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Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria Art Museum
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Pretoria, South Afric
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No mans land
Haroon Gunn-Salie & Alfred Kamanga
No mans land is a site-specific intervention, comprising a video mapping projection by artist Haroon Gunn-Salie, marking the derelict JMT building in Central Johannesburg
The artwork was publically installed on the site bordering Newtown and Fordsberg, at the corner of Barney Simon Road and Henry Nxumalo Street, on Tuesday 25 June 2013.
No mans land is a social sculpture executed in collaboration with some of the 15 residents living in the JMT building. The piece continues the artist’s methodology of utilizing dialogue with people to create artwork concentrating on issues of displacement and land distribution in South Africa.
The artwork as well as another piece titled Room no 14-9.1 m2 was created by Gunn-Salie in collaboration with Alfred Kamanga for a group exhibition In the night I remember at the Stevenson gallery in Juta Street, Braamfontein. The exhibition, curated by Kabelo Malatsie opened on Thursday 20 June 2013, a day after centenary of the Native Land Act of 1913.