Scope and Contents In Boshoff's exhibition "Epat" at Michael Stevenson's gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, Kykafrikaans was presented as a recording (present dvd). In its original forms, the poems were a series of unique typed scripto-visual pages as well as an edition of screenprints. Boshoff intended that they should be performed in order to give affective scope to the acoustic potential of the original work. Until 2006, this aspect of Kykafrikaans remained largely informal. Professional recordings of the readings of selected poems from Kykafrikaans were produced between 2006 and 2007 at the Wounded Buffalo studios in Johannesburg. The nearly 30 recordings deploy the voices of Marcel van Heerden, Jane Rademeyer, Lochner de Kock, Hermien de Vos and Boshoff himself. On entering the sparse white space of the installation of Michael Stevenson's gallery within the larger Epat exhibition, the scripto-visual images of Kykafrikaans were projected onto a screen. The appropriate recording accompanies each...

Scope and Contents In Boshoff's exhibition "Epat" at Michael Stevenson's gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, Kykafrikaans was presented as a recording (present dvd). In its original forms, the poems were a series of unique typed scripto-visual pages as well as an edition of screenprints. Boshoff intended that they should be performed in order to give affective scope to the acoustic potential of the original work. Until 2006, this aspect of Kykafrikaans remained largely informal. Professional recordings of the readings of selected poems from Kykafrikaans were produced between 2006 and 2007 at the Wounded Buffalo studios in Johannesburg. The nearly 30 recordings deploy the voices of Marcel van Heerden, Jane Rademeyer, Lochner de Kock, Hermien de Vos and Boshoff himself. On entering the sparse white space of the installation of Michael Stevenson's gallery within the larger Epat exhibition, the scripto-visual images of Kykafrikaans were projected onto a screen. The appropriate recording accompanies each...

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In her review of the exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, Turner writes, "African artists have proved especially adept at using language in beautiful but provocative ways...Willem Hendrik Adriaan Boshoff of South Africa, who condenses handwritten and typewritten text into minuscule characters, such as his 1979 work written while in prison as a conscientious objector to apartheid. Some of his tiny letters are legible, while others are defiantly obscure. In ways both good and bad, they become a metaphor for the range of art in "Global Conceptualism." The work described, the manuscript for "Kykafrikaans," was lent to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This postage size bit of micrography is a column of ten Afrikaans words. The photostats are enlargements of the micrographic words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This rectangular shaped poem is laid out such that all the lettters fill the lines with no spaces in-between the words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author states that Boshoff's typewriter, concrete poetry book entitled "KykAfrikaans" is one of the most remarkable books ever published in South Africa. Twelve pages of this book deal with the making of "KykAfrikaans" along with representative images. The published book as well as the original typings are held by the Sackner Archive. Vladislavic also describes and provides reproductions of Kleinpen I and Bangboek. The former is held in its entirety by the Sackner Archive; for the latter, one original page, photocopied pages of the remainder, and the code decipher are held by the Sackner Archive. In the postscript essay, Ivan Vladsilavic declares, "In recent years, Boshoff has become one of South Africa's most visible, successful artists. This has awakened interest in his early works, such as KykAfrikaans and Bangboek, which have been shown internationally after long obscurity. He continues to make dictionaries." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Boshoff's work. Boshoff writes that his inspiration for concrete poetry was his passion for crossword puzzles. Boshoff writes (page 23) in an lengthy biographical interview with Warren Siebrits the following: In early 1996, I visited the book artist Robbin Silverberg taking with me a silkscreen print of a poem from KYKAFRICAANS to thank her for the hospitality and kindness she showed me. She didn't seem to like it very much, and suggested we take it to show to the artist book dealer Toni Zwicker.Toni was already quite elderly, but it was amazing to see how excited she became about this work from KYKAFRICAANs that I has made 15 years earlier. As it happened, the great American collector, Marvin Sackner, from Miami, visited Toni's home while we were there. He became so enthusiastic that he decided on the spot to buy the original manuscript of the 99 A4 typed pages that constitute KYKAFRICAANS, and invited us to go and visit him...