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curriculum
vitae
K A I L O S S G O T T
a r t I s t, w r i t e
r, l e c t u r e r
www.kailossgott.com
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+ 27 72 1198300
hello@kailossgott.com
cv on 1/7/2009
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1980/03/ 07
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born in Marktoberdorf, Germany.
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Languages: English, German,
Afrikaans (fluently written and spoken), French (conversational)
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education
1996 - 1998
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National School of Arts, Johannesburg. Matriculation. A Aggregate. 7 distinctions.
School trophies for: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Foreign Languages,
Top Academic Learner.
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1999 – 2002
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Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Theatre and Media Studies. Practical studies in dance,
directing, African music, photojournalism, documentary camera, sound,
production, editing.
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2002
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Rhodes University. BJourn TV Journalism with Distinction. Full Academic Colours.
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2003 - 2004
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University of South Africa. Advanced Diploma in Visual
Arts with Distinction. Professional exhibition practice.
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2006 - 2008
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University of Cape Town. Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Distinction.
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2008 May
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Durban Art Gallery, Kwa Zulu Natal. Critical Art Writer’s Workshop with Sean O’Toole.
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2008 August
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UCT Graduate School of
Business, Cape
Town. Business Acumen for Artists
Course. Distinction.
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awards, grants and fellowships
2008 Dec
- Jan
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Nirox Foundation Residency, Cradle of Humankind World
Heritage Site, Johannesburg.
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2008 November
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The road to Nieu
Bethesda. Intercultural symposium of artists. Switzerland / South Africa.
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2008 November.
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Platforma Video 8 International
Film Festival, Athens. 7 - 10 Nov 2008. Nominated for Audience Prize.
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2008 September
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6th flEXiff (first and last Experimental
film festival) 2002 - 2022, Sydney. Nominated for Best Short Film Award and Special flEXiff Award.
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2008 July
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National Arts Council (NAC) grant towards the realization
of the exhibition cull’tivate.
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2006 January
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University of Cape Town Research Scholarship &
Harry Crossley Scholarship.
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2004
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FNB Vita Craft Now! Gold Prize, as
part of the Journey to Freedom project, for the animation Bawo
Thixo Somandla.
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2002 - 2004
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Television: SAGE Student Editor Award,
NTVA Top Student Dolphin Award, Apollo Award nominations, VUKA Award finals,
Sithengi Talent Campus
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200
contemporary art collections
SASOL
Art Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
UNISA
Permanent Collection, Pretoria, South Africa
Nirox
Foundation Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
00130gallery
multimedia collection, Helsinki, Finland
Various
private collections.
selected exhibitions
2009
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Thess Film Festival,
Thessaloniki, Greece. [festival]
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2009
1
– 11 July
10
– 14 Sept
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Cinedans, Amsterdam, Cape Town.
[festival]
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2009
May
– Nov 2010
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Dystopia. Curated by Elfriende Dreyer and Jacob
Lebeko. May 23 – June 30,
2009: Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria. October 8 – November 15, 2009: Museum Africa, Johannesburg. June 10 – August 8, 2010:
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Mangaung. October 17 – November 21, 2010: Jan Colle Galerij, Ghent,
Belgium.
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2009
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The City Breath Festival of Video Poetry and Performance. Urban oral history film project, Cape
Town, Johannesburg, Grahamstown. Special previews curated for: Badilisha Poetry Festival , Africa
Centre, Cape Town, 2009, 20 – 22 May 2009. Africa Day celebrations, Sacks Futeran Building, Cape
Town, 25 May 2009, DEEP, Cape
Town Aquarium, 30 July 2009. www.citybreathproject.blogspot.com [festival director, curator.]
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2009
29
May
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Home. Public performance
by Art Pays collective, commissioned by the Cape09 Biennale. Golden Acre shopping mall.
Collaboration with Rampedi Molefe, Daya Heller, Bulelwa Basse.
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2009
20
- 22 May
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Badilisha! An African
Poetry X-change, (formerly Spier Poetry Exchange). Commission for “enough”, a video poetry performance collaboration with the poet Mbali
Vilakazi.
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2009
11
May
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Featured poet at Off the Wall with video poetry performance and
reading, Touch of Madness, Cape Town. [poetry performance]
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2009
March
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Design Indaba, CTICC, Cape
Town. VANSA (Visual Arts Network
of South Arica) showcase. Video
by young artists with performance choreographed by Jay Pather.
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2009
14
March – 19 April
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The Vitruvian Woman Video Project. Curated by Michael Chang. A sculpture consisting of 9 monitors and 9 DVD players, showing
15 minutes of video art by 33
participating artists from 14 countries. Formverk Art Space, Eskilstuna, Sweden. [group exhibition.]
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2009
11
– 29 March
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VIDEOFORMES 2009, 24th Manifestation of International Art Video and Digital Culture. “Vidéothèque Éphémère”,
Clermont-Ferrand, France. [festival]
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2009
4
Feb - 1 March
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Water Preserves. A
photo-video installation curated by Jan Kather. State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York. [group exhibition.]
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2009
17
Jan – 27 Feb
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Infecting the City, Cape Town. Site-specific visual performance programme curated by Brett
Bailey. Collaboration on “Limbo”
in Church Square with Fabrice Guillot (Retouramont), Julia Raynham (Resonance
Bazaar) and Brian Geza. [festival.]
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2008
10
Dec
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Art Pays. Launch of
public space intervention art collective. Cape Town. [performance.]
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2008
12
– 16 Nov
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INVIDEO XVIII Edition, Milan. [festival.]
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2008
7
– 10 Nov
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PLATFORMA VIDEO8 International
Film Festival, Athens. [festival.]
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2008.
7
– 8 Nov
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24 Hours Nuremberg
Filmfestival 2008, Nuremberg, Germany.
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2008
6
-9 Nov
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21st Annual Dallas Video Festival, Angelika Film Center, Dallas. [festival.]
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2008
1-8
Oct
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Cologne Online Film Festival IV “Here We Are!”
Salon de Arte
Digital. Museum of Contemporary
Art (MACZUL) Maracaibo/Venezuela.
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2009
13
Sept – 17 Oct
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Intervention. Curated by Koos van der Watt and Jacob Lebeko. Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, South
Africa. [group]
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2008
21
Sept
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PANSA 48h Festival, Cape
Town. [ performance festival.]
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2008
19
– 27 Sept
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11th annual Antimatter
Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada. [festival.]
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2008
19
– 21 Sept
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6th flEXiff (first and last Experimental film
festival) 2002 - 2022, Sydney. [festival.]
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2008 ongoing
August
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Exquisite Corpse Video Project, an online experimental film
collaboration, 24 countries. 18 August
2008, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NYC. October 14
- 28 2008 Rural Research Laboratories @ the Arnot Art Museum, NYC. October 9 - 16 2008, Indie - Mostra de Cinema Mundial,
Belo Horizonte, Brazil. October
30, 2008 VANSA, Visual Arts Network of South Africa, Cape Town. November 20 -
29, 2008, aluCine 2008, Toronto, Canada. 13 – 15 February,
Supermarket Art Fair 2009, Stockholm, Sweden. [screenings.]
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2008, August
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Print ’08: Myth, Memory and the Archive. Bell-Roberts Gallery. Cape Town. [group.]
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2008 August
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SASOL
New Signatures. Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria. Klein Karoo Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn. [group.]
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2008 July
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ABSA
l’Atelier Awards. ABSA Gallery,
Johannesburg. [group.]
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2008 April
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ABSA
l’Atelier Awards. Art B,
Bellville, Cape Town. [group]
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2008 April
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Nothing with skin is blind. An exhibition of video, poetry and plant leaf
engravings. Gordart Gallery,
Johannesburg. [solo].
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2007 December
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Spier Contemporary. (Special Mention.) Stellenbosch, Johannesburg. [group.]
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2007 August
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SASOL
New Signatures. Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria. Klein Karoo Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn. [group.]
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2007 July
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ABSA
l’Atelier Awards. ABSA Gallery,
Johannesburg. [group.]
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2005 March
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Weavings
of War. Michigan State
University Museum, Lansing. Travelling show. [group]
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2005 June
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Ekhuruleni Fine Art Awards. Coen Scholtz Recreation
Centre, Thembisa. [group.]
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2004 September
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Brett
Kebble Awards. CTICC, Cape Town. [group]
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2004 July
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Problematising Race. Whitechapel Gallery, London. [group]
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2004 June
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Ekhuruleni
Fine Art Awards. Coen Scholtz Recreation Centre, Thembisa. [group]
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2004 January
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Secure. An exhibition of video installation, interactive web art, poetry,
photography and graphics. UNISA Oak Square Gallery. [solo presented within group context]
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2003 September
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Plug-ins, an exhibition of experimental media work by
UNISA Visual Art students. Aardklop Art Festival, Potchefstroom. [Curator & Media Liaison]
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2002 June
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Red Café. Grahamstown. Standard
Bank National Arts Festival. [solo]
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2001 August
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Marking Effacement, interdisciplinary portrait
exhibition. Rhodes
UniversityTheatre Foyer. Curated
by Tegan Bristowe. [group]
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2000 April
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Sublime. Grahamstown. [group]
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1999 August
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Kempton Park / Thembisa Awards. [group]
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1996
- 1998.
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National School of the Arts Gallery. [group]
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selected
publications
2003
2004
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Visual Narratives. UNISA Department of Visual Arts and
Musicology. Study Guide.
The City. UNISA Department of Visual Arts and Musicology. Study Guide.
Surface. UNISA Department of Visual Arts and Musicology. Study Guide.
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2008
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Body / space / time / video
/ interactivity. Essay in
UNISA Visual Art Department Third year study guide.
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2005 - 2009
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Various poetry
publications. (LitNet, Off The
Wall, Botsotso, Ons Klyntjie, Green Dragon)
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2007
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The short story The Fishwife performed as live reading at the National Arts Festival
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2007
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The short story Right to the
main silent selected for broadcast as podcast
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2009
March
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The audio poem what we dream
of. Itch edition 03.s
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