catholic Cathedral) Marvelous Malinga (General Secretary of Hlalanathi Community Theatre Projects) Gerard Shavatu (Jesuit Refugee Services National Director) Siko (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Winfred (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Bernard (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Allan (Independent Open Air spiritual counselor, Hillbrow) Special Thanks To Hugh Frasier Hannah Le Roux Music By Four Tet Thomas Newman Directed by Guy Ailion Dana Fayman

In this series from the CFAR National Symposium on HIV/AIDS Prevention & Transmission 2007, you will hear from experts from universities throughout the US and from South Africa, updating us on their latest research and findings. Join James McIntyre, MBChB, FRCOG, University of Witwatersrand, as he presents on Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV & Promoting Survival of Exposed Infants. Series: "CFAR, UCSD Center for AIDS Research " [2/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 13715]

Women at the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity features young South African students participating in Dr. Sheila Meintjes' Feminist Theory and Politics course at the University of Witwatersrand. Inspired by the themes revealed during the "Black Feminist Thought" seminar conducted by visiting lecturer Shatema Threadcraft, the documentary will demonstrate how this generation of women think about, negotiate and/or reinterpret their role in post millennial South African society. In highlighting the importance of democratic disagreement in a vibrant, engaged population gender, class, and ethnicity will be explored by an extraordinary group of individuals representing myriad socio-economic, ethnic and regional backgrounds.

Interpretiert: Ralf Buchmüller Record: Audacity Einige Fotos sind von Google Earth einige Fotos von mir selbst geschossen. Fox on the Run UK: 5 (1968) 12 Wo. US: 97 (1969) DE: 7 (1969) 13 Wo. Die Musik ist ursprünglich von: Manfred Mann (eigentlich Manfred Lubowitz; * 21. Oktober 1940 in Johannesburg) ist ein aus Südafrika stammender Musiker, der auch durch die von ihm gegründete Manfred Mann's Earth Band bekannt ist. In seiner Jugend lernte Manfred Mann Klavier spielen, trat als Jazzmusiker in Johannesburger Lokalen auf, nahm gemeinsam mit seinem Schulfreund Harry Miller zwei LPs der ersten südafrikanischen Rock 'n' Roll-Band The Vikings auf (1959 und 1961), die auch in die Charts gelangten, und studierte klassische Musik an der Witwatersrand-Universität. 1961 siedelte Manfred Mann mit Miller nach England um. Er betätigte sich dort als Jazzpianist und Musiklehrer und schrieb unter dem Pseudonym Manfred Manne Artikel, wobei er den Nachnamen des Schlagzeugers Shelly Manne benutzte. Später ließ er dann das „e" fallen und benutzte den Namen Manfred Mann für seine Auftritte. Mit dem Schlagzeuger Mike Hugg, mit dem er in einer Band zusammen spielte, gründete Manfred Mann 1962 die Mann Hugg Blues Brothers, die in der Londoner Klubszene erfolgreich war. Anfang 1963 schloss die Band, in der Manfred Mann Keyboard spielte, einen Vertrag mit dem Plattenlabel EMI. Dabei wurde, angeblich gegen den Willen Manfred Manns, der Name der Band in Manfred Mann geändert. 1966 verließ Sänger Paul Jones, dessen Talent an dem Erfolg der Band großen Anteil hatte, die Gruppe, um eine Solokarriere zu starten. Er wurde durch Mike d'Abo ersetzt, der nach Proben gegenüber Rod Stewart bevorzugt wurde. Weitere Mitglieder waren Tom McGuinness und Klaus Voormann. Die Band löste sich 1969 einvernehmlich auf, insbesondere weil einzelne Mitglieder andere Wege gehen wollten. Teile der alten Band blieben noch für Jahre als The Manfreds zusammen. Stilistisch im Jazz, Soul und Rhythm and Blues angesiedelt, produzierte die Band zahlreiche, vor allem in Großbritannien bekannte Hits wie „My Name is Jack", „Fox on the Run" und „Ha! Ha! Said the Clown". „Do Wah Diddy Diddy" wurde auch in den USA ein Nr.-1-Hit. Manfred Mann war aber auch bekannt für Cover-Versionen von Bob-Dylan-Songs, wie „If You Got To Go, Go Now", „Just Like a Woman" und „Mighty Quinn" und wurde von Bob Dylan selbst neben den Byrds als bester Interpret seiner Stücke bezeichnet. (Quelle:Wikipedia)

Rare footage of the increasing civil unrest and township violence that led to the government declaring a State of Emergency on 20 July 1985, giving it the power to deal with resistance to apartheid. More human rights were violated during this period than ever before. It became a criminal offence to threaten someone verbally or possess documents that the government perceived to be threatening. It was illegal to advise anyone to stay away from work or oppose the government. It was illegal, too, to disclose the name of anyone arrested under the State of Emergency until the government saw fit to release that name. People could face up to ten years' imprisonment for these offences. However, although the government increased its repressive measures, it was not enough to secure a lasting position in power. Then-President P.W. Botha declared the State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts. Areas affected were the Eastern Cape, and the PWV region ("Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Vereeniging"). Three months later the Western Cape was included as well. During this state of emergency about 2,436 people were detained under the Internal Security Act. This act gave police and the military sweeping powers. The government could implement curfews controlling the movement of people. The president could rule by decree without referring to the constitution or to parliament. Four days before the ten-year commemoration of the Soweto uprising, another state of emergency was declared on 12 June 1986 to cover the whole country. The government amended the Public Security Act, expanding its powers to include the right to declare certain places "unrest areas". This allowed the state to employ extraordinary measures to crush protests in these areas. Television cameras were banned from entering "unrest areas". The state broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) provided propaganda in support of the government. This version of reality was challenged by a range of pro-ANC alternative publications. In 1989, with the State of Emergency extended to a fourth year, Prime Minister Botha met Mandela and agreed to work for a peaceful solution to the conflict in the country. Talks commenced with the ANC, prominent business leaders, the Commonwealth and the Eminent Persons Group. The state of emergency continued until 1990, when F.W. de Klerk became the State President, and lifted the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid groups the African National Congress, the smaller Pan Africanist Congress and the South African Communist Party. He also made his first public commitment to release jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, returned to press freedom and suspend the death penalty. The rest is history...

Mandela's words, "The struggle is my life," are not to be taken lightly. Nelson Mandela personifies struggle. He is still leading the fight against apartheid with extraordinary vigour and resilience after spending nearly three decades of his life behind bars. He has sacrificed his private life and his youth for his people, and remains South Africa's best known and loved hero. Mandela has held numerous positions in the ANC: ANCYL secretary (1948); ANCYL president (1950); ANC Transvaal president (1952); deputy national president (1952) and ANC president (1991). He was born at Qunu, near Umtata on 18 July 1918. His father, Henry Mgadla Mandela, was chief councillor to Thembuland's acting paramount chief David Dalindyebo. When his father died, Mandela became the chief's ward and was groomed for the chieftainship. Mandela matriculated at Healdtown Methodist Boarding School and then started a BA degree at Fort Hare. As an SRC member he participated in a student strike and was expelled, along with the late Oliver Tambo, in 1940. He completed his degree by correspondence from Johannesburg, did articles of clerkship and enrolled for an LLB at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1944 he helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949. Mandela was elected national volunteer-in-chief of the 1952 Defiance Campaign. He travelled the country organising resistance to discriminatory legislation. He was given a suspended sentence for his part in the campaign. Shortly afterwards a banning order confined him to Johannesburg for six months. During this period he formulated the "M Plan", in terms of which ANC branches were broken down into underground cells. By 1952 Mandela and Tambo had opened the first black legal firm in the country, and Mandela was both Transvaal president of the ANC and deputy national president. A petition by the Transvaal Law Society to strike Mandela off the roll of attorneys was refused by the Supreme Court. In the 'fifties, after being forced through constant bannings to resign officially from the ANC, Mandela analysed the Bantustan policy as a political swindle. He predicted mass removals, political persecutions and police terror. For the second half of the 'fifties, he was one of the accused in the Treason Trial. With Duma Nokwe, he conducted the defence. When the ANC was banned after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, he was detained until 1961 when he went underground to lead a campaign for a new national convention. Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC, was born the same year. Under his leadership it launched a campaign of sabotage against government and economic installations. In 1962 Mandela left the country for military training in Algeria and to arrange training for other MK members. On his return he was arrested for leaving the country illegally and for incitement to strike. He conducted his own defence. He was convicted and jailed for five years in November 1962. While serving his sentence, he was charged, in the Rivonia trial, with sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment. A decade before being imprisoned, Mandela had spoken out against the introduction of Bantu Education, recommending that community activists "make every home, every shack or rickety structure a centre of learning". Robben Island, where he was imprisoned, became a centre for learning, and Mandela was a central figure in the organised political education classes. In prison Mandela never compromised his political principles and was always a source of strength for the other prisoners. During the 'seventies he refused the offer of a remission of sentence if he recognised Transkei and settled there. In the 'eighties he again rejected PW Botha's offer of freedom if he renounced violence. It is significant that shortly after his release on Sunday 11 February 1990, Mandela and his delegation agreed to the suspension of armed struggle. Mandela has honorary degrees from more than 50 international universities and is chancellor of the University of the North. He was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on 10 May 1994 - June 1999 Nelson Mandela retired from Public life in June 1999. He currently resides in his birth place - Qunu, Transkei.

Receive Me Hillbrow is a short enthographic documentary of Hillbrow, a transitional degenerated residential area in the Johannesburg CBD South Africa. This film was compiled by Guy Ailion and Dana Fayman as a visual narrative into the subject of the role of the Church vs the Street as a reception for immagrants arriving in Hillbrow as part 1 of their Architectural B.A.S Honors degree at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The project attempts to identify the needs and social circumstances of new immagrants in the port-like suburb of Hillbrow, and identifies the possibilities of spirituality being a means to present an alternative presence on the streets to counter the overwealming lure into illegal trades by the vast drug-lord community in Hillbrow. Hillbrow was a vibrant cosmopolitan part of the city untill the late 1970's from which the ubran fabric began to dissmantle under badly managed buildings and lack of municipal foresight. Today Hillbrow is notoriously known as the most dangerous place in Johanneburg. Cast - Speakers: Reuben Ighodaro (Hillbrow resident) Moreen (Hillbrow landlord of Everest Apartments) Sama Nicholas (Independent Cameroonian pastor of the Abundant Life Mission) Father Shaun Von Lillienfeld (Priest of Christ the King Hillbrow Catholic Cathedral) Marvelous Malinga (General Secretary of Hlalanathi Community Theatre Projects) Gerard Shavatu (Jesuit Refugee Services National Director) Siko (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Winfred (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Bernard (Independent Open Air spiritual counselors, Hillbrow) Allan (Independent Open Air spiritual counselor, Hillbrow) Special Thanks To Hugh Frasier Hannah Le Roux Music By Four Tet Thomas Newman Directed by Guy Ailion Dana Fayman

Pesquet's Parrots which hail from Papua New Guinea are seldom seen in captivity. This one is eating soil at a bird park in Malaysia. The video was sent to us by Dr Craig T. Symes of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. For more about Pesquet's Parrots, their ecology and conservation, please visit: http://www.parrots.org/index.php/encyclopedia/profile/pesquets_parrot/

Google Tech Talks September 8, 2008 ABSTRACT There is a great need for programs that can describe what people are doing from video. This is difficult to do, because it is hard to identify and track people in video sequences, because we have no canonical vocabulary for describing what people are doing, and because phenomena such as aspect and individual variation greatly affect the appearance of what people are doing. Recent work in kinematic tracking has produced methods that can report the kinematic configuration of the body fairly accurately and fully automatically. The problem of vocabulary is more difficult. I will discuss a generative activity model that allows activities to be assembled from a set of distinct spatial and temporal components. The models themselves are learned from labelled motion capture data and are assembled in a way that makes it possible to learn very complex finite automata without estimating large numbers of parameters. The advantage of such a model is that one can search videos for examples of activities specified with a simple query language, without possessing any example of the activity sought. In this case, aspect is dealt with by explicit 3D reasoning. An alternative strategy for dealing with aspect and individual variation is to build discriminative methods applied to appearance features. The difficulty here is that activities look different when seen from different directions. I will describe recent methods that make it possible to transfer models --- that is, to learn a model of an activity from one view, then recognize it in a completely different view. Speaker: David Forsyth David Forsyth holds a BSc and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and an MA and D.Phil from Oxford University. He is currently a full professor at U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, having served 10 years on the faculty at UC Berkeley. He has published over 100 papers on computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. He served as program co-chair for IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in 2000, general co-chair for CVPR 2006, program co-chair for ECCV 2008, and is a regular member of the program committee of all major international conferences on computer vision. He has received best paper awards at the International Conference on Computer Vision and at the European Conference on Computer Vision, and an IEEE Technical Achievement award. His recent textbook, "Computer Vision: A Modern Approach" (joint with J. Ponce and published by Prentice Hall) is now widely adopted as a course text.

FILM ANIMATION BY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE(b.1955) Animated films offer an emblematic and unprecedented insight into the South Africa of today, from the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to traces of apartheid's violence in the landscape around Johannesburg. The images in Kentridge's films depict political realities, expressed in terms of individual human suffering. They are patiently made up of dozens of drawings, often made from the erasure as well as the addition of lines and forms. ____________________________ William Kentridge nasceu em Johannesburgo, África do Sul, em 1955, e em 1976 graduou-se pela University of the Witwatersrand. Kentridge fez seu primeiro filme animado, Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris, em 1989. Ao longo de sua carreira, Kentrigde produziu obras em diversas técnicas, passando por filme, desenho e teatro, com projetos recentes freqüentemente integrando elementos de todas essas mídias e outras mais. Algumas das suas exposições selecionadas são: 1ª Bienal de Johannesburgo (1995); Bienal de Havana; Documenta X, em Kassel (1997); exposições individuais no The Drawing Center, Nova York (1998); The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1998); Project Room, Museum of Modern Art, Nova York e Serpentine Gallery (1999). Uma exposição retrospectiva dos seus trabalhos foi exibida pelo Palais des Beaux-Arts, em Bruxelas, seguindo para museus em Munique, Barcelona, Londres, Marselha e Graz (1998-1999). Recebeu a Carnegie Medal no Carnegie International (1999-2000) e a Goslar Kaisserring (2003), em reconhecimento à sua contribuição para a arte contemporânea. Seu trabalho foi exibido em Washington, Nova York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles e Cidade do Cabo em 2001. No ano seguinte, Confessions of Zeno foi comissionado para a Documenta XI, em Kassel. Em 2004, uma nova retrospectiva do seu trabalho foi exposta em Düsseldorf, Sydney, Montreal, Johannesburgo e Miami. Em novembro de 2004, o Metropolitan Museum em Nova York apresentou uma exposição individual do trabalho de Kentridge a partir da sua coleção. Em 2005 ocorreram: estréia da produção de Die Zauberflöte, de Mozart no Théâtre de La Monnaie, Bruxelas; instalação 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Day for Night and Journey to the Moon, Bienal de Veneza; e apresentação de Black Box / Chambre Noire, no Deutsche Bank Guggenheim, em Berlim. FONTE http://www.fundacaobienal.art.br/novo/index.php?option=com_pessoa&campo=artista&Itemid=56&task=detalhe&id=67 . UN PETIT "ABOUT".. Kentridge et le théâtre William Kentridge s'intéresse également au théâtre, et ce depuis longtemps ; il est venu en France pour l'étudier en 1981-82. Il a mis en scène plusieurs pièces mêlant film d'animation et document historique, acteurs et marionnettes, dans un dialogue incessant entre culture européenne et culture sud-africaine ("Faustus in Africa" d'après Goethe, "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse" adaptation de Monteverdi d'après l'Odyssée d'Homère). Avec "Zeno at 4 pm", présenté au Centre Georges Pompidou du 24 au 28 octobre 2001, il s'inspire du roman "La Conscience de Zeno" (1923) d'Italo Svevo, dans un travail en collaboration avec la Handspring Puppet Company. Le roman présente Zeno s'adressant à son psychanalyste, partagé entre ce qu'il dit et ce qu'il pense : c'est cette division qui a attiré Kentridge, comparable aux divisions qui existent à Johannesburg. Les tourments intérieurs deviennent le reflet de la situation sociale de violence et d'oppression. Dans "Ubu and The Truth Commission", il emprunte à Alfred Jarry son personnage d'Ubu afin de mêler encore politique et littérature : cette pièce explore les rapports de la Commission de Vérité, créée après la fin de l'apartheid, qui visait à recueillir les témoignages des victimes et les confessions des bourreaux, pour se demander comment panser les blessures de l'histoire. William Kentridge revigore certaines catégories artistiques plutôt déconsidérées comme le dessin ou le film d'animation "préhistorique", tout en étant enraciné dans la réalité politique et sociale de son pays, pour mieux souligner l'universalité des expériences humaines vis-à-vis de notions telles que la justice, la moralité, la responsabilité. FONTE http://www.fluctuat.net/expos/chroniques/kentridge.htm .

Student Work for University of Witwatersrand. A Collaboration between three Art students in a Stop Frame Animation Course.

Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Published with: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedinformdecismak/

Women at the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity features young South African students participating in Dr. Sheila Meintjes' Feminist Theory and Politics course at the University of Witwatersrand. Inspired by the themes revealed during the "Black Feminist Thought" seminar conducted by visiting lecturer Shatema Threadcraft, the documentary will demonstrate how this generation of women think about, negotiate and/or reinterpret their role in post millennial South African society. In highlighting the importance of democratic disagreement in a vibrant, engaged population gender, class, and ethnicity will be explored by an extraordinary group of individuals representing myriad socio-economic, ethnic and regional backgrounds.

Phetsile Kholekile Dlamini-Nkomo, the second of fi ve children, was born into a faithful, Adventist family in Swaziland. A rural farmer, Phetsile's father valued education and sent her to Mbukwane Seventh-day Adventist School, the first Adventist secondary school in Swaziland. In 1970, she completed a B.Sc. degree at the University of Lesotho, and then proceeded to the University of Ghana to study medicine. After completing her internship in Natal, South Africa, she joined the staff of Hlathikhulu Government Hospital, Swaziland, in 1976 and soon became its director. She also directed 22 rural clinics. "Thereafter, Dr. Dlamini continued her specialization and obtained a master's degree in pediatrics in 1985 at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and in 1986 a Fellowship Degree with the College of Physicians (pediatrics) in South Africa. Following her return to Swaziland in 1987, she began a private rural practice, bringing health and healing to thousands of infants and children. Six years later, recognizing her professional standing and community service, the Parliament of Swaziland secondarily (i.e., without standing for election) elected her to this august body. In 1996 Dr. Dlamini was appointed as the Minister for Health and Social Welfare," according to Percy Peters of Dialogue.

'Building Bridges in Africa, Early Childhood Development for Children with Hearing Loss' Conference Highlights 13-14 August 2007

FILM ANIMATION BY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE(b.1955) Animated films offer an emblematic and unprecedented insight into the South Africa of today, from the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to traces of apartheid's violence in the landscape around Johannesburg. The images in Kentridge's films depict political realities, expressed in terms of individual human suffering. They are patiently made up of dozens of drawings, often made from the erasure as well as the addition of lines and forms. ____________________________ William Kentridge nasceu em Johannesburgo, África do Sul, em 1955, e em 1976 graduou-se pela University of the Witwatersrand. Kentridge fez seu primeiro filme animado, Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris, em 1989. Ao longo de sua carreira, Kentrigde produziu obras em diversas técnicas, passando por filme, desenho e teatro, com projetos recentes freqüentemente integrando elementos de todas essas mídias e outras mais. Algumas das suas exposições selecionadas são: 1ª Bienal de Johannesburgo (1995); Bienal de Havana; Documenta X, em Kassel (1997); exposições individuais no The Drawing Center, Nova York (1998); The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1998); Project Room, Museum of Modern Art, Nova York e Serpentine Gallery (1999). Uma exposição retrospectiva dos seus trabalhos foi exibida pelo Palais des Beaux-Arts, em Bruxelas, seguindo para museus em Munique, Barcelona, Londres, Marselha e Graz (1998-1999). Recebeu a Carnegie Medal no Carnegie International (1999-2000) e a Goslar Kaisserring (2003), em reconhecimento à sua contribuição para a arte contemporânea. Seu trabalho foi exibido em Washington, Nova York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles e Cidade do Cabo em 2001. No ano seguinte, Confessions of Zeno foi comissionado para a Documenta XI, em Kassel. Em 2004, uma nova retrospectiva do seu trabalho foi exposta em Düsseldorf, Sydney, Montreal, Johannesburgo e Miami. Em novembro de 2004, o Metropolitan Museum em Nova York apresentou uma exposição individual do trabalho de Kentridge a partir da sua coleção. Em 2005 ocorreram: estréia da produção de Die Zauberflöte, de Mozart no Théâtre de La Monnaie, Bruxelas; instalação 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Day for Night and Journey to the Moon, Bienal de Veneza; e apresentação de Black Box / Chambre Noire, no Deutsche Bank Guggenheim, em Berlim. FONTE http://www.fundacaobienal.art.br/novo/index.php?option=com_pessoa&campo=artista&Itemid=56&task=detalhe&id=67 . UN PETIT "ABOUT".. Kentridge et le théâtre William Kentridge s'intéresse également au théâtre, et ce depuis longtemps ; il est venu en France pour l'étudier en 1981-82. Il a mis en scène plusieurs pièces mêlant film d'animation et document historique, acteurs et marionnettes, dans un dialogue incessant entre culture européenne et culture sud-africaine ("Faustus in Africa" d'après Goethe, "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse" adaptation de Monteverdi d'après l'Odyssée d'Homère). Avec "Zeno at 4 pm", présenté au Centre Georges Pompidou du 24 au 28 octobre 2001, il s'inspire du roman "La Conscience de Zeno" (1923) d'Italo Svevo, dans un travail en collaboration avec la Handspring Puppet Company. Le roman présente Zeno s'adressant à son psychanalyste, partagé entre ce qu'il dit et ce qu'il pense : c'est cette division qui a attiré Kentridge, comparable aux divisions qui existent à Johannesburg. Les tourments intérieurs deviennent le reflet de la situation sociale de violence et d'oppression. Dans "Ubu and The Truth Commission", il emprunte à Alfred Jarry son personnage d'Ubu afin de mêler encore politique et littérature : cette pièce explore les rapports de la Commission de Vérité, créée après la fin de l'apartheid, qui visait à recueillir les témoignages des victimes et les confessions des bourreaux, pour se demander comment panser les blessures de l'histoire. William Kentridge revigore certaines catégories artistiques plutôt déconsidérées comme le dessin ou le film d'animation "préhistorique", tout en étant enraciné dans la réalité politique et sociale de son pays, pour mieux souligner l'universalité des expériences humaines vis-à-vis de notions telles que la justice, la moralité, la responsabilité. FONTE http://www.fluctuat.net/expos/chroniques/kentridge.htm .

Born in Johannesburg 1949, Renfrew Christie was active in the National Union of South African Students while at Witwatersrand University and was full-time Deputy President of NUSAS in 1971-72. Christie was arrested under the Terrorism Act in 1979 and spent seven months in solitary confinement. He was sentenced in 1980 and spent seven years in prison for supplying the African National Congress with information about the governments nuclear weapons program, on Escom, on Koeberg, and on Sasol. Christie is now Dean of Research at the University of the Western Cape.

FILM ANIMATION BY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE(b.1955) Animated films offer an emblematic and unprecedented insight into the South Africa of today, from the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to traces of apartheid's violence in the landscape around Johannesburg. The images in Kentridge's films depict political realities, expressed in terms of individual human suffering. They are patiently made up of dozens of drawings, often made from the erasure as well as the addition of lines and forms. ____________________________ William Kentridge nasceu em Johannesburgo, África do Sul, em 1955, e em 1976 graduou-se pela University of the Witwatersrand. Kentridge fez seu primeiro filme animado, Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris, em 1989. Ao longo de sua carreira, Kentrigde produziu obras em diversas técnicas, passando por filme, desenho e teatro, com projetos recentes freqüentemente integrando elementos de todas essas mídias e outras mais. Algumas das suas exposições selecionadas são: 1ª Bienal de Johannesburgo (1995); Bienal de Havana; Documenta X, em Kassel (1997); exposições individuais no The Drawing Center, Nova York (1998); The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1998); Project Room, Museum of Modern Art, Nova York e Serpentine Gallery (1999). Uma exposição retrospectiva dos seus trabalhos foi exibida pelo Palais des Beaux-Arts, em Bruxelas, seguindo para museus em Munique, Barcelona, Londres, Marselha e Graz (1998-1999). Recebeu a Carnegie Medal no Carnegie International (1999-2000) e a Goslar Kaisserring (2003), em reconhecimento à sua contribuição para a arte contemporânea. Seu trabalho foi exibido em Washington, Nova York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles e Cidade do Cabo em 2001. No ano seguinte, Confessions of Zeno foi comissionado para a Documenta XI, em Kassel. Em 2004, uma nova retrospectiva do seu trabalho foi exposta em Düsseldorf, Sydney, Montreal, Johannesburgo e Miami. Em novembro de 2004, o Metropolitan Museum em Nova York apresentou uma exposição individual do trabalho de Kentridge a partir da sua coleção. Em 2005 ocorreram: estréia da produção de Die Zauberflöte, de Mozart no Théâtre de La Monnaie, Bruxelas; instalação 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Day for Night and Journey to the Moon, Bienal de Veneza; e apresentação de Black Box / Chambre Noire, no Deutsche Bank Guggenheim, em Berlim. FONTE http://www.fundacaobienal.art.br/novo/index.php?option=com_pessoa&campo=artista&Itemid=56&task=detalhe&id=67 . UN PETIT "ABOUT".. Kentridge et le théâtre William Kentridge s'intéresse également au théâtre, et ce depuis longtemps ; il est venu en France pour l'étudier en 1981-82. Il a mis en scène plusieurs pièces mêlant film d'animation et document historique, acteurs et marionnettes, dans un dialogue incessant entre culture européenne et culture sud-africaine ("Faustus in Africa" d'après Goethe, "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse" adaptation de Monteverdi d'après l'Odyssée d'Homère). Avec "Zeno at 4 pm", présenté au Centre Georges Pompidou du 24 au 28 octobre 2001, il s'inspire du roman "La Conscience de Zeno" (1923) d'Italo Svevo, dans un travail en collaboration avec la Handspring Puppet Company. Le roman présente Zeno s'adressant à son psychanalyste, partagé entre ce qu'il dit et ce qu'il pense : c'est cette division qui a attiré Kentridge, comparable aux divisions qui existent à Johannesburg. Les tourments intérieurs deviennent le reflet de la situation sociale de violence et d'oppression. Dans "Ubu and The Truth Commission", il emprunte à Alfred Jarry son personnage d'Ubu afin de mêler encore politique et littérature : cette pièce explore les rapports de la Commission de Vérité, créée après la fin de l'apartheid, qui visait à recueillir les témoignages des victimes et les confessions des bourreaux, pour se demander comment panser les blessures de l'histoire. William Kentridge revigore certaines catégories artistiques plutôt déconsidérées comme le dessin ou le film d'animation "préhistorique", tout en étant enraciné dans la réalité politique et sociale de son pays, pour mieux souligner l'universalité des expériences humaines vis-à-vis de notions telles que la justice, la moralité, la responsabilité. FONTE http://www.fluctuat.net/expos/chroniques/kentridge.htm .

Born in Johannesburg 1949, Renfrew Christie was active in the National Union of South African Students while at Witwatersrand University and was full-time Deputy President of NUSAS in 1971-72. Christie was arrested under the Terrorism Act in 1979 and spent seven months in solitary confinement. He was sentenced in 1980 and spent seven years in prison for supplying the African National Congress with information about the governments nuclear weapons program, on Escom, on Koeberg, and on Sasol. Christie is now Dean of Research at the University of the Western Cape.

This is an old gijima project that was never completed.. Hopefully we can redo this project and complete it to what its ment to be .. a 3 man race across ONE of south Africa's HOTEST trainning loactions.. "wits" (University of witwatersrand" Camera credits : Ultima and Irish Editing Credit : Ultima story: Irish Traceurs : Irish Paws Ultima

Born in Johannesburg 1949, Renfrew Christie was active in the National Union of South African Students while at Witwatersrand University and was full-time Deputy President of NUSAS in 1971-72. Christie was arrested under the Terrorism Act in 1979 and spent seven months in solitary confinement. He was sentenced in 1980 and spent seven years in prison for supplying the African National Congress with information about the governments nuclear weapons program, on Escom, on Koeberg, and on Sasol. Christie is now Dean of Research at the University of the Western Cape.

In time, Kruger emerged as a leader. He started as a field cornet in the commandos, eventually becoming Commandant-General of the South African Republic. He was appointed member of a commission of the Volksraad, the republican parliament that was to draw up a constitution. People began to take notice of the young man and he played a prominent part in ending the quarrel between the Transvaal leader, Stephanus Schoeman, and M.W. Pretorius. In 1873, Kruger resigned as Commandant-General, and for a time he held no office and retired to his farm, Boekenhoutfontein. However, in 1874 he was elected to the Executive Council and shortly after that became Vice-President of the Transvaal. Following the annexation of the Transvaal by Britain in 1877, Kruger became the leader of the resistance movement. During the same year, he visited Britain for the first time as leader of a deputation. In 1878, he was part of a second deputation. A highlight of his visit to Europe was when he ascended in a hot air balloon and saw Paris from the air. The First Boer War, also known as the "First War of Independence", started in 1880, and the British forces were defeated in the decisive battle at Majuba in 1881. Once again, Kruger played an important role in the negotiations with the British, which led to the restoration of the Transvaal's independence under British suzerainty. On 30 December 1880, at the age of 55, Kruger was elected President of the Transvaal. One of his first aims was the revision of the Pretoria Convention of 1881, the agreement between the Boers and the British that ended the First Boer War. Therefore, he again left for Britain in 1883, empowered to negotiate with Lord Derby. Kruger and his companions also visited the Continent and this visit became a triumph in countries such as Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Spain. In Germany, he attended an imperial banquet at which he was presented to the Emperor, Wilhelm I, and spoke at length with Bismarck. In the Transvaal, things changed rapidly after the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand. This momentous discovery was to have far-reaching political repercussions and to give rise to the uitlander, or foreigner, problem, which was eventually to cause the fall of the Republic. Kruger acknowledged in his memiors that General Joubert predicted the events that were to follow afterwards, declaring that instead of rejoicing for the discovery of gold, they should be weeping because it will "cause our land to be soaked in blood." At the end of 1895, the failed Jameson raid took place; Jameson was forced to surrender, taken to Pretoria and handed over to his British countrymen for punishment. Kruger believed that the Earth is flat; in 1897 he said to a sailor sailing round the world "You don't mean round the world, it is impossible! You mean in the world. Impossible!"[1]. In 1898, Kruger was elected President for the fourth and last time. On 11 October 1899, the Second Boer War broke out. On 7 May the following year, Kruger attended the last session of the Volksraad, and left Pretoria on 29 May as Lord Roberts was advancing on the town. For weeks he either stayed in a house at Waterval Onder or in his railway carriage at Machadodorp in the then Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. In October, he left South Africa on the Dutch warship De Gelderland, sent by the Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina, which had simply ignored the British naval blockade of South Africa. His wife was too ill to travel and remained in South Africa; she died on 20 July 1901. Kruger went to Marseille and stayed for a while in The Netherlands, before moving to Clarens, Switzerland, where he died on 14 July 1904. He was buried on 16 December 1904 in the Church Street cemetery, Pretoria. (source: wikipedia)

FILM ANIMATION BY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE(b.1955) Animated films offer an emblematic and unprecedented insight into the South Africa of today, from the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to traces of apartheid's violence in the landscape around Johannesburg. The images in Kentridge's films depict political realities, expressed in terms of individual human suffering. They are patiently made up of dozens of drawings, often made from the erasure as well as the addition of lines and forms. ____________________________ William Kentridge nasceu em Johannesburgo, África do Sul, em 1955, e em 1976 graduou-se pela University of the Witwatersrand. Kentridge fez seu primeiro filme animado, Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris, em 1989. Ao longo de sua carreira, Kentrigde produziu obras em diversas técnicas, passando por filme, desenho e teatro, com projetos recentes freqüentemente integrando elementos de todas essas mídias e outras mais. Algumas das suas exposições selecionadas são: 1ª Bienal de Johannesburgo (1995); Bienal de Havana; Documenta X, em Kassel (1997); exposições individuais no The Drawing Center, Nova York (1998); The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1998); Project Room, Museum of Modern Art, Nova York e Serpentine Gallery (1999). Uma exposição retrospectiva dos seus trabalhos foi exibida pelo Palais des Beaux-Arts, em Bruxelas, seguindo para museus em Munique, Barcelona, Londres, Marselha e Graz (1998-1999). Recebeu a Carnegie Medal no Carnegie International (1999-2000) e a Goslar Kaisserring (2003), em reconhecimento à sua contribuição para a arte contemporânea. Seu trabalho foi exibido em Washington, Nova York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles e Cidade do Cabo em 2001. No ano seguinte, Confessions of Zeno foi comissionado para a Documenta XI, em Kassel. Em 2004, uma nova retrospectiva do seu trabalho foi exposta em Düsseldorf, Sydney, Montreal, Johannesburgo e Miami. Em novembro de 2004, o Metropolitan Museum em Nova York apresentou uma exposição individual do trabalho de Kentridge a partir da sua coleção. Em 2005 ocorreram: estréia da produção de Die Zauberflöte, de Mozart no Théâtre de La Monnaie, Bruxelas; instalação 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Day for Night and Journey to the Moon, Bienal de Veneza; e apresentação de Black Box / Chambre Noire, no Deutsche Bank Guggenheim, em Berlim. FONTE http://www.fundacaobienal.art.br/novo/index.php?option=com_pessoa&campo=artista&Itemid=56&task=detalhe&id=67 . UN PETIT "ABOUT".. Kentridge et le théâtre William Kentridge s'intéresse également au théâtre, et ce depuis longtemps ; il est venu en France pour l'étudier en 1981-82. Il a mis en scène plusieurs pièces mêlant film d'animation et document historique, acteurs et marionnettes, dans un dialogue incessant entre culture européenne et culture sud-africaine ("Faustus in Africa" d'après Goethe, "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse" adaptation de Monteverdi d'après l'Odyssée d'Homère). Avec "Zeno at 4 pm", présenté au Centre Georges Pompidou du 24 au 28 octobre 2001, il s'inspire du roman "La Conscience de Zeno" (1923) d'Italo Svevo, dans un travail en collaboration avec la Handspring Puppet Company. Le roman présente Zeno s'adressant à son psychanalyste, partagé entre ce qu'il dit et ce qu'il pense : c'est cette division qui a attiré Kentridge, comparable aux divisions qui existent à Johannesburg. Les tourments intérieurs deviennent le reflet de la situation sociale de violence et d'oppression. Dans "Ubu and The Truth Commission", il emprunte à Alfred Jarry son personnage d'Ubu afin de mêler encore politique et littérature : cette pièce explore les rapports de la Commission de Vérité, créée après la fin de l'apartheid, qui visait à recueillir les témoignages des victimes et les confessions des bourreaux, pour se demander comment panser les blessures de l'histoire. William Kentridge revigore certaines catégories artistiques plutôt déconsidérées comme le dessin ou le film d'animation "préhistorique", tout en étant enraciné dans la réalité politique et sociale de son pays, pour mieux souligner l'universalité des expériences humaines vis-à-vis de notions telles que la justice, la moralité, la responsabilité. FONTE http://www.fluctuat.net/expos/chroniques/kentridge.htm .