We are open for something that feels a lot like business, minus the money

  Alexander Opper, Negotiation, 2010, Site-specific installation – equal volumes of repositioned soil and lawn from the main courtyard of the Johannesburg Art Gallery and Joubert Park respectively . Image courtesy of the artist.

A huge thanks to everyone who came to the the opening of Time's Arrow at the JAG last night. We had a great crowd, enough wine, and plenty friends from the insect kingdom in the wings to help direct the party elsewhere after nightfall.

This time-based exhibibition has now begun, which means that curatorial changes will start taking place from next Monday, and every Monday thereafter, for the duration of the exhibition, works will be moved, added or removed from the show (please note that the JAG is closed on Mondays). Works to look out for in the coming weeks are James Sey's video installation Sublimation and Reversibility, which uses painting conservation x-rays from the JAG archives as a starting point for an examination of sublimation and sublimity in the formation of art and urban archives; a growing installation by Alexadra Makhlouf, which responds directly to works in the exhibition; and lots more. Watch this blog for updates and documentation of changes.

The work pictured above is Alexander Opper's land work Negotiation. For this work, Alex excavated three square metres of grass from Joubert Park and grafted it into the courtyard of the JAG to spell the word "PARK". The are dug out of the park was then filled with soil from the JAG courtyard to spell the word "Museum". See Alex's page (in the sidebar) for his persctive on this work, and on another work of his on the show, Accumulation #1: approximately a century's worth of cornice dust from the Johannesburg Art Gallery (a huge hit at the opening).