Work

Light Studies

News: That’s me in excellent company presenting a paper titled Instilling a Practice of Listening, Reflecting and Envisioning: Addressing the Gaps in Through Arts Education in Covid-19 times from my bedroom at the 1st Sub-Saharan Africa Society for Eduction through Arts (SSASEA) - UNESCO Arts Education Virtual Conference, North West University.

https://education.nwu.ac.za/ssasea/meet-our-presenters-inclusivity-equality-wellbeing-and-community

Exhibition News: I am excited to be showing some volteface.online work with Sara-Aimee Verity for Gallery, Gallery’s new exhibition opening on the 23rd of November titled ‘...she finds not her sum but her differences’ here is a short extract on us from the programme. 

“Based on the notion of the ouroboros, volteface.online sets the lemniscate form of research-forming-research on an endless feedback loop, able to generate offshoots and wanderings. Using materials available to them - wood off-cuts, gloves, string and a camera, Robyn Nesbitt and Sara-Aimee Verity started to let the collective action of moving props and building from what has become and intuitive and generative language for volteface. In the gallery, volteface presents a series of thinking videos and props, which have formed the starting point of their exchange.” - Gallery, Gallery Johannesburg.

file:///Users/macssd/Downloads/exhibition%20guide.pdf

News: volteface.online (Robyn Nesbitt & Sara-Aimee Verity) conference paper presentation titled: Productive Gaps presented at the 2018 Drama for Life Conference Festival - Transforming Arts: Aesthetic Disruption, Aesthetic Agitation.

https://www.dramaforlife.co.za/uploads/files/FINAL-DRAFT-DFL-Conference-and-Festival-2018-Programme.pdf

7/12/2018

volteface.online is a contributor-led online forum dedicated to research methodologies of transdisciplinary practice from varied knowledge sets and locals, founded and edited by Johannesburg-based researchers Robyn Nesbitt and Sara-Aimee Verity.

Field note: The Fallen, 2017 

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Field note: The Fallen, 2017 is a video which was made in conversation with my Masters research paper titled The feeling I get when things fall, 2017 which unpacks the affect (feeling) of witnessing the removal of political statues from public spaces, namely the El General Franco equestrian statue in Barcelona and the Cecil John Rhodes statue in Cape Town.

https://vimeo.com/223507666

Field note: Franco and his Horse, 2017

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A middle-aged man in military wear sits poised on an alert horse. Both the horse and rider’s gaze are directed and concentrated. They are moving forward in a collected trot towards an invisible horizon line. The man’s hand is cast out in the direction of his land or followers representing the conquest or the conquered. This sculpture is contained within the courtyard or parade ground of The Montjuïc Castle.

https://vimeo.com/223507630

Video still: Performing the Archive, 2017

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https://vimeo.com/216155645

News: Currently living in Spain completing a 1 year masters degree in Visual art and Education: A Constructionist Approach, at the Department of Visual Arts and Design, University of Barcelona.

Video still  - Grey/Gris, 2016

Text: 31st SAVAH Conference, Rethinking Art History and Visual Culture in a contemporary context - University of Johannesburg

29/07/16 

2014 - 2015 Wang’ Thola collective (Robyn Nesbitt, Sifiso Temba, Sifiso Gumede, Goolam Saber. Lindo Zwane, Lebohang Motaung, and Matthews Makgotho).

Wang' Thola - is a Slang word for "Do you know what I mean?" "You get this?" "You get me?" "You starting something?" - Supposedly derived from Zulu and Sotho.

The collective’s objectives is around generating, discussing and curating a History of the Present. We come together weekly, hosting discussions, workshops and public performances engaging with our immediate surroundings.

Wang’ Thola’s interests are around how one creates, defines and names a community though the limits of space/land/culture/home and language - This is something that as a collective we trying to outline ourselves - Where are the parameters/boundaries of a community and who and what forms it, the roles of community members and how one plays a part in defining these boundaries through active citizenship and possibly in our case through art interventions.

Our practice is multifaceted using video, zines, interviews, posters, murals, workshops and screenings as tools to generate conversation.

We are currently involved in a year long (2014 – 2015) public arts project in collaboration with VANSA (Visual Arts Network of South Africa), Revolution Room in Cosmo City.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVS53QJfSNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR4waNciEqU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLprkdqfxoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsAzvJi5fqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0za6LqMe4zE

WAND, 2015

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A collaborative film by Robyn Nesbitt & The Frown

Video: Robyn Nesbitt

Sound Design: Nicholas Nesbitt (The Frown)

Editors: Robyn Nesbitt and  Nicholas Nesbitt

Text: Robyn Nesbitt

News:

If on a winter’s night, a room is a public video screening program.

Curated by Apichaya Wanthiang/Christian Stefanescu

10 - 17 Jan 2015

13 Jan. Robyn Nesbitt (ZA)

A Conversation

The Pilot Edition of Collaborative Interventions in Space

by Robyn Nesbitt (ZA), Nina Barnett (ZA/USA) and Apichaya Wanthiang (TH/BE)

Residency Program:

24/11/14 – Johannesburg (Sober & Lonely Institute for Contemporary Art)

25/11/14 – Karoo Beaufort West

26/11/14 – 27/11/14 Karoo Prince Albert

28/11/14 – 30/11/14 Cape Town

29/11/14 – Cape Town (Atlantic House) * Public Event

1/12/14 –  12/12/14 Johannesburg (S&L)

3/12/14 –  Johannesburg (S&L) * Public Event

10/12/14 – Johannesburg (S&L) * Public Event

11/12/14 – Johannesburg (S&L) * Public Event

http://apichayawanthiang.com/2014/11/

News: A LIST FOR REMEMBERING: CATALOGUING OF CURIOUS COINCIDENCES - 14/08 - 6/09

A List for Remembering: Cataloging of curious coincidences is an ongoing series of studio light observations started in Switzerland while on residency at PROGR in 2013. These and new studies will be added to the collection for the duration of the exhibition at ROOM, exploring the notion of light in the visible and invisible documentation of everyday studio process and practice. Experiments are left ongoing, works exist in process and are protected under constant observation - the marking and acknowledging of time and the depiction of that action. ART WEEK JOBURG PROGRAMME: Saturday, 23 August 2014, from 10h00 to 20h00 Carpet Series: Episode 4: Wednesday, 3 September from 18h00 Closing Reception/Finissage: Saturday, 6 September 2014 from 12h30  Open to the public: 14 August 2014 - 06 September 2014

A viewing of the moon - 10/08/14

(A viewing of the moon Sunday 10 August 7.30 for 8pm with Robyn Nesbitt

This Sunday the 10th of August is the night of the Super Full Moon, the one day in the year that the moon is closest to the earth. To celebrate this event, Robyn Nesbitt will be hosting the rise of the Super Moon at Sober & Lonely.   Join us in viewing the moon (projected into the S&L space) while listening to a reading of Italo Calvino’s The Distance of the Moon by Simon Shear. There will be a live feed on our website if you aren’t in Joburg to join us. Bring your torches, binoculars, telescopes and camping chairs, and enjoy the moon in all its glory. Tea, coffee and rusks will be served)

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f1804b97f0f3593ee4ed713a6&id=49c2072c2a

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/a-viewing-of-the-moon