VANDALIZIM on Sunday 7 March @ 15h00 to 18h00

Gallery MOMO, The Zimology Institute and African Noise Foundation present VANDALIZIM.
Sunday 7 March @15h00 to 18h00.

Andrew Tshabangu’s images of the vandalism at the Zimology Institute will be on exhibit. Aryan Kaganof’s film “Exhibition of Vandalism” will be showing on one of the gallery walls while Zim and Kyle improvise in tandem to the video (Kyle will be playing of the vandalised piano). The poet, Frank Meintjies will be the speaker and there will be a documentary filmmaker recording the entire event.

VANDALIZIM is a healing ceremony performed by Zim Ngqawana and Kyle Shepherd in the desecrated body of The Zimology Institute.
The film of this event, THE EXHIBITION OF VANDALISM has been edited as a springboard to a further improvisation that will take place live in Gallery MOMO, in effect allowing for the duet of Kyle Shepherd (on piano and violin) and Zim Ngqawana (on woodwinds) to be mediated into a unique quartet, playing impossible combinations backwards and forwards through space and time.

This composition was inspired by vandalism on The Zimology Institute’s farm earlier this month. Two grand pianos were heavily vandalized and the building was stripped of all electrical connections and was left a shell.
Two pianos are played as found on the scene. Other items broken during the act of vandalism are also incorporated in the composition.
Filmed by Aryan Kaganof from African Noise Foundation, photographed by Andrew Tshabangu and coordinated by Zaide Harneker, this event is a fundraising effort towards rebuilding The Zimology Institute.
The Institute is grateful to all those participating in this fundraising event.
THE EXHIBITION OF VANDALISM
60 minutes. 2010

Please feel free to contact Gallery MOMO on +27 11 327 3247, or e-mail karen@gallerymomo.com. More information on the musicians and film maker are available on request.