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CHRIS THURMAN: Reimagining the readymade in SA’s many vernaculars
The human brain is constantly performing astonishing computational feats as it merges different data sets and temporal states. Each moment is experienced primarily through the senses, but all the information travelling up and down our neural pathways is reconciled with past experience and used to anticipate actions or events. Most of the time, this occurs without any conscious awareness on our part; paying too much attention to such processes would be disabling. But every now and then, something happens that reminds us of the infinite synaptic activity that connects our internal and external worlds – a concatenation of times and places, feelings and sensations, memory and imagination. I experienced this overwhelming effect while visiting the Wits Art Museum, where past, present and future collide in three concurrent exhibitions. In the main atrium, Beyond the Readymade (which closes this weekend) is a selection of works from WAM’s permanent collection that reflects on a centrally im...
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