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Myer Taub

After completing a residency at the Bag Factory last year, Myer Taub has joined the Studios as a studio artist in 2010. Taub has also been awarded a post doctoral fellowship from the University of Johannesburg’s Research Centre,Visual Identities in Art and Design and the National Research Foundation. From March 2010 Taub will activate his post-doctoral research project from both his studio at the Bag Factory and the University of Johannesburg’s Research Centre,Visual Identities in Art and Design. His research project is called (Self) Production: the re–narration of the self through an application of trans-disciplinary performance within in a practice based research paradigm in order to sustain recovery.

His doctoral research, Lessons from an Aftermath, questioned how a practice of drama and narrative, from within aftermath, might provide recovery. Currently his work involves the making of cross-disciplinary creative art projects through interactive narrative, mapping, performance and performing heritage.

In March 2008, he produced a collaborative project involving performance students from Wits School of the Arts and New York University called Skin of Memory. This was followed by three commissioned projects for Iziko Museums: Miss Nothing at the Koopmans De Wet House in September 2008, 1808 at the Adderley Street Slave Lodge in October 2008, and Implantation in May 2009.

As part of his three-month residency at the Bag Factory, Taub presented Passages, an interactive treasure hunt through memory, heritage and Joburg that took place on 24 September; Heritage Day 2009. Through this project, Taub activated various sites by creating a narrative of interactivity and recovery in and through the city of Joburg. The narrative combined autobiographical elements from his own history (memories of his father who provided him with a sense of play, but later instilled a fear of illness and poverty when he fell ill from bankruptcy and cancer) with larger, more general themes about money, gold, mining, return, rites of passage. This urban expedition featured the talents of Gretha Brazelle, Tony Taub, Raymond Marlowe, Charles Ndumo, Katlego Taele, Tsholofelo Shounyane, Ndinomholo Ndilula, Goitumetswe Moseki, Rodan Kane Hart and Murray Kruger.

In October last year, he also co-facilitated a Reading Video Workshop with Nadine Hutton. Video artworks produced during the workshop were screened alongside a retrospective of works by several South African video artists, including Ed Young, Charles Maggs, Dan Halter and Dineo Bopape at the Majestic Cinema in Fordsburg. The theme of the screening, Whatever did I steal from you?, was intended to inspire ‘reflections on a greed of love/art and the ‘other’ in contemporary South African video art’.

Taub’s Cape Town-based art project, Christine’s Room, involved working with women from the MonkeyBiz HIV/AIDS wellness clinic, where he completed some of his doctoral research in the field of applied drama, along with a group of professional theatre-makers who belong to The Rooster Collective. The first phase of the process was a ten day-drama workshop involving mapping, memory, video and performance using Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House as a starting point. The workshop, which actively commemorated World Aids Day, took place at the clinic in Bokaap and moved to Iziko’s Rust en Vrede House on Buitenkant Street. The project then resumed at the Castle in Cape Town, with public viewings and performances in late January where it had two public performances on January 30th 2010, held in conjunction with ‘You Are not Alone Exhibition: Artists Against AIDS’.

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