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FESTIVAL CREDITS CONTENTS 2 21 Rotting Treasures Lindokuhle Nkosi and Curator: Jay Pather Africa Centre 3 Curator’s Note Khanyilise Mbongwa Festival Manager: Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton 4 Festival Partners Poetry Pop-Up Shop Badalisha Poetry X-change Financial Manager: Felicia Pattison-Bacon Festival Centre 22 Voyeur Piano Mareli Stolp Curatorial Assistance: Nadja Daehnke Smellscapes Tammy Frazer Technical Managers: Themba Stewart & Ryno Keet 5 PROGRAMME A 23 Store Front and Centre Farzanah Badsha Exhibition Installation: Justin Brett Carpe Minuta Prima (buying) Brian Lobel 6 Back The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative Arts Aweh! Programme Manager: Malika Ndlovu 24 Cubicle Michaelis School of Fine Art Thoriso le Morusu Neo Muyanga Steal My Photograph Lukas Renlund Fundraising: Ivana Abreu 7 Private Moments in Public Spaces * 25 Mosaic Art Spier Arts Academy Office Manager:Ethel Ntlahla Hatch Mamela Nyamza * Invisible Paintings Wojciech Gilewicz Marketing and Publicity: Mango-OMC 8 BDSM Rhine Bernardino * Graphic Design and Layout: Pulling Rabbits The Accumulation is Primitive Pedro Bustamante * 26 PROGRAMME E Website Development: Zero Zero One 9 Couched Shaun Oelf and Grant van Ster * Dark Cell Themba Mbuli * 27 Feed Graeme Lees 10 Wall-Hug Kira Kemper * Uncles & Angels Nelisiwe Xaba and 100 Years of Symphony Cape Town Philharmonic Mocke J van Veuren Orchestra 28 Say Yes or Die Anne Rochat, Gilles Furtwängler and 11 Polite Force Christian Nerf * Sarah Anthony Surveillance Stage Alien Oosting * The Homecoming BALL: bushWAACKing ODIDIVA Executive Director: Tanner Methvin 29 Mechanised Intimacy Rhine Bernardino Board of Directors: Derek Carelse, Adrian Enthoven, 12 PROGRAMME B Centre The Scalabrini Centre Drama Group and Dominique Enthoven, Ralph Freese Rosa Postlethwaite 13 Live Solo Sound Performance Francisco López 30 Ubunye Mzokuthula Gasa Glaciology Anandam Dance Theatre Purge (performance-lecture) Brian Lobel 14 Umjondolo Phumulani Ntuli, Nkateko Baloyi and Pule Magopa 31 PROGRAMME F BodySpectra in the City CityVarsity Art Department 15 The Table Duet and Who Wants to Live Forever 32 Puppet Parade and Performnce Giant Match Bovim Ballet * Association Bystanders Monique Pelser Dance Nation 16 19-Born-76-Rebels Mamela Nyamza and 33 3600 A Day Asanda Kaka and Valentina Argiro Faniswa Yisa Processional Walkway Katie Urban …con tattoo DA MOTUS! 34 Pantsul’amagenge Theatre4Change 17 Going Places Mzokuthula Gasa Emerging Classics South African College of Music Environnement Vertical Compagnie Retouramont 35 Striking the Balance iKapa Dance 18 Urban Resting Place UCT School of Architecture Antjie in Berlin Rudiger Meyer and Jill Richards 36 Argus Nadja Daehnke and Owen Manamela-Mogane PROGRAMME C No Boundaries, Just Music Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble Purge (installation-performance) Brian Lobel 37 Talking Heads Arts Aweh! 19 PROGRAMME D 38 Festival Funders 20 Cosi-Cosi Hannah Bruce, Luvuyo Mgijima and 40 Index Jonathan Eato My Slice Maria van Gass 2 3 AFRICA CENTRE CURATOR’S NOTE INFECTING THE CITY IS PRESENTED BY THE AFRICA CENTRE. A public art festival in South Africa should invariably mirror Ultimately, a public art festival is about art and the public. And the range and complexities of our nation. Our public life is not as long as that public is not just a small group of in- the- know The propaganda is that we don’t have the authority to freely uniformly simple and straightforward as might be that of a small followers of art, but a complex nation of inequality, varying access, express ourselves. Our voice requires permission from someone European town. Our chequered history forces us to be inside varying levels of free time; as long as it is about publics then or something that does. It is our teacher, principal, boss, or a moment that bristles with contradiction: conflict, celebration, the Festival programmes more than just the art works, it also the government official who allows us to dance, sing, paint, dizzying heights and terrible lows. The mourning period following programmes a giddy range of unknowns. photograph, write or simply speak. They tell us when we have Madiba’s death epitomised this: deep sorrow and joyous been selected, picked, or chosen and only then do we stand up. celebration played out equally. Infecting The City this year then is The artists on this programme deserve generous praise. an infection of multiple hues. The best approach, given your time, Performing works that have taken large amounts of time and skill This of course is a myth, but one we all participate in progressing is to engage with several daily programmes. There are works to develop, in spaces that cannot be controlled, to an audience every time we suppress ourselves and avoid the opportunity to that are conceptual, aesthetically complex, whose meanings are that is unpredictable, is the ultimate show of vulnerability and tell our story. Infecting The City, at its core, is intended to disrupt not grasped instantly. And then there are works that grab the courage. This combination of excellence and ability to be open the absurdity that we need permission from anyone to expose our imagination immediately. to a shifting public, is rare and a gift to the City. In this regard, I humanity. Our intentions with this Festival are to bring curiosity, also want to thank and honour the administration, management, wonder, beauty, empathy, pain, and new ideas out into the streets The absence of an overarching theme has allowed a conversation technical support and generous sponsors who make this free for everyone to engage with. To demonstrate that we all have the to develop amongst works. There are themes that will resonate public art festival very possible. right to speak and be heard. With great vulnerability and respect, with our immediate time and place, as well as universal ones. over 300 artists will step into the void of Cape Town’s public space In particular, there are several reflections on the twenty-year The programme follows a series of routes throughout our City. I this year and attempt for one week to transform it into a more democracy that is South Africa, personal desire in public spaces trust that in your explorations, your enjoyment may be more than complex, dynamic, interesting and welcoming place. and cerebral investigations into form and urbanity. just the art works, but also of the engagement with the strangers next to you - of our gloriously complex publics with all its After 20 years of freedom, join us in this liberation. In a public art festival, one would hope that curation is simply the inequities and difficulties, deeply yearning for that glue amongst gathering of works that converse with each other and the City. us to stick and last a little longer than our twenty years. Tanner Methvin - Executive Director: Africa Centre That, however, is a small fraction of the task. The rest resembles something of an abyss in a developing city: from sourcing spaces Jay Pather - Curator: Infecting The City to securing viewing areas for large groups of people, to incorporating logical movement from work to work and public footfall. 2 3 PROGRAMME A PROGRAMME A PROGRAMME A BACK By: THE FORGOTTEN ANGLE THEATRE COLLABORATIVE MONDAY & TUESDAY EVENING | 18:00 – 22:00 10 & 11 MARCH | 18:00 Iziko South African Museum Whale Well 1 Back The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative Duration: 40 min 2 Neo Muyanga Thorisole Morosu Choreographed by PJ Sabbagha, Back is an exploration of the Private Moments in Public Spaces * subtle and dynamic fluidity of immediacy. It flirts with memory and dabbles with desire - a poignant work about love, loss, * 3 Hatch Mamela Nyamza memory, intimacy, jealousy, belonging and isolation. * 4 BDSM Rhine Bernardino Focusing on revealing and unravelling unspoken, often * 5 Pedro Bustamante unconscious, narratives that play out every day, Back reflects the The Accumulation is Primitive space between people and the things that occupy it. The piece * 6 Couched Shaun Oelf and Grant van Ster traces the meandering, dream-like journey that is the reality of relationship. This is a world in which we inhabit each other’s * 7 Dark Cell Themba Mbuli dreams, the many layers of our conscious and the physical world, stitching our stories together in an unpredictable journey through * 8 Wall-Hug Kira Kemper space and time. BREAK PRESTWICH Originally a duet, Back has been recreated as a quartet for 9 100 Years of Symphony Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra PLACE Infecting The City. 10 Polite Force Christian Nerf Performed by: Irven Teme, Charlie van Rooyen, Thami Majela and Nosiphiwo Samente 11 Surveillance Stage Alien Oosting BUITENGRACHT ST BUITENGRACHT ST Presented with the Iziko Education and Public Programmes Department 7.45 pm HANS STRYDOM BREE ST BREE ST R W IE A E C HO S T BEK E T A R R U S K A T T S S N LE A T S H L N D T C O O THORISOLE MOROSU S W T H R N S T A TM R S G T By: NEO MUYANGA L CH T LOOP ST MARK O E A R R S S A K T T N E E T G T 10 & 11 MARCH | 18:50 E S S S T T T Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria St Duration: 20 min LONG S T 11 10 LONG ST HO LWR ORANGE ST LONG ST U Neo Muyanga’s Thorisole Morusu is inspired by, and based 9 T R W BATHS S on, AntjieI Krog's poem Country of Grief and Grace - a poem E A MANDELA T PIER PLACE E HIDDING H GREENMARKET T E 5 that readsB like an intimate and harrowing candid conversation E CAMPUS RHODES SQUARE R K 8 BU RG S T K 3 6 15 ON 2 PLACE A between two people, perhaps siblings or even lovers, about the S N T ORANGE 4 QUEEN VICTORIA ST T pain they have caused one another.