Keyes Art Mile in Rosebank launched a series of art talks that will take place on a quarterly basis in The Atrium of The Trumpet building this week.
Talking Art at Keyes provides residents with an opportunity to engage in robust discussions about how art informs, challenges and moves us, said Bronwyn Coppola, media liaison for the Keyes Art Mile.
The series explores ways in which art gives the artistic community a voice – a platform to comment, express, interpret and interrogate with a freedom that is often so inhibited by more traditional forms of expression.
Keyes Art Mile hosted its first conversation with visual artist and filmmaker Michael MacGarry on 21 February. MacGarry showed his film Parang alongside Flies and The Battles. He also discussed his new exhibition which will open at Circa in March.
Lunetta Bartz, the founder of Maker, a multidisciplinary design studio and art book publisher in Johannesburg, moderated the discussion. Bartz, a longtime collector and art curator, has considerable experience and knowledge in the field of contemporary South African art.
Following the conversation, Mpumelelo Mcata and Tshepang Ramoba of the internationally acclaimed South African post-rock band, the BLK JKS, treated audiences to a set from their new duo BLKJKSsndsystm.
The next Talking Art at Keyes event Five Female Curators: shaking up the art world will be hosted on 23 May.
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