James Webb

Exhibitions Curated:

Ydesire
The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
22nd February 2003

Yde Tag
The South African National Gallery, Cape Town
7th September 2001

Selected Exhibitions / Chamber Music:

(Sound Installation)
RBMA, Cape Town
November 2003

Phonosynthesizer 100603
(Sound Installation)
NSA Gallery, Durban
10 June – 6 July 2003

Mooi Mark
Johannesburg
27 March 2003
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(Performance)

Ydesire
The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
22nd February 2003

The Long Night Of Radio Art
(Broadcast)
Ars Electronica Festival
Linz, Austria
11 September 2002

Radiotopia
(Sound Installation)
Ars Electronica Festival
Linz, Austria
7-12 September 2002
www.aec.at/radiotopia

Search
(Workshop)
Electro Lobby, Ars Electronica
Linz, Austria
7-12 September 2002

Towards Radiotopia
(Workshop/Lecture)
Annexe Gallery, Cape Town
31 August 2002

“…”
(Found Sound Space)
Thelema Mountain Vineyards
August & September 2002

Next To You, I Am Nothing
(Sound Installation)
The ABSA Gallery, JHB
July 2002
Art.b, Bellville
March 2002

Phonosynthesizer 090402
(Sound Installation)
US Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
April 2002
Review: http://artthrob.co.za/02apr/reviews/usag.html

This is sound art
(Lecture)
Stellenbosch University
August 2002
The Sasol Museum, Stellenbosch
April 2002

Conversations for siren, scanner and ambient microphone
(Lecture)
The New Media Underground Federation #2
The Valve, Cape Town
March 2002

Snatch
(Sound Installation)
Home Port
V&A Waterfront
Website: www.cell.nl/homeport/capetown
December 2001

thesexworks
(Sound Installation)
083 010 1235
Artwork/Website: http://www.artthrob.co.za/01nov/project.html
November 2001

Know Thy Worth
(Sculpture with Gabby Raaff)
Jo’burg
Cape Town
(In Jo’burg collection)
The Museum Of Temporary Art
Observatory, Cape Town
December 2001
The South African National Gallery
7 September 2001

10 Steps To Heaven
(Internet Sound Piece with Holger Czukay)
www.dignose.com
August 2001

In View Of You
((A Mixed-Media Installation with Dorothee Kreutzfelt, Renate Meyer, Jane Appleby and Veronika Klaptocz))
The Fresh Residency Program
The South African National Gallery
April 2001

Improvised Pieces For Double Bass and Electronics
(Performance with Brydon Bolton)
The Independent Armchair Theatre
January 2001

Prayer
(Sound Installation)
US Art Gallery
Stellenbosch
April 2002
True Stories Group Exhibition
The Granary, Cape Town
The One City Festival, September 2000
(In the collection of the South African National Gallery)

X
(Sound Installation)
The ABSA Gallery, JHB
July 2001
King George Gallery, Port Elizabeth
June/July 2001
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
March/April 2001
The Arts Association of Bellville, Bellville
March 2001
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein
Jan/Feb 2001
Bell-Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town
November 2000
!Xoe2 Gallery Exhibition
National Arts Festival, Grahamstown,
July 2000

Traffic
(A Sound Installation with Mark Coleman)
!Xoe2 Site-specific group exhibition
Rubrige Barn, Nieu Bethesda
!Xoe2, June 2000

Messages From The Moat
(Sound piece for Sue Williamson)
ARCHIVE 09.06_02.07
Archief, Den Haag
June 2000

Music For The DDC
(Sound Installation)
The Durban Design Collective
Gateway Shopping Mall, Durban
June 2000

Ohm
(A Sound Installation with Mark Coleman)
The ABSA Atelier Selection
ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg
July 2000

Plans For Greener Structures
(A Sound Installation with Ram)
The Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town
October 1999

From South Africa, with love, hope and a few cups of Rooibos tea
(A Sound Installation with Ram)
Postcards from South Africa
Axis Gallery, New York
August 1999
Committee’s Choice exhibition
The Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
September 1999

M2PP2
(A Sound Installation with Ram)
Joao Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town
May 2000

Like it, but can't afford it
(An Intervention)
Art Night
Cape Town
12th March 1999

African Alchemy
(Master Classes with Brian Eno)
Baxter Theatre, Cape Town
February 1998

Awards:

2002 Absa L’Atelier Merit Award

Collections:

South African National Gallery
Jo’burg Bar
Private Collections in South Africa, New York and London

Selected Articles:

Flash Art International n° 225 July- September 2002 - Aperto South Africa by Thomas Boutoux

Die Burger 25 April 2002 – SPITS JOU ORE VIR HOORBEELD SE ‘AFVALKLANK’ by Melvyn Minnaar

Artthrob, April 2002 - James Webb – “'Phonosynthesizer' at US Art Gallery” by Chris Roper

Art South Africa, Issue 1, October 2002 – “Weighing up the competitions” by Kathryn Smith

The Cape Times 23 April 2001“Voices from the city’s blasts…” by Lloyd Pollak

The Cape Times “Sound lifts art to new dimensions” by Fabbrizio Von Grebner

Discography:

Improvised Pieces For Double Bass and Electronics (with Brydon Bolton) 2001

Conference (with Niklas Zimmer) 2001

Linear City (with Holger Czukay) 2001

Infinite Coastline (with Niklas Zimmer) 2001

Selected Theatre Soundtracks:

1. “Othello” (Directed by Jacqui Singer, The Little Theatre, 1999)

2. “Mung” (Directed by Rob van Vuuren, This show toured South Africa, 1999)

3. “King Leer” (Directed by Liz Mills, The Little Theatre, 2001)

4. “The Clown Jewels” (Directed by Gaeton Schmit, The Theatre on the Bay & The 2001 Grahamstown Festival, 2001)

5. “Bangalore Torpedo” (Directed by Jaco Bouwer, The 2001 Grahamstown Festival & The Post Festival of Contemporary History, The Bijou, 2001)

6. “T’angkupa” (Directed by Lanon Prigge, This show toured South Africa, 2001)

7. “Dracula, My Story” (Directed by Chris Weare, The Theatre on the Bay & The 2001 Grahamstown Festival, 2001)

8. “Deus Ex Machina” (Directed by Lourens Smith. The 2001 Grahamstown Festival & The Arena Theatre, 2001)

9. “Uncle Vanya” (Directed by Geoff Hyland. The Arena Theatre, 2001)

10. “Aars!” (Directed by Marthinus Basson. Aardklop Festival & The Spier Summer Arts Festival, 2001 & 2002)

11. “Cold Water, Thirsty Souls” (Directed by Mark Fleishman, Choreography by Alfred Hinkel. Artscape, 2002)

12. “Scratch” (Directed by Stacy Sacks. Grahamstown Festival, 2002)

13. “Mamma Medea” (Directed by Marthinus Basson. Aardklop Festival 2002)

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Communication:

James Webb
+27 +21 4621022
+27 (0) 82 371 3833
jameswebb@mweb.co.za