'Alternating Currents' Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare.co.uk Alternating Currents Co-curators: Octavio Zaya and Okwui Enwezor Location: Electric Workshop, 1 President Street, Newtown, Johannesburg
"Alternating Currents" advances the idea that the purpose and significance of our journey does not lie in only one direction. This exhibition aspires to untangle the ways in which cultural globalization attempts to neutralize all kinds of cultural, social, political, and economic conflicts within the claims of new social movements. It allows us to consider questioning and breaking-up of the homogeneous continuum of a single unique history, becoming a zone of encounters, a flexible space where histories, facts, theories and various cultural practices and social relations tangle productively. The site for this exhibition, formerly a generating station and municipal workshop for the city's Electricity Department, has been renovated over the last four years to serve as a multi purpose venue for cultural events in the Newtown Cultural Precinct. It is the main venue for the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1977.
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The Other Artist:
Esko Manniko, Finland Steve McQueen, UK Salem Mekouria, Ethiopia William Miko, Zambia Andries Botha, SA Tania Bruguera, Cuba Lucy Orta, France Olafur Eliasson, Iceland Vivienne Koorland, SA Beat Streuli, Switzerland Igor Kopystiansky, Ukraine Vivan Sundaram, India Svetlana Kopystiansky, Russia Sam Taylor-Wood, UK Sue Williamson, SA Nestor Torrens, Canary Islands Carlos Uribe, Columbia Eulalia Valdosera, Spain Sergio Vega, Argentina Carl Michael von Hausswolff, & Leif Elgreen, Sweden	Ghada Amer, Egypt Los Carpinteros, Cuba Atta Kwami, Ghana Ken Lum , Canada Oladele Ajiboye Bamboye, Nigeria Olu Oguibe, Nigeria Moustapha Dime, Senegal Gabriel Orozco, Mexico Touhami Ennadre, Morocco Marthne-Tayou Pascal, Cameroon Coco Fusco, USA Malcolm Payne, SA Kendell Geers, USA Marco Peljhan, Slovenia Felix Gonzalez-Torres, USA Vong Phaophanit, Laos/UK Renee Green, USA Rona Pondick, USA Gu Wenda, China Carrie Mae Weems, USA	Wayne Barker, SA Pat Mautloa, SA Mario Benjamin, Haiti Zwelethu Mthetwa, SA Shirin Neshat, Iran Rivane Neuenschwander, Brazil Antonio Ole, Angola Pepon Osorio , Puerto Rico/USA Kay Hassan, SA Rosangelo Renno, Brazil Juan Fernando Herran, Columbia Sophie Ristelhueber, France Pierre Huyghe, France Peter Robinson, New Zealand Cho Duck-Hyun, Korea Juan Carlos Robles, Spain Isaac Julien, UK Joachim Schonfeldt, SA Jeremy Wafer, SA Mark Wallinger, UK	Bili Bidjocka, Cameroon Gordon Bleach, SA Santu Mofokeng, SA Jeanette Christensen, Norway Milagros de la Torre, Peru Viye Diba, Senegal Eugenio Dittborn, Chile Ouatara, Cote d,Ivoire Teresa Serrano, Mexico Seydou Keita, Mali Yinka Shonibare, Nigeria Suchan Kinoshita, Netherlands Penny Siopis, SA Joachim Koester, Denmark Abdourahmane Sissako, Mauritania Abdoulaye Konate, Mali Peter Spaas, Netherlands Ernesto Pujol. Cuba Hans Haacke, Germany / USA Jo Ractliffe, SA
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