Unusual exhibition and performance spaces give traction to a series of artistic conversations concerning contested issues around space, land and ownership in GIPCA’s LAND – a project considering the centennial of the 2013 Land Act. The event will take place across various spaces in Cape Town, 21-24 November.
Besides dance performances, here are two unusual exhibitions that sound exciting.
While there have been several significant photographic exhibitions related to ‘land’ in 2013, many of these have been presented as historical overviews. Much of the photography that circulates as ‘art’ is also never seen by the general public, and shown in galleries that only few enter. Concerned with a contemporary view on these complex issues and making work available to a wider public, the curators of Terminal – a photographic exhibition on street poles in the Cape Town CBD – have asked artists to provide short stories and ‘sketches’ from or about the City. Curated by Jean Brundrit, Svea Josephy and Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton; participating artists Berni Searle, Lindeka Qampi, Nobukho Nqaba, Sipho Mpongo, Ashley Walters, Dave Southwood, Paul Weinberg, Dominique Edwards, Mandla Mnyakama, Brent Meistre, Svea Josephy, Angus MacKinnon, Kyle Morland and Haroon Gunn-Salie have considered the diverse connotations of Cape Town as ‘terminal’ – the City as related to boundaries, extremities or ends, junctions, possibly something fatal, or even a new growth.
WITNESS, a site-specific exhibition by Haroon Gunn-Salie, occupies a home in Chapel Street, built as part of phase two of the District Six redevelopment programme, allocated to a family of land-restitution claimants.The body of work deals with still unresolved issues of forced removals and land compensation in District Six, and engages in narrative oral history through a series of social sculptures and installations. Gunn-Salie, a recent Michaelis School of Fine Art graduate, created the artworks in collaboration with four District Six veteran residents between 2001 and 2013. Participating collaborators are Ms Susan Lewis, Mrs Fasia Adams, Mr Abubak er Brown and Ms Zelda Hendricks.
LAND will take place at various spaces throughout the City of Cape Town from 21-24 November 2013.
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