Unseen Art Scene

Monday, 25 June 2012

Match of the Day by Joe Pollitt

PROSPER & GAMBLE PREMIER AFRICANSHIP:

POS LP CLUB P W D L GF GA GD PTS (0)

0 - (0) Lagosea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Dollarsville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Oilbarons United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) IC Kampla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) UC Wasswa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) IAXE Dakar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) African County 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Cellphone Stolen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Careless City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) West Kihikos Album 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Ghettos Rising 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Worlds United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) AC Accra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Laptop Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Clottey Art Wins 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Massai Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Pangas United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Fighting Begins 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Cairo Athletic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Brotherhood City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Mobiles United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Media Mental 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Terror United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Disaster Ahead 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Sterling Nervous 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) City Crashing 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

0 - (0) Poverty United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0)

POS LP CLUB P W D L GF GA GD PTS

G A M E O N

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

EGYPTIAN SCENE IN TOKYO

Artist: Moataz Nasreldin Title: Cairo Walk Material: Photography on board Location: Mori Museum in Tokyo Date: 2012

EGYPTIAN SCENE IN TOKYO

Moataz Nasr,

the Egypti-an;

the ARTIST,

is in Jap-an -

He has the whole wide world,

on their knees and at his feet...

for Jap-an Loves, the afriCAN!

BIG KISS,

Don't sneeze in Japanese...

All are on their knees...

Sneezing and snoring in JAPAN---

STARING and CARING FOR THE afriCAN!

WE LOVE JAPAN,

BIG KISS.

For Japan has a plan for the afriCAN...

What a man and WOE-Man is she in JAPANESE.

What ease, has she who pees and sees those,

fellows few, that pen with ease in JAPANESE.

WE LOVE YOU IN JAPAN - MAN - Wooh-Man -

We, the afriCANS LOVE THE JAPANESE

with ease,

BIG KISS.

by Joe Pollitt, 2012

South African Beauty Queen | Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela

Beauty Seen

We are searching for a rhythm,

that will do justice to this work.

South Africa has a Beauty Queen.

Eyes blink open. Eyes wide shut.

Eyes forward, eyes on-the-prize.

All lies open and shutting your eyes.

Are we seeing what beauty is yet?

Senzeni seen, Senzeni Scene.

See Senzeni and Senzeni is seen.

Beauty has a name this day, Senzeni.

Our Queen, has an open face to talk.

In the quiet, closed black world of Dolls.

So ask again, what is Beauty seen?

Eyes shut so tight, fight for the right

to be seen in the Scene. Bright Light.

Senzeni is softly breaking into the Art

seen. Making her debut inner heart-beat,

beating and rattling, rite up to the top.

The voice of reason, seems frightened,

fearful she may fail, in the seen and

never seen, World of Guys and Dolls.

Drum her a beat, that makes some

kind of sense to steady her might.

Showing all that is clean and unseen.

Size Zero, up to our necks in legs.

Tits and arse and comments left.

Charcoal Dolls; wiping eyes; weep.

Beauty Seen. Senzeni's Scene. See

The snakes are hissing at the Bibles.

Spyballs. Eye-balls. Works never seen.

Those never willing, to see the obvious.

To see the Beauty that is Senzeni.

New works of Art by Senzeni seen.

by Joe Pollitt, 2012

South African Beauty Queen | Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela

Saturday, 16 June 2012

CRASHING INTO NOTHING

I am crashing down around my feet.

Falling, falling down to the earth

without a parachute and diving into

a pool of my own tears. The shame of

me is unbearable to see; as all the hard

words and long hours of thinking amounts

to nothing, as I am pen-full but powerless.

I am not breaking down, I am broken...

and in many pieces. I am not the broken
wine bottle that fell from your dinning table.
I am the wine spilt all over your magnificent marble floor.

The mess that you need to mop up; to make

our house a home again; of course you could just

leave the stain as it is...and never mop the mess....

leaving it as that funny African-shaped stain

on your blue-veined white marble floors.

By Joe Pollitt

When the Leaders are worthless, the artists are Royalty that reign.

So I ask you again, who have I been communicating with in Africa?

I have been talking to Kings and Queens of a Continent.

Don't play with me. I am not a toy to be played with.

I know many Kings and Queens of Africa.

Your family, your Kingdom is nothing.

Lost in Translation by Alex da Silva | Cape Verde

We know the true Kings and Queens of AFRICA.

Reduce us to a nothing in your great Western World.

Crush us to a grain of sand but that grain of

sand still knows the KINGS AND QUEENS of AFRICA.

Artists are immortal and we know the immortals, personally.

Untitled by Eria Sane Nsubuga | Uganda

Reduce us to dust and we will rise. You can not, and will not, break our spirit; as so long as we have breath we breathe, we'll speak and write about all those under-seen; never-heard and so ignored for Centuries.

Me Time by Queen Sheila | Uganda

The Africans are now in your living rooms. Spy on us all. Apple-pie on all of us. See us as clearly as humanly possible.

Letters from Joe Pollitt

The afriCANS UNITE

I CANNOT TALK FOR YOU...I KNOW NOT WHAT TO SAY..

I NEED YOUR CRIES AFRICA..I NEED YOU TEARS TODAY.

TODAY IS THE DAY WE SET OURSELVES FREE, SO UNITE

AS ONE AFRICA UNITED...WE ARE ONE..WE TWO..WE FREE..

WE ARE UNITED..AFRICA UNITED..THE AFRICANS HAVE GUNS..

FUNDS FOR ALL...TO SEE..

PISS ON THIS IF YOU DARE..JUST STARE AND STAY

AWAY AS GOD IS ON THE WIRE...

IT IS FIRE ON THE WIRE...

THERE IS FIRE ON THE WIRE TONIGHT....

YOU ARE WATCHING THE REVOLUTION BEGIN..

IT'S BRIGHT..IT'S LOUD AND WE ARE IN...

IN THEIR FUCKING FACES WE ARE IN...

BOOK NOW FOR DISAPPOINTMENT..

WE ARE IN...WE ARE NOT ALONE!