Nolan Oswald Dennis, Isivivane, 2023. 3D printers, 3D printed rocks (from geology museums in South Africa). dimensions variable. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale; INSITE; Javett Art Centre-UP. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: glimworkers
Nolan Oswald Dennis, Isivivane, 2023. 3D printers, 3D printed rocks (from geology museums in South Africa). dimensions variable. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale; INSITE; Javett Art Centre-UP. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: glimworkers
Nolan Oswald Dennis, Isivivane, 2023. 3D printers, 3D printed rocks (from geology museums in South Africa). dimensions variable. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale; INSITE; Javett Art Centre-UP. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: glimworkers
Nolan Oswald Dennis, Isivivane, 2023. 3D printers, 3D printed rocks (from geology museums in South Africa). dimensions variable. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale; INSITE; Javett Art Centre-UP. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: glimworkers
Nolan Oswald Dennis, Isivivane, 2023. 3D printers, 3D printed rocks (from geology museums in South Africa). dimensions variable. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale; INSITE; Javett Art Centre-UP. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: glimworkers
Nolan Oswald Dennis, Isivivane, 2023. 3D printers, 3D printed rocks (from geology museums in South Africa). dimensions variable. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale; INSITE; Javett Art Centre-UP. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: glimworkers
Isivivane draws on Dennis’s longterm collaboration with South African institutions and professionals in the field of geology. The artist and institutions have collaboratively undertaken a process of scanning and reproducing rock collections in order to make them available to those without access to geologic archives and museums. In this new and durational manifestation of the work, the rock archive is reconstituted live in the gallery, with 3D printed objects piled into cairns that signal through plastic the absence of the actual stones.
