Video Work & Collab Projects
Deborah Weber has being working in performance, video and collaborative practice since the early 2000's. Below are some the video and performance work produced from 2014 to 2021. Each project has been produced with multiple artists from different disciplines including music and film and look at social, political and environmental issues. This work has been shown as installations in galleries, fairs and museums locally and internationally.
Karoo Disclosure is a multimedia, collaborative art project that focuses on the effects of shale gas exploration (fracking) on land, people and the environment, specific to the Karoo, a semi-desert region of South Africa.
Created in 2014, The Karoo Disclosure collaborators include artists working in performance, photography, costume, sound, video, installation and sculpture.
Ubulungiswa/Justice is a collaboration between twenty-three artists from different disciplines. This collaborative artwork was created in 2015 in response to the removal of the Cecil John Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town, the #RhodesMustFall and Open Stellenbosch Movements, combined with the re-eruption of xenophobic attacks and the proliferation of racially fueled discourse in South Africa.
Ilizwe/Nyika Collaboration was produced in 2019 through a residency with Artcollab studio artists at the National Gallery of Bulawayo. This collaboration is a multidisciplinary work investigating different values and ideologies attached to land, national identity and gender in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The project aims to encourage collaboration between South African and Zimbabwean artists across artistic disciplines. Land is a sensitive issue in both countries, with their colonial histories, struggles for independence and forced removals. Land ownership and land rights are still contentious issues in the neighbouring states. Funded by the National Arts Council South Africa, 2020.
Artcollab studio in partnership with the Keiskamma Art Trust present: Ubumbano/Unite Collaboration. This project brought five resident Keiskamma artists together with four visiting artists from Artcollab studio on a week-long residency in Hamburg in the Eastern Cape in February 2021. The artists surfaced Gender Based Violence (GBV) as a largely hidden and unaddressed social issue pertinent at the local village level, and deeply rooted within South African social life. The collaboration is based on first-person lived experiences and represents localised, rural experiences of GBV.