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Conventional poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

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Kykafrikaans / Willem Hendrik Boshoff., 2008

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Identifier: CC-51025-72104
Scope and Contents In Boshoff's exhibition "Epat" at Michael Stevenson's gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, Kykafrikaans was presented as a recording (present dvd). In its original forms, the poems were a series of unique typed scripto-visual pages as well as an edition of screenprints. Boshoff intended that they should be performed in order to give affective scope to the acoustic potential of the original work. Until 2006, this aspect of Kykafrikaans remained largely informal. Professional recordings of the readings of selected poems from Kykafrikaans were produced between 2006 and 2007 at the Wounded Buffalo studios in Johannesburg. The nearly 30 recordings deploy the voices of Marcel van Heerden, Jane Rademeyer, Lochner de Kock, Hermien de Vos and Boshoff himself. On entering the sparse white space of the installation of Michael Stevenson's gallery within the larger Epat exhibition, the scripto-visual images of Kykafrikaans were projected onto a screen. The appropriate recording accompanies each...
Dates: 2008