X-CAPE PROGRAMME
A) LANGA/GUGULETHU/KHAYELITSHA/STELLENBOSCH
B) FORESHORE/DE WATERKANT/CBD
C) WOODSTOCK/SALT RIVER/OBS/RONDEBOSCH
OA) OUTLYING AREAS
PO) PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS/ONLINE
SP) SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
PO) PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS/ONLINE
PO1) AS - IF
Paul Hendrikse
Date and times revealed closer to time
http://www.greatmoreart.org/visting_artists_cv/paul_hendrikse.htm
Artist Paul Hendrikse focuses on the phenomena taking place in the periphery of our attention. Using urban space as an archive, he collects information that he transforms into works that challenge the centre-periphery divide. His new work is literally and figurative a multiple storey proposition that transforms high-rise buildings in the city centre into open-ended impromptu artworks. Visit www.greatmoreart.org/visting_artists_cv/paul_hendrikse.htm for updates and info.
PO2) ARTHEAT
Artheat
24/3-2/5 ongoing
Art parties 23/3 and 4/4
8pm until late
www.artheat.blogspot.com + The Waiting Room Upstairs Royale Eatery, 273 Long
Street
021 422 4536 / 0794936554
ArtHeat (www.artheat.blogspot.com) is a Cape Town based contemporary art gossip blog that has gained a reputation for its flagrant tabloid content, biting criticism, political-incorrectness and precocious art-school attitude. It will be providing all the juice on CAPE and X-CAPE, as well as throwing art parties at The Waiting Room, upstairs from Royale Eatery, 273 Long Street 23/3 and 4/4, and providing an online exhibition space. Visit the blog for information.
PO3) CITIBIRD PERFORMANCE
Coastline Creative Productions
14/4 at Observatory Community Centre Theatre, 22/4 at Zula Bar
At unannounced times
Observatory Community Centre, Off Lower Main Road, entrance on Collingwood Road
and Zula Bar at 196 Long Street
083 872 4480
With its crazy art antics the Citibird has become something of a cultural icon in Cape Town. Citibird returns to spice up the performance and film screenings presented by Sandie Banda of Citibird Creative Arts during X-CAPE. Bird lovers be warned: you may also spot the bird at other venues during X-CAPE.
PO4) COMING HOME
Janet Ranson
24/3-2/5
All hours
www.multimediations.org/janet
Janet Ranson's blog takes an unashamedly playful, pop approach to complicated art-world issues, specifically the complex balance of power between local artists and visiting international cultural practitioners. The work records the fictitious adventures of a group of plastic toy, made-in-China frogs who migrate to Cape Town where they fall victims to misinformation and meet untimely and sad deaths.
PO5) HERITAGE CACHE
Cobus van Bosch and Arlene Amaler-Raviv
24/3 - indefinitely
Table Mountain: GPS coordinates to be announced on website
www.geocaching.com
Heritage Cache is an addition to the phenomenon of "geocoaching", a global adventure activity that sends participants on a GPS treasure hunt to find hidden caches. In the Heritage Cache 20 objects representing Cape heritage, selected by a leading South African artist are hidden on Table Mountain. The Longitude and Latitude co-ordinates of the spot where the cache can be found are: 18 degrees 23'40.10 E and 33 degrees 56'54.88 S. Objects were chosen by: William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Willem Boshoff, Lien Botha, Willie Bester, Brett Murray, Churchill Madikida, Gordon Froud, Raymond Smith, Cobus van Bosch, Arlene Amaler-Raviv, Sanell Aggenbagh, Dale Yudelman, Norman O’Flynn, Liza Grobler, Conrad Botes, Andrew Porter, Kevin Brand, Adrienne van Eeden, Inge du Plessis and Leonard Wichtmann. Visit www.geocaching.com to start hunting.
PO6) INFEST CAPE
Organism
24/3 - 2/5
Unspecified times
Various CAPE venues
Part art flash-mob, part rhizomic social manoeuvre, part visual virus, Organism is a loosely organised, fast growing group of artists drawn from a cross section of society. Using military swarm tactics, viral growth strategies and corporate branding tools they gather at predetermined locations to spread the data dis-ease and infect new hosts. They are now targeting CAPE.
PO7) KOEBERG
Anthony Strack
West Coast Highway - Date and times revealed closer to time
http://web.mac.com/digitalbrothers/iWeb/Koeberg/Home.html
Photographer Anthony Strack draws attention to the looming presence of Koeberg through a large 6x7m site-specific billboard featuring a photographic image of the power station. Situated on the West coast highway just a short distance from Koeberg, the work provides a bold, necessary reminder of the often overlooked structures of power that influence our everyday lives.
PO8) QUEEN PROJECT
Happenstance
27/3-7/4
Various undisclosed sites in and around Cape Town
http://queenproject.blogspot.com/
083 391 0444
Queen Elizabeth II gets deconstructed and reconstructed though a series of unexpected interventions and interactions in and around Cape Town. The work forms the first in a series of framed conversations staged in commonwealth countries, responding to the Queen Elizabeth II persona. Watch out for Queen Elizabeth II at the beach, on the mountain, in newspapers, hotel, taxi ranks and shop-fronts.
PO9) SOUNDING OUT
Kathy Coates in collaboration with Voyage Ensemble
4/4 from 6pm, then Mon-Fri 10-4pm until 20/4
Scalabrini Centre
Cnr Buitenkant and Darling Street + 47 Commercial Street, Cape Town
021 465 6433
Sounding Out is a collaborative sound installation that gives voice to a selection of the artists participating in X-CAPE. Fragmented pieces of conversations dealing with displacement, xenophobia and personal transitions in space and time are recorded, edited and fed back through speakers strategically placed in close relation to the art works under discussion.
PO10) SUCCESSION DEBATE
Brendhan Dickerson
8pm Saturday 31 March
Next to the Moravian Church, behind the Technikon, District Six (parking on
Keizersgracht Str)
Admission free
http://www.home.intekom.com/dickerson
082 777 8937
This Fire-Sculpture performance entitled Succession Debate consists of five kinetic fire sculptures which will "come to life' as they are ignited, jumping, swinging, bucking and dancing out their short but dramatic life cycles in a choreographed sequence of interactions. The images themselves, drawn from popular culture and mythology are intended to evoke an intangible satire.
PO11) TOWN: 'E JOZI'
Lorenzo Nassimbeni
Date and times revealed closer to time
http://www.lorenzonassimbeni.blogspot.com/
town:e jozi exposes the hidden realities of inner-city urban Johannesburg. Comprising of photographs and line-drawings it focuses upon the built environment as back-drop to the people, words and hidden histories that comprise the city.
PO12) UNTITLED
Doing It For Daddy
24/3 - 31/3
Undisclosed times
Undisclosed venues
Doing It For Daddy, a collective of creative practitioners hell bent on challenging existing perceptions and attitudes in the visual arts, instigate a series of sniper events centred around CAPE and X-CAPE exhibition venues in the city centre. Expect guerrilla art stalls, spontaneous prize givings and an emergency escape route on opening night.
PO13) WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING HERE?
phrank
24/3-2/5
Various venues + blogspot
What Is Actually Happening Here? implores the witnesses to provide their own answers to the question. By being brutal and phrank, the artist begs for all citizens to ignore the effects of crime no longer. Why is violence in all sectors of our society being denied –and worse yet – condoned by those who should be protecting us? What is actually happening here? Look out for protestors wearing t-shirts at other Trans-Cape and X-Cape events as well as a special edition where we get phrank about violence. Refer to http://phranksa.blogspot.com
