the-perfect-leader
Zen Marie
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The Perfect Leader, 2009 - Single Channel Video:
An exploration of the body of the Leader.
Embassy: Republic of An US, 2009 - Installation/Performance:
An interrogation of the politics of emigration.
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Selected work
Images from exhibition "Things Fall Apart" Curated BY Ngone Fall at Trapholt Museum Denmark
Love and Hate in Lesotho, 2008 - Installation with Video/Photography/Sculpture:
Shady characters descend on one of the worlds least developed nations.
Foucault's Children, 2009 - Single Channel Video:
An examination of discourse.
The Perfect Leader is a short film that questions political leadership. Specifically the film addresses the controversial dynamics of the leader as a person,
a human being with dreams and desires but also a human with faults.
In part, the film is a homage to Jorgen Leth’s The Perfect Human (1967) which is a surreal and (subtly) cynical look at the idea of a perfect human.
The film updates Jorgen Leth’s original and uses it as a vehicle to pose questions about the cult of the individual that is predominant in contemporary leadership practices. Taking both formal as well as conceptual cues from this iconic film, The Perfect Leader addresses leadership as an ambiguous and problematic space.
The Perfect Leader dissects the physical body of the leader (played by Darius Rasekhula) as it asks the audience to reconsider what leadership means. Besides being relevant to a contemporary critique of political governance, the film is a thought-provoking meditation on leadership as space that is contradictorily
both private and public.
Jessica Gregory and Zen Marie 2009
LINKS
The Perfect Leader won top honors at Spier Contemporary
Other screenings:
StreetANTHRO, 2008 - Photographs:
Fashion in Jozie - the inspiration and process work for Urbanscenographies.
Urbanscenographies, 2008 - Street Performances:
Fashion, Posing, more Fashion, more Posing ...
Three Stadia, 2003 - 2008 - Three Channel Video Installation:
Cricket, colonialism and the architecture of nationalism.
From Nation to Corporation: An Outsiders Take on Nation Branding, 2008 - Article in journal Brands and Branding:
A critique of Nation Branding trends.
Surface Tension, 2007 - 2 Channel Video Installation:
The aesthetics of migration within the Occident.
10/100, 2004 - Book published by Bell Roberts, article by Andrew Lamprecht:
10 curators 100 artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa.