AHT at the GSA, 28.04.2020: Words as Objects - presented by Ruth Sacks
Words as Objects Speaker: Ruth Sacks Presented on: 28 April 2020 Ruth Sacks (b. 1977, Port Elizabeth) is a South African visual artist and academic who lives in Johannesburg. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) for Social Change at Fort Hare University. Sacks holds a PhD (Arts) from the University of the Witwatersrand where she was a fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER).Congo Style: From Art Nouveau to African Independence (Michigan Press and Wits University Press), the artist's first academic book, is forthcoming. In her creative practice, Sacks has exhibited widely both locally and internationally, at venues that include M KHA (2018), ZKM (2011), Performa ‘09 (produced by the Museum for African Art in New York, 2009) and the African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007). Her primary medium is the artist book, the most recent being Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Seas (2013).
Words as Objects Speaker: Ruth Sacks Presented on: 28 April 2020 Ruth Sacks (b. 1977, Port Elizabeth) is a South African visual artist and academic who lives in Johannesburg. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) for Social Change at Fort Hare University. Sacks holds a PhD (Arts) from the University of the Witwatersrand where she was a fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER).Congo Style: From Art Nouveau to African Independence (Michigan Press and Wits University Press), the artist's first academic book, is forthcoming. In her creative practice, Sacks has exhibited widely both locally and internationally, at venues that include M KHA (2018), ZKM (2011), Performa ‘09 (produced by the Museum for African Art in New York, 2009) and the African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007). Her primary medium is the artist book, the most recent being Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Seas (2013).