Post Digital 2019/2020 Special Edition

CHLO  HUGO-HAMMAN • SSI_ISSA • LUKE TURK

MJ TURPIN • NATALIE PNG • NEIL BADENHORST • YOULENDREE APPASAMY

In early 2020 the world started to embark on a collective change and our entire understanding of existing in the world shifted as a result of the global pandemic. This change was collective yet brought with it nuanced individual changes on a micro and individual scale, many of which we are still in 2021, yet to be able to identify.

Towards the end of March in 2020 South Africa embarked on an initial three week national lockdown and we entered a State of Emergency. This was then extended for an additional two weeks, which Floating Reverie decided to engage with.

The //2Weeks special edition of 2020 took place at the end of April deliberately coinciding with the initial first extension of the hard lockdown Level 5 in South Africa. The idea was inspired by conversations with the artist ISSI_ISSA. Our current context and way of working online resonates with Floating Reverie as a framework for artistic practice. The special edition was an open invitation to all previous residency artists and an opportunity for them to reimagine their past residency on a new or similar platform. It was still focussed on process, practice and research, positioned as an opportunity to develop an idea - no matter how incomplete or complete.

Daily iterations and outputs. The poignancy of this moment has not been lost on these artists.

Post-Digital 2019/2020 special edition is a re-imaging of the //2Weeks online digital residencies that took place in 2019 and the special edition in 2020. It is a reflection, a reimagining and re-engagement of an experience, process and practice, and an interrogation of the residency.

The Post-Digital is a response to this, in both forms. Artists take their initial engagement during the residency, re-locate it from a virtual, digital space, into a physical, real space. The artists engage with and challenge the digital space while extending their own practice in the different processes.

This Post-Digital presents creative practice emerging from, and because, of two pivotal moments in our contemporary context – before and during the pandemic. The artists who participated in //2Weeks during 2019 are engaging with their practice from before the pandemic, reflecting and re-imagining now in the heart of the pandemic in 2021. The artists who participated in the //2Weeks special edition are engaging with their practice from the beginning of the pandemic, also reflecting and re-imagining now in the heart of the pandemic in 2021.