JULY AUGUST 2014 programme
OVERVIEW UIA
International Union of Architects World Congress
When
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Joburg Art Fair
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World Design Capital Cape Town
What & Where
29/06/2014 – JOHANNESBURG WORKSHOP IN THEORY AND 11/07/2014 CRITICISM (JWTC) South Africa + Swaziland 10/07/2014 – WHERE PARADISE GROWS 03/08/2014 GOETHE ON MAIN 15/07/2014 FILM SCREENING: SOUL KITCHEN GOETHE-INSTITUT 17/07/2014 – 35TH DURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 27/07/2014 DURBAN 17/07/2014 – WELTSTADT – WHO CREATES THE CITY? 27/08/2014 GOETHE-INSTITUT 28/07/2014 – Interface2012-14 07/08/2014 DURBAN
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29/07/2014 + KIEZKINO 26/08/2014 THE BIOSCOPE INDEPENDENT CINEMA 02/08/2014 – INFORMAL STUDIO: MARLBORO SOUTH WDC UIA 31/08/2014 DURBAN + CAPE TOWN 02/08/2014 – ECOLOGY.DESIGN.SYNERGY 10/08/2014 DURBAN
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FROM Rush Hour 02/08/2014 DURBAN
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14/08/2014 – ‘re-trace [part 3]’ by Karimah Ashadu 07/09/2014 GOETHE ON MAIN 21/08/2014 – COLLECTORS FORUM 24/08/2014 SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE
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22/08/2014 BOOK LAUNCH: JUST ASK! SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE
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21/08/2014 – PEREGRINATE 24/08/2014 SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE
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23/08/2014 BOOK LAUNCH: PONTE CITY JAF SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE + PONTE CITY 28/08/2014 – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – YOUNG 21/09/2014 ARCHITECTS FROM GERMANY MUSEUM OF AFRICAN DESIGN JOIN US FOR GERMAN LANGUAGE COURSES TERM DATES: 16/07/2014 – 23/09/2014
WORKSHOP
Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC)
29/06/2014 – 11/07/2014 Johannesburg, Mbabane, Durban, Ginsberg, Cape Town
Image courtesy of Moshekwa Langa, detail from Marhumbini: In An Other Time mixed media 2011
The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) is an experiment in global conversation based in the South. As part of a ‘mobile workshop’ concept around this year’s theme Archives of the Non-Racial, the 2014 edition will take place in Johannesburg, Mbabane (Swaziland), Durban, Ginsberg and Cape Town. In Johannesburg, the programme will include lectures and conversations with Achille Mbembe, Ahmed Kathrada, Ruja Benjamin, David Goldberg and Siba Grovogui. The 2014 session is run in collaboration with the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and is made possible in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and GIPCA, University of Cape Town. More information on www.jwtc.org.za. Admission: Free
FINE ART/INSTALLATION
Where Paradise Grows
10/07/2014 – 03/08/2014, Opening 10/07/2014, 18H30 GoetheonMain, 245 Main Street, Maboneng Precinct “Future is already here but it hasn’t been distributed equally.” – William Gibson
© Vanessa Miller
Metropolises are shapeshifting. In Where Paradise Grows, curated by Ingrid LaFleur, the causes are being investigated. Inspired by the transformations that are occurring in both Detroit and Johannesburg, the exhibit explores the relationship between complex science and social justice through the work of Detroit-based artist collective Complex Movements. Complex Movements combines the collective talents of visual artist Wesley Taylor; lyricist and activist Invincible; creative technologist Carlos Garcia and music producer Waajeed. For Where Paradise Grows they collaborated with architect Aaron Jones and designed a post-apocalyptic world using art installation, gaming techniques, video projection, interactive hip-hop performance and creative technology. Where Paradise Grows is part of the larger project AFROTOPIA that uses Afrofuturism as a tool for transformative education. More information on www.detroitisafrotopia.com. Admission: Free
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM SCREENING
Soul Kitchen
15/07/2014, 18H30 Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood A restaurant owner finds himself in a lot of trouble in this comedy from director Fatih Akin. Zinos Kazantsakis runs a cheap restaurant called Soul Kitchen in a run-down warehouse district. While the food isn’t very good, a regular clientele shows up each evening for cheap beer and filling food. Bad luck follows Zinos like a shadow, and when his girlfriend Nadine runs off to China, he decides to follow her, putting his brother in charge of the restaurant. However, his brother is a convicted criminal, and before long the city’s underworld has taken over the place and tax collectors are threatening to shut it down. When Zinos returns, he discovers his diner is in shambles. Director: Fatih Akin, 99 min., 2008/2009. Admission: Free
FILM FESTIVAL + WORKSHOP
35th Durban International Film Festival 17/07/2014 – 27/07/2014 Durban 2014 will see the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) return for its 35th anniversary to celebrate the beauty and diversity of global cinema. DIFF presents a feast for the eyes and mind, comprising feature films, documentaries and short films, alongside a comprehensive workshop and seminar programme that facilitates development of the local film industry and the sharing of skills and knowledge among attendees. Industry programmes include the 5th Durban FilmMart and the 7th edition of Talents Durban, which are both proudly supported by the Goethe-Institut. Now in its fifth year, the Durban FilmMart (DFM) is a finance and coproduction market. It aims to bring growth and recognition to the African film industry, creating opportunities to develop strategic relationships between film financiers and African filmmakers. The 7th Berlinale Talents Durban will bring together filmmakers from across the continent to draw inspiration from Africa’s long tradition of story-telling. Through an intensive programme of seminars, workshops and industry networking activities, the continent’s emerging film content creators are assisted in catalyzing their careers and forging relationships with their global counterparts. For more information, please visit www.durbanfilmfest.co.za
EXHIBITION
Weltstadt – who creates the city?
17/07/2014 – 27/08/2014, Opening 17/07/2014, 18H30 Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood Who creates the city? Who shapes its future? In the light of pressing challenges such as global warming, economic crisis, migration and demographic change, this question is crucial.
Photo By Schnepp Renou
Will the city of the future be shaped by the usual experts, decision makers and investors or will new and informal players take the initiative? On a global level, self-driven initiatives and participation are on the rise in urban development processes. Weltstadt – who creates the city? is an initiative of the Goethe-Institut that connects local projects in Riga, New York, Johannesburg, Seoul, Ulan Bator, Belgrade, Dakar, Bangalore, several cities in Brazil and in Southwestern Europe. All these Weltstadt initiatives explore urban visions using a participatory approach to city development. The Johannesburg contribution focuses on Marlboro South, an informal settlement close to South Africa’s economic hub Sandton. Architecture students and residents collaborated on producing maps, documenting living conditions and exploring ways of improving the future of this living environment. The findings of this process were first exhibited at the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg in 2013 and are shown as part of the Weltstadt exhibition. More information on www.goethe.de/weltstadt. Admission: Free
FILM
Kiezkino – Screenings of films from the Goethe-Institut film archive
29/07/2014, 19H30 and 26/08/2014 (time tbc) The Bioscope Independent Cinema, 286 Fox St, Maboneng Precinct KiezKino is a monthly event at The Bioscope Independent Cinema hosted in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. Once a month, a film from the GoetheInstitut film archive is presented at The Bioscope. On 29 July, the programme will focus on director Christian Petzold, with a screening of his film Jerichow, which tells the story of three people who are brought together in Jerichow, a small town in eastern Germany plagued by a population exodus and unemployment. An ex-soldier’s encounter with a couple of Turkish descent – the owner of a chain of snack bars and his enigmatic wife – pushes all three over the edge. On 26 August, Richard Oswald’s 1919 film Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern) will be screened. One of the first gay-themed films in the history of cinema, the movie was banned at the time of its release, later burned by the Nazis and was believed lost for more than forty years. Using recently discovered film segments, still
photos and censorship documents from different archives, Filmmuseum München has resurrected this truly groundbreaking silent film. For booking information please visit the Bioscope website at www.thebioscope.co.za.
ARCHITECTURE
International Union of Architects World Congress
International Union of Architects World Congress (UIA) is a triennial conference that has been hosted internationally since 1948 on a rotational basis, coming to Southern Africa for the first time in 2014. With its focus on architecture in 2014, the Goethe-Institut is supporting a number of international exchanges that coincide with the conference which is taking place from 3 to 7 August in Durban. INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT, Interface2012-14 28/07/2014 – 07/08/2014, Opening 02/08/2014, 16H30
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Durban Interface2012-14 emerges out of Durban-based collective dala’s CityWalk initiative, and forms part of a larger engagement and artistic process. The project aims to conscientise civil society, while creatively engaging the local urban condition. The Interface2012-14 initiatives are focused on unearthing equitable socio-spatial solutions by developing alternative bottom-up ways of better understanding public spaces. Six international and two locally established artists were invited to develop a conceptual methodology, comprising of dialogues and long term objectives that start to explore new possibilities for planning the future city of Durban and, more broadly, cities within South Africa. Interface2012-14’s programme will comprise of a project space and exhibition (Artspace Durban 28 July – 7 August), a colloquium on movement, dialogue and dissidence (4 – 7 August), installations and performances (3 – 7 August), and the photography exhibition Durbanity in dialogue with Durban Centre for Photography (31 July – 1 August). Interface2012-14 is a dala project realized in partnership with the Goethe-Institut South Africa and supported by the National Arts Council and Ethekwini Municipality. EXHIBITION, Informal Studio: Marlboro South 02/08/2014 – 07/08/2014, Opening 02/08/2014, 18H00
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Beerhall, 102 Florence Nzama Street, South Beach, Durban 13/08/2014 – 31/08/2014, Opening 13/08/2014 Open Design Cape Town, City Hall, Cape Town At a time when thinking about housing in South Africa is gradually shifting towards upgrading rather than the eradication of informal
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settlements, the need for suitably experienced professionals, community planners and officials, who can engage in a process of participative planning is becoming increasingly urgent. In response universities and professional bodies have been seeking new modes of education and practice. The travelling exhibition Informal Studio: Marlboro South, first shown in Johannesburg in February 2013, documents a university course on in-situ upgrading developed by 26’10 south Architects with the
Satellite Exhibition at GIfA. Photo by Jeanneke Malan © 26’10 south Architects
University of Johannesburg in 2012. During a seven week period, fifty architecture students worked with community planners (residents) from the informally settled warehouses and open plots in the industrial area of Marlboro South bordering Alexandra Township. The exhibition documents the complexity of the negotiated relationship between students and residents, as well as the challenges and opportunities opened up through a participative approach to planning. EXHIBITION, ECOLOGY.DESIGN.SYNERGY Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar ClimateEngineering
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02/08/2014 – 10/08/2014, Opening 02/08/2014, 18H00 Beerhall, 102 Florence Nzama Street, South Beach, Durban The exhibition ECOLOGY.DESIGN.SYNERGY (EDS) is a collaboration between the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and the AEDES Architecture Forum, with the overarching vision to detach the term “sustainability” from its common quantitative representation by highlighting the aspects of sustainability which can be experienced as qualities in themselves. The ifa and AEDES invited Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar ClimateEngineering to interpret this vision concretely within the context of their work. The practices have been collaborating for many years to develop solutions for a sustainable and responsible architecture based on the belief that high-quality built environments can be realized with a lower consumption rate of natural resources. Highlighting aspects of their projects, the exhibition represents their efforts in assessing the qualitative aspects of sustainability, which emerge through a sustainability-focused and integrated design process. Curator Frank Ockert, accordingly focuses on the human senses in his exhibition design, emphasising this idea in an accessible way.
INSTALLATION, Rush Hour Acknowledging everyday practices
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Opening 02/08/2014, 15H00 Cnr King Dinizulu Rd and Carters Ave (Across from Berea Centre) Umkhumbane (Cato Manor) is located three kilometres away from
the centre of Durban (Warwick Junction), on the edge of N3 national highway. Through an existing informal pedestrian route between periphery and centre, thousands of people walk in order to save the R 5 taxi fare. Along the way a plot of land, leftover from the formal city planning, has become a crossing point to hitchhike from, a place to rest and meet. Raumlabor berlin, an experimental practice, fusing art, architecture and urbanism, with a focus on spatial proposals which are small scale and deeply rooted in the local condition, together with dala, an interdisciplinary creative collective in Durban, are building a roof constructed of used car bodies that will shelter from the sun and rain, but also be a landmark highlighting different uses of, and practices in, space.
EXHIBITION
‘re-trace [part 3]’ by Karimah Ashadu
14/08/2014 – 07/09/2014, Opening 14/08/2014, 18H30 GoetheonMain, 245 Main Street, Maboneng Precinct ’re-trace’ 2014 is a year-long research project exploring notions of narration in relation to place and the artist’s body. Initially developed in France during the first half of 2014, the final instalment titled ‘re-trace [part 3]’ will be realised at the GoetheonMain project space. The work proposes a triadic relationship of performance, drawing and the moving image, and suggests the artist’s body as a kind of projection device. The artist, Karimah Ashadu, choreographs a series of movements inspired by the energy and rhythm of the streets of Johannesburg. ‘re-trace [part 3]’ is made up of various artistic elements including street performance, film and movement drawing. The work is concerned with sentiments of relationships – particularly notions of public and private, and the artist’s body and place. Admission: Free
Painting performance - ‘re-trace [part 1]’ (2014), image courtesy of the artist
VISUAL ARTS
Joburg Art Fair
21/08/2014 – 24/08/2014 Sandton Convention Centre The Joburg Art Fair remains an important annual event on the South African art calendar, as well as within the larger art scene, where it has established itself as a significant market space focused on art from the African continent and diaspora. The Goethe-Institut has been involved since its inception in 2008, furthering critical discourse at the fair and bringing Thabiso Sekgala, ëMadume Gafelií from the series ëSecond Transitioní 2012.
international voices and projects to the programme. Please consult
www.fnbjoburgartfair.co.za for further information and The Talks schedule.
TALKS PROGRAMME, Collectors Forum 21/08/2014 – 24/08/2014
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In partnership with the Joburg Art Fair, the Goethe-Institut supports the second annual Collectors Forum, which aims to gather collectors focused on contemporary art from Africa and supports the building of a network between individuals, public and private collections. The Goethe-Institut participates with a particular focus on collectors from Africa and the diaspora. The support of this initiative is in recognition of the scarcity of such individuals, while their existence is essential in establishing and maintaining a stable art market on the continent.
BOOK LAUNCH, Just Ask! From Africa to Zeitgeist Edited by Simon Njami
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22/08/2014, time tbc What are the significant conversations in African photography today? This alternative art guide book shows current developments and tendencies – a contemporary manual with a sense of humour that speaks to both young and professional photographers, collectors and people interested in photography. Just Ask! is meant to be an introduction to contemporary African photography, and more broadly, a reflection of contemporary practice. There is also a focus on some of the African photographers that participated in the Goethe-Institut Johanneburg’s portfolio workshop, the Photographers Master Class, which has been running since 2008. The richly
illustrated publication is accompanied by essays by renowned authors, curators and art critics. The Goethe-Institut is proud to launch this publication at the Joburg Art Fair with a panel discussion that features some of the contributors to the book and participants in the Master Class programme.
EXHIBITION, Peregrinate Field notes on time travel and space
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21/08/2014 – 24/08/2014 Traversing Soweto streets, backyards in Nairobi, dusty Jordanian alleys, Peregrinate invites viewers to consider the intimate politics of home and belonging, as well as the possibilities inherent in dislocation, or a lack of anchoring, and the routes one takes to find a way. Sub-titled ‘field notes on time travel and space’, the exhibition examines notions of spatial politics, the economics of time and travel, and the kinds of access granted to travellers. The travels of three different wanderers are juxtaposed as temporal sculptures to chronicle the personal experience of journeying within the home, neighbourhood and country, as well as the act of departing for distant places. Peregrinate features the work of three photographers: South Africans Thabiso Sekgala and Musa Nxumalo, and Kenyan Mimi Cherono Ng’ok. The exhibition explores the concept of photography as a common method of investigation, discovery and representation – an act of wandering undertaken by the photographer as traveller and explorer. Jointly curated by the featured photographers, this exhibition is the final stage for the three participants as part of the Goethe-Institut portfolio workshop, the Photographers Master Class.
BOOK LAUNCH, Ponte City By Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse Ponte City, Hillbrow: 23/08/2014, 11H00
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Sandton Convention Centre: 23/08/2014, time tbc Ponte City building is an iconic structure in Johannesburg’s skyline that has long been a symbol for the city itself. Opened in 1976, Ponte has come to represent the best and the worst of Johannesburg, and has generated a particular mythology of city life. South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky and British artist Patrick Waterhouse combine photography, historical archives, found objects, and interviews to create a body of work that spans the pre-history of the building, its spectacular decline, and the recent attempts at its transformation. The building is cast as the central character in a tangled narrative about Johannesburg’s magnetic pull on people from all over the continent. In the artist’s words; “From the beginning, we have been interested in the mythical position of Ponte in Johannesburg’s consciousness, as much as in its history and architecture. Our attempts to understand the psychology, structure and historical narrative of the building have included taking a
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, courtesy of Goodman Gallery
photograph from every window, of every television screen, and of every internal door, as well as the collecting of archival material and forming long-term relationships with its residents present and past.” The work has culminated in the production of a book, of which the Goethe-Institut has been a proud supporter and is pleased to be involved in its launch at the 2014 Joburg Art Fair. The book will be launched with an installation of some of the works at Ponte City itself and with a panel discussion and book-signing taking place at Joburg Art Fair.
EXHIBITION
International Relations Young Architects from Germany
28/08/2014 – 21/09/2014, Opening 28/08/2014, 18H30 Museum of African Design (MOAD), 281 Commissioner Street, Maboneng Precinct The exhibition presents fourteen projects by young architects from Germany that have been completed abroad mainly since 2004. The selected examples from construction, interior design, urban design and landscape architecture show how these architects approach working in foreign environments, how they redefine and add to existing buildings, and how they create new ones under unusual conditions. They come up with sensitive solutions for challenges in architecture today, always with an eye on the future, sustainability, and new technologies. Contrary to today’s global media interest in the spectacular and the star, this exhibition presents innovative architectural projects that confidently and quietly take a pragmatic approach, concentrating entirely on the locations for which they were created. An exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations e. V. (ifa), Stuttgart, in cooperation with the Federal Chamber of German Architects e. V. (BAK), Berlin, Media partner: Deutsche Welle (DW)
FOR YOUR INFORMATION URBAN PLANNING WORKSHOP
Density Syndicate by the African Centre for Cities
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07/07/2014 – 12/07/2014 Various locations in Cape Town Today, South African cities remain fragmented and inconvenient for the less privileged. The current situation is socially, economically and ecologically unsustainable and despite the availability of urban design expertise and policy commitment, there are very few compelling examples of transformation. To address these challenges, the Density Syndicate will explore innovative, alternative strategies for the future of Cape Town, using the combined design intelligence of South African, Dutch and German specialists. The Density Syndicate will develop speculative design plans for several sites in Cape Town that will be exhibited at City Divided / City Desired, opening on 25 October 2014, curated by Edgar Pieterse and Tau Tavenga. Prominent Berlin-based architectural firm, Uberbau, participates in the Density Syndicate with support from the Goethe-Institut. The Density Syndicate is a think-tank initiative by the African Centre for Cities (ACC) and the International New Town Institute (INTI), in collaboration with the City of Cape Town and Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU), with the support of the Goethe-Institut.
WORKSHOP
Writing African Architecture Workshop
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31/07/2014 – 01/08/2014 Durban As part of the International Union of Architects World Congress (UIA), the Goethe-Institut promotes a pan-African exchange in the field of architecture, inviting a number of leading architects from the continent to engage in the conference, as well as hosting a workshop focussed on African authorship in architecture. Naeem Biviji (Kenya), Issa Diabaté (Ivory Coast), Koku Konu (Nigeria), Jean-Jacques Kotto (Cameroon), Lesley Lokko (Ghana/SA), Bisrat Kifle (Ethiopia) and doung Anwar Jahangeer (Mauritius/SA) participate. A special guest will be German curator and architecture historian Andres Lepik.
WORKSHOP
Architecture Camp for High School Students
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03/08/2014 – 09/08/2014 Durban German language learners from six PASCH high schools (Schools: Partners for the Future) in South Africa and Malawi will be meeting for a camp in Durban from 3 to 9 August as part of the UIA congress’ activities. Assisted by Yvonne Graefe from the Bauhaus University in Weimar, they will learn, explore and discuss what their cities, homes and other living spaces look like at the moment and what they could look like in the future.
WORKSHOP
Photographer’s Master Class
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18/08/2014 – 24/08/2014 Goethe-Institut, Joburg Art Fair The Goethe-Institut Johannesburg and Simon Njami initiated the Photographer’s Master Class in 2008 as a forum for emerging African photographers to meet with curators from the continent and further afield. The workshop as a closed portfolio reading has been taking place annually since and is structured to privilege a peer review process and informal master class, with time dedicated also to individual portfolio review. In 2014 Akinbode Akinbiyi, Frédérique Chapuis, John Fleetwoood, Simon Njami and Katrin Peters-Klaphake participate, with twelve photographers from Cameroon, DRC, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan and Uganda. This long-term project is designed to encourage professional engagement between curators and photographers, enable networking across the region and encourage critical discourse around photography as practice. The workshop is always set to coincide with a major art or photography event on the continent, which provides a further framework for engagement and exposure. This year it coincides with the Joburg Art Fair.
ONLINE MUSIC PLATFORM
MUSIC IN AFRICA
The much-awaited web portal dedicated to the African music sector Music In Africa is now online at www.musicinafrica.net. With a vision to be the leading source of information and exchange in the
African music sector, Music In Africa is a groundbreaking web platform that allows users to enhance their knowledge of African music scenes while effectively networking and promoting their work for free. Music In Africa is an initiative by Siemens Stiftung and the Goethe-Institut, together with partners from across Africa. It is owned and governed by the Music In Africa Foundation, a registered nonprofit organisation with members in different parts of Africa.
ARTISTIC RESEARCH AND EXCHANGE
NINE URBAN BIOTOPES
JULY – SEPTEMBER 2014 Nine Urban Biotopes (9UB) brings together artists and urban practitioners working in cities in Europe and South Africa from January through September 2014. They engage in a working process that combines cultural exchange with artistic research and production, in order to reflect upon global processes and their local impacts. The artist-in-residence program between practitioners in Johannesburg, London and Berlin is moving into its third trialogue. From early July, three more projects will kick off and run simultaneously until the end of September 2014. In the third trialogue Terry Kurgan explores the phenomenon of co-housing cultures in Berlin, while at the same time Anthony Schrag collaborates with local neighborhoods in three innercity districts of Johannesburg, and Ra Hlasane shares radical forms of pedagogy and self-devised curricula with a group of young people in South London. Every project includes an integrated reporter who communicates the ongoing process through various channels. You can visit www.urban-biotopes.net to follow their progress.
INTERCULTURAL ARTS NETWORK
Arterial Network’s Artwatch Africa project
With national chapters in 40 countries, Arterial Network is one of the largest intercultural networks in Africa, comprising individuals and organizations across all artistic disciplines. Alongside a range of projects geared towards growing and strengthening the cultural and creative sectors, Arterial last year produced an initial Artwatch Africa report on freedom of creative expression for artists in Africa. Through workshops, public seminars, monitoring and information, Artwatch Africa aims to empower local civil society actors in the arts, culture and human rights sectors to promote the rights of artists and contribute to democracy.
Artwatch Africa is supported by Swedish Postcode Lottery, Swedish Foundation for Human Rights, Swedish Institute, Mimeta, Goethe-Institut, Doen Foundation.
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