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Home   About DigiArts   Media arts   Music using technology   Regional networking   Training   UNESCO Digital Arts Award   Young Digital Creators		ROSE    Ms Tracey ROSE Johannesburg (South Africa), 1974. Lives in Johannesburg (South Africa). Video, Installation. Bio     Tracey Rose’s work reflects on the cultural, economic and political differences that mark the world today, along with identity-related and ethnic issues. Rose graduated in the Fine Arts from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1996. Her career as an artist started at that moment, with a series of exhibitions that included “Hitchhiker” at the Generator Art Space, Johannesburg (1996); the Johannesburg Biennial (1997); and “Cross/ings” at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (1997). At the latter she presented her video (Sin Título) (Untitled), in which she portrays herself shaving her own body hair with an electric razor, thus reflecting on identity and the vulnerability of the codes that usually define our cultural origins.In the video installation “TKO” (2000), produced during her residency at the Artpace Foundation for Contemporary Art de San Antonio (Texas,US), images of a boxer training with a punchbag are superimposed onto others from inside the bag. In this way, the spectator’s eye oscillates from one point of view to the other (aggressor-aggressed), in a clear allusion to the different roles and identities in play in contemporary society.http://www.camwood.org/Cont_Africa/xing.htm   -Exhibitions: “Hitchhiker” at the Generator Art Space, Johannesburg (1996); the Johannesburg Biennial (1997); and “Cross/ings” at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (1997). -Video installation “TKO” (2000),	Culture All Unesco Advanced Search Resources
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