Archive: Issue No. 44, April 2001
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This is a free space for the exchange of information of general interest to artists. ArtThrob reserves the right to edit contributions.
This week's new listings:
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24.04.01 PPSA Social Evening
The Western Cape PPSA is holding its monthly social evening on Thursday May 3 at 6pm at:
Daylight Drive in Studio, 49 Upper Bloom Street, Cape Town
There will be a mystery talk, snacks and a cash bar.
PPSA members R10
This is a great opportunity to meet up with other photographers and have a good ol' chin wag
RSVP to either geofk@xrystal.co.za or wjwess@icon.co.za
'Softsell', this year's incarnation of 'Softserve, which takes place at the South African National Gallery, is set to happen in September this year. The project differs somewhat from its predecessors and will be launched at this event called 'Jumpstart'. If you intend to produce work for 'Softsell' or if you are just interested don't miss this meeting. Watch this space for news of the event, further contact details etc.
The Jumpstart takes place on Thursday May 10 from 6.30 - 8pm in the Annexe Hall (upstairs), in the parking lot adjacent to the SANG, Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town. Doors close at 6.30 sharp.
Contact Andrew Putter andrewputter@hotmail.com for more info.
24.04.01 5th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints
For established and aspiring printmakers, this triennale comes recommended by the Association of Arts, Pretoria. Information on the events, which offers some very substantial prize money, is available at the following website: www.tosawashi.or.jp
Entry forms and other necessary forms are provided on the site. Those applying should contact the organisation (details below) by fax, email or snail mail. Entry forms will not be sent by fax or email however - these must be dowloaded from the website. Deadline for entries is 31 October 2001.
Enquiries can be addressed by email to toawasi@basil.ocn.ne.jp or by post to:
Kochi Pref. Handmade Paper Coop Union
Fax : 088 892 4168
24.04.01 Summer Workshops in the Netherlands
Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University
Once again the AMSU is presenting two courses in the field of art history this summer in Amsterdam and Maastricht. The courses are designed for professional artists, arts managers, academics, who wish to expand their training in their specific or related professions/ field of study. The AMSU offers a unique opportunity for international networking and practical experience with high quality course leaders and organisation.
The Painter's Palette in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Pigment Preparation and Painting Technology (Maastricht, the Netherlands, 10-18 July 2001), in collaboration with the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (Limburg Conservation Institute).
Recent Developments in the Study of 17th-Century Dutch Art (Amsterdam and
The Hague, 12-24 August 2001), in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in The Hague.
The programme covers a wide range of topics and includes lectures, workshops and excursions to monuments and public and private art collections. This course is intended for graduate students and professional art historians specialising in the field of Netherlandish art.
For more information on both courses please contact Justine Smithuis at the
Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University:
Tel: +31 20 6200225
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10.04.01 International Art Exchange Resource
'Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art Information and communication system on the arts of Africa, the Americas and Asia/Pacific' is a resource with information on art institutions, projects and residency programmes etc. They are currently renewing their directories of annotated links on the arts of particular countries or regions. Most recently, they have updated and broadened the African and Mexican directories:
Africa
Mexico
In the service area for international art exchange, there are 25 new entries in:
Founded in 1997, Artists in Cellophane is an art group that converts retired cigarette machines into fine art vending machines. Roughly 100 artists are presently involved in this project. A.I.C. donates a portion
of profits to an arts-magnet elementary school. Please check out artomat.org for more info.
Art*o*mat locations:
The New Museum of Contemporary Art [NYC]
Past Art*o*mat locations:
The Andy Warhol Museum [Pittsburgh, PA]
All machines carry small original artworks roughly the size of a pack of smokes @ $3.00-$5.00 each.
Email: blueye26@hotmail.com
16.01.01 Website, Desktop Publishing, Fine Art and Photography courses offered at The Ruth Prowse
Part-time course in Creative Internet Design,
Who should attend? Anyone wishing to focus on combining artistic creativity with progressive technology, with the intention of entering the dynamic field of New Media Design. The course is designed to give students a solid foundation for creating functional, well-designed web sites. Students will produce their own web site using the most advanced technology available.
Computer literacy and a basic understanding of the internet is an advantage.
The course is run by a dynamic team of experienced and successful designers and artists who are actively involved in both the local New Media industry as well as in the South African Fine Art world. Students are thus ensured both a cross-pollination of creative ideas and skills, as well as enriching, open tuition.
Admission is based on:
For further information or to enrol, call the Ruth Prowse on 021 447 2492.
Clickthrough for a full description of all the Full and part time courses available at the Ruth Prowse, most of which commence in April 2001, and are:
Part time course in Web Animation
One-year certificate course in Visual Arts
09.01.01 Photography Mailing Lists
There is the most incredible photo resource on the internet at RIT. You will find a variety of online photographic mailing lists for those who are interested in current debate on almost any photo topic. There are photojourn, pinhole, street photo, art photo, astra photo, photo philosophy and many others to check out on the RIT site. As a black-and-white printing resource, the pure silver list is an amazingly useful discussion forum. You will find discussion groups listed at www.rit.edu/~andpph/photolists.html
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17.04.01 Worldwide Contest for Streetcar-Design
For five months, creative talents from around the world have been invited to submit their visions of workand life in the near future as design proposals for display on streetcars (trams), which will run on thestreets of D�sseldorf, Germany, in October 2001. At the request of many artists, the closing date for entries has been extended to May 31, 2001. The winners - one artist from each continent - will each receive an award of US$ 7500 from the sponsor of the contest. The sponsor is a multinational company whose identity will be announced on the conclusion of the contest.
The contest is held under the patronage of the German Multimedia Association. An international jury consisting of experts in the fields of arts and business will meet in late June and select the five best designs from all submissions.
Concept and design of the contest web site have been created by turn-key GmbH, a multi-media agency based in Ratingen, Germany. For further information or technical questions, please contact Oliver Mau of turn-key GmbH :
Tel: +49 2102 997 02
17.04.01 Call for New Media Artists
JavaMuseum Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art www.javamuseum.org has launched its first online project entitled '1st of Java - Perspectives on New Media' (JAVA= Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
Artists working on web-based projects are invited to submit their excellent works in the categories Flash, Html, Java, Javascript, Dhtml, VRML, Quicktime and Miscellaneous (technologies which do not fit into the aforementioned categories).
The project has no specific subject, but intends to spotlight the actual artistic working with new media technologies. Until May 15, continuous pre-selections will be held. The pre-selected artists will be posted on the listings. A final selection will determine those artists who will participate in monthly shows from June 2001 on, each time other featured artists will be presented. Each artist can submit up to three works in each category. Participation is free of any charge.
To submit an artwork, the submission page can be accessed directly: www.javamuseum.org/firstofjava.htm
New deadline - May 15
To contact JavaMuseum send an email to info@javamuseum.org
20.03.01 Call for entries: 13th Videobrasil
SESC São Paulo and Associação Cultural Videobrasil are calling for entries for the Competitive Video Screening and New Media Show of the 13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival. The closing date for entries is May 1rst 2001.
This year, besides the traditional Competitive Video Screening, another competition will be held for the first time, open to artists of all parts: the Competitive New Media Show, which will award prizes to artistic works in CD-ROM and Web Art formats.
Prizes amounting to a total of sixty thousand reais (R$ 60.000, 00) will be awarded between competitors of the two shows by professionals of the area, assembled in an international jury nominated by the Festival organisers, alongside the habitual popular jury.
The Festival opens on Wednesday the 19th of September, at the traditional SESC-Pomp�ia site. The Video Screening and New Media Show, the performances, lectures and meetings with the artists will take place up until the 23rd of September. The exhibitions, Video Library, Media Lounge and Bookshop will be open until the 21rst of October. Other venues, such as Pa�o das Artes, will extend the Festival's circuit.
News about the 13th Videobrasil will always be on the Festival's Web page:
27.03.01 Save The Ruth Prowse Exhibition
As part of very necessary ongoing fund-raising, The Ruth Prowse school (previously known as the Ruth Prowse School of Art and Design) is calling for donations of artworks for a high profile 'Save The Ruth Prowse' Exhibition to be held later in the year. Works donated and not sold during the exhibition will be subsequently auctioned. The proceeds of all work sold go towards the 'Save The Ruth Prowse Art Fund'. The invitation to donate artworks is extended to all South African artists who have an interest in the saving and future development of a South African Art School.
For further information please contact Mignon, Diana or Sue at The Ruth Prowse:
The University Print Society (print club) at Iowa State University is sponsoring a print exchange and we would like to invite as many people to participate as we can. Please encourage friends and students alike to consider sending prints. The prospectus reads as follows:
The postal system has changed drastically over time. As the days go by more and more communication is being sent digitally via the internet. Less and less letters are sent using the traditional postal system. There are even electronic greeting cards and post cards. Printmaking has undergone similar changes. Much of the printmaking process can now be done using computers.
In response to the changing world from traditional to digital, the University Print Society has created the Postcard Print Exchange. We ask that participants use any method of printmaking, digital or traditional, to create thirteen 4" x 6" (10 x 15cm) postcards and for the prints to respond to the theme of mail. The prints will be sent to us as postcards through the mail using a (US) 20 cent postcard stamp.
The University Print Society will keep one of your postcards for our collection and will send 12 different prints back to you. We feel that this will be a fun and exciting exchange. Since the prints will be sent using
traditional post mail service the prints will become altered in interesting ways such as the post stamp from different states, codes stamped by the postal service, and fingerprints from handling.
Guidelines:
- Prints will be 4" x 6" (10 x 15cm) and can be done using traditional or digital printmaking processes.
Mail to: April Katz, University Print Society, 158 College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50014, USA
Questions/Comments: aljoy@iastate.edu or psycho1@iastate.edu
13.03.01 Vancouver Videopoem 3rd Annual Festival
The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is seeking videopoem submissions for the Vancouver Videopoem Festival - the only screening event of its kind in Canada. Get public exposure and have your work screened in a premier public venue - Pacific Cinematheque, November 8-11, 2001. We are interested in any original, creative combination of poetry with material on videotape. Cinepoems are also acceptable provided they are transferred onto videotape format.
This event provides a much needed venue for the presentation of Canadian work in this burgeoning art form. The most innovative treatments are explored and presented. The selection of works is a broad range of mostly Canadian artists, a smaller amount of international artists and a diversity of poetic styles and video strategies. The EEC aims to develop a forum for defining, legitimizing and nuturing work in this hybrid genre and the artists who produce it in Canada. The festival components include SEE THE VOICE-a Poetry Video Workshop, two or three screenings, an awards gala and a night of performance-STAGED & CREENED, Mixed Media Cabaret-wherein poets interact with their videopoems by incorporatiing elements of dance, theatre and music.
DEADLINE: June 1, 2001
To obtain an official VVF 2001 Submission Application Form, contact Executive Director, Heather Haley @ (604) 535-8588 or visit our web site www.edgewisecafe.org
If accepted into the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, all successful entrants will receive a screening fee and be eligible for VVF 2001 awards. The giving of awards is intended to recognize outstanding merit and to offer the public and artists a developing standard for vidopoetry in these categories:
-Best Videopoem The Edgewise Award
The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is a non-profit arts organization whose
mandate is to make poetry accessible to all members of society through a
variety of media and educational programs. Digitized videopoems can be viewed in the Multimedia section of the Edgewise site. Funding for the Vancouver Videopoem Festival has been received from the
Canada Council for the Arts and is produced in partnership with Pacific
Cinematheque
Heather Haley-Executive Director
Edgewise ElectroLit Centre
The EEC is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to make poetry accessible to all members of society through a variety of media and educational programs.
Tel: (604) 535-8588 FAX (604) 536-3691
13.03.01 Site specific sculpture for Italy
The Chianti Sculpture Park is currently being established in Tuscany,
Italy. Since the area of Chianti, in Tuscany, is both renowned for its
artistic and historical traditions and for its nature, the Park requires
very site-specific installations.
We are in the process of sourcing site-oriented sculptors from all over
the world, especially from Eastern Europe, North America and Latin America.
All the sculptural ideas and projects will be screened by the Artistic
Committee of the Park.
The selection will be mainly based on how site specific the artwork will
be. We kindly request interested artists to send us a few photos of their
works. We will contact the selected artists and guarantee a return air
ticket to Italy with the aim of visiting personally the Park to choose a
site for their installation.
The participating sculptors will be given enormous exposure to high
profile visitors and will be exhibiting along with internationally noted
artists. Compensation arrangements will be evaluated case by case by the
Park Administration. Please feel free to contact us for any further
information at:
Mr Piero Giadrossi or Mrs Federica Vezzani
Phone: ++39 0577 357151
06.03.01 Joubert Park Public Art Project Submissions Invited
Joubert Park is one of the few original 'green' spaces in inner city Johannesburg and furnishes the needs of many local communities. It is a meeting ground for religious groups, home to the homeless, business environment for the park photographers and street vendors, and a place of leisure for chess players and commuters and also a playground for children. It houses a medical clinic, cr�che, greenhouse, Neighbourhood Community Centre, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG).
The precinct has undergone dramatic changes in the last decade. The relocation of businesses, urban decay, increased crime, overuse, ineffective policing, absence of funding, and lack of public awareness and interest have left the park in a state of neglect.
Despite its problems the Joubert Park precinct is one of the city's most vibrant areas and these issues need to be visualised, verbalised and made public. They need to be addressed in engaging and critical ways so as to re-imagine the inner city of Johannesburg. In so doing the 'Joubert Park Public Art Project' aims to identify and engage with the conditions, the changes and possibilities of inner city living in Johannesburg.
The Joubert Park Public Art Project seeks to identify, engage and rejuvenate the park by promoting and supporting cultural and social initiatives and organizations, setting up an active link and connection between the park and Johannesburg Art Gallery, investigating and promoting the relation of the park to its urban surroundings, and exploring the recent changes the precinct has undergone.
The Joubert Park Public Art Project Committee consists of artists, curators and cultural practitioners who have come together specifically to co-ordinate, curate and implement this project. They include Bi� Venter, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Rory Bester, John Fleetwood, Cedric Nunn, Jo Ractcliffe, David Koloane and Rita Potenza.
research - self-ironic - social agency - self-reflexive - subversive - entertaining - narrative - anecdotal - urban - ambiguous - intimate - foreign - visible - visionary - evocative - critical - ambitious - collaborative - temporary - chanced - artificial - real
As part of its aim to inspire and facilitate collaborations, interactions, workshops and productions between artists and the Park communities, the Joubert Park Public Art Project would like to invite artists, performers, authors, musicians, filmmakers and cultural workers to submit proposals for a public art exhibition and festival, opening on October 13, 2001 at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and in Joubert Park.
The exhibition and opening festival is envisaged as a multi-media dialogue and exchange that engages the Joubert Park precinct and proposals should respond to the specific context and conditions of Joubert Park. Artists are encouraged to investigate the park in relation to the inner city, the park's use and role as a public site, the changes that have occurred over the last decade, the social and cultural dynamics of the precinct, and the position and function of the Johannesburg Art Gallery in the park.
Proposals can take the form of billboards, projections, newspaper inserts, photographs, studio set-ups with the park-photographers, performances, temporary interventions, sculptures or carnival, web-site, media campaign, documentation, games, debates, etc.
Artists and collectives who have already expressed an interest in submitting proposals include Robin Rhode, Willem Boshoff, Usha Seejarim, Jack Mensink (Holland), Smith & Fowle public art collective (Britain), David Andrews, Wilma Cruise, Mothlalefi Mahlabe, Cecilia Parsberg (Sweden), Rodney Place, Joachim Sch�nfeldt, Tony Nkotsi, Jones Mathebula, the Y-connection, Forum Theatre, David Roussau, Amigai Tahor, The Trinity Session (Steven Hobbs, Kathryn Smith and José Ferreira), Stompie Selibi, Amanda Lane, Rita Potenza, Allister McLaughlin and Moses Seleko.
The deadline for submission of proposals is April 30. Proposals should include a comprehensive outline of the project (intention, procedure, vision) and a budget-plan (material costs). Proposals will be reviewed by a selection committee at the beginning of May.
We are aiming to fund parts of production costs, but encourage artists to find support for their projects. Selected artists/collectives will receive R 2000 as artists' fees. Please post or e-mail proposals for the exhibition or festival to: Bié Venter, PO Box 53257, Troyeville 2139, or email biecc@mweb.co.za. Contact us for any information or for visual/ research material or documentation of last year's activities, etc.
The project will be documented extensively, in view of producing a comprehensive catalogue. We aim to take the exhibition to the Artificial Shelter Foundation - Sterkwerk Galleries in Tilburg (Netherlands) who were instrumental in initiating the project in 2000.
Call Bié Venter (011) 614-8274 (h) or (011) 618-1139 (w) or 083 728-5606
27.02.01 Foto 2001 Competition
Professional, amateur and student photographers can start preparing for the 10th annual photographic competition 'Foto 2001'. This competition seeks to show photography as an art form and that more than technical excellence is necessary to stir emotion in the viewer.
Winners in each of the following categories are will each receive R500 - Colour, Black & White, Photo
Series and Digital or Computer Enhanced photograph. An overall winner will receive R1000.
The competition is organised by the Arts Association of Bellville and sponsored by the City of Tygerberg. Entry forms will be available at the gallery from March 26. The closing date for entries is June 11 and judging will take place on June 12. The prizewinning photos will be on exhibition in the Arts Association Gallery from June 27 -July 28. The Gallery is situated inside the Bellville Library Centre, Carel van Aswegen Street.
For more information or entry forms, contact Debbie or Rentia at 918-2301.
27.02.01 Images of Salvation Today
The Gardens Presbyterian Church invites artists working in any medium to submit works for a millennial exhibition entitled 'Images of Salvation Today'. The exhibition is set to take place in the church and the church grounds from May 24 - June 3, which spans the time between Ascension to Pentecost. Submissions should depict some aspect of the Christian message.
The exhibition, which will be well publicised, aims to highlight the place of the visual arts in Christian Faith and devotion and bring a new audience to the art world.
1 The exhibits will be selected by prominent figures in the art world, including Marilyn Martin and Jill Trappler.
2 It is site-specific and will be held in the church under existing lighting. (The church may be viewed any Saturday morning by appointment with the Caretaker, tel: 465-4617 - or in conjunction with the Sunday service).
3 The exhibition is open to all.
4 Works in all media will be accepted.
5 Pictorial work must not be larger than A2, ie. 420 x 594 mm.
6 Pictorial work must be framed or mounted and ready for hanging; works not properly prepared will not be considered.
7 Scale of sculpture to be limited to the space available - height not to exceed 1m.
8 Work may be offered for sale. The church commission will be 20%.
9 While every precaution will be taken to safeguard the works of art, artists should insure their works themselves, if they so desire.
10 Works to be delivered to the S.A. National Gallery annex building, Sat. April 28 from 9 - 12am or, Mon. April 30 from 10am - 4pm.
11 Selection will take place on May 5 and 6.
12 Works not selected must be collected from the gallery on Monday May 7. From:
13 Works selected for exhibition to be collected from the church from midday on Sunday June 3 or Monday June 4.
Neither S.A. Gallery or Gardens Presbyterian Church will take responsibility for the safekeeping of works not collected on these dates.
For further information contact:
Rev. James Patrick Tel. 465-4708
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06.02.01 SAARTE-Zine - Free electronic art magazine
SAARTE-Zine is the premier South African Free Monthly E-mail Art Magazine. The aim of the magazine is to inform people about art events in South Africa. It is non-profit making and the content is determined by the responses that we receive. If you would like to publish any information in the SAARTE-Zine please submit your contribution ASAP in order to have your latest press release published.
Contact:
Michael Matthews
16.01.01 2001 China 9th International Photographic Art Exhibition
Photography is a window of cultural exchange. Photography is a bridge to facilitate the development of the friendship between Chinese people and peoples all over the world.
The Chinese Photographers Association sincerely invites you - photographic societies and federations, professional and amateur photographers from all parts of the world - to submit entries to China 9th International Photographic Art Exhibition, which will be held in September 2001 in China.
Entry Conditions:
International Liaison Department, CPA
7. Each entrant whose prints is/are accepted in the exhibition will receive a relevant medal and a certificate as well as an attractive catalogue.
Jury:
Categories and Awards:
Photographers who have won a Gold Medal will be invited to the awards and opening ceremony of the exhibition and pay a visit of photographic creation in China for one week. The organizer will bear the expenses including food, accommodation and transport of the visitors in China while they themselves will bear the round-trip travel fee from where they live to Beijing.
Explanation of the categories above:
1. The theme of the works should show the real life today such as the social trends and hot topics concerning the public, new people and new things that are constantly coming to the fore, spot events etc. all over the world.
Organized by the Chinese Photographers Association
Closing date (deadline for entry): June 1, 2001
14.11.00 Fourth Edition of the MEDIA SAVE ART Award
This award is an international press competition for articles dealing with the preservation of cultural heritage - a contentious and often agenda-inflected area in South Africa. Thus far, no South Africans have featured as award-winners, yet the raw material provided by the South African context is the stuff that writer's dreams are made of. Two prizes of US$ 4,000 will be made, to the author of the best article and the best series of articles respectively.
The biennial competition is administered by the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), an intergovernmental organisation created by UNESCO in 1959. An international jury of professionals from the world of media, conservation and culture will select the winners in each category. Only five entries from each individual may be submitted and the criteria are as follows:
1. Deal with the theme of safeguarding cultural heritage (deterioration, preservation, conservation, and restoration). Cultural heritage is understood as comprising museums, archives, libraries, monuments, historic and archaeological sites;
ICCROM - MEDIA SAVE ART
Request the registration form to the above address.
For further info in South Africa please email bernfried@kingsley.co.za
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17.04.01 Unesco Bursaries for Artists in the Field of the Visual Arts
Information on Unesco bursaries for artists is available on the following website -
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ifpc/
Residency at the Cimelice Caste, Czech Republic (2 months)
Residency at the Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland (3 months)
Residency at Darat Al Funan Art Center, Amman, Jordan (1 month)
Residency with the Cemeti Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2 months)
Residency at the Espace Sobo-Bade, Toubab Dialao, Senegal (6 months)
Residency at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand (3 months)
17.04.01 Monthly Photographic Critiques
Many years ago a bunch of Cape Town photographers used to meet once a month at UCT to discuss their creative and/ or professional work. The evenings produced some heated debates and bruised egos but were ultimately very constructive. More recently Eric Miller initiated and hosted the iAfrika sessions and the Monday night Biocaf� evenings. We have decided to resuscitate these useful crit evenings at the Centre for Photography. They take place on the third Monday of every month at the Centre for Photography (31-37 Orange Street, Gardens) at 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
All photographers are invited to bring photographs, photo essays and/ or slides they would like to discuss, to these meetings. The works discussed will include ALL disciplines, not only documentary work. All full-time photography students are also welcome as are photographers from other parts of SA. We will use the Centre gallery space (where the Paul Weinberg show was) as there is good exhibition lighting and loads of parking.
As we will need to limit the number of critiques/ discussions per evening, please contact Geoff Grundlingh on 082 490-2459 or Eric on 083 225-9675.
10.04.01 Looking for gifted young artists
Endemol Productions SA are a film production company. They have been commissioned by the SABC to produce an educational series called On Track. This youth programme will explore how sports and culture stimulate healthy body and soul as critical components for a balanced lifestyle. The programmes will take the form of a video diary.
Through the eyes of Jabu, a young enthusiast who loves exploring the world, and his brother Peter, we discover the fun, exciting, frustrating and emotional moments of South African youth. We are looking at filming a day in the life of one special child between the ages of 9 and 14 years. Jabu's video diary shows a journal of his travel into the communities and beautiful craft traditions performed by children.
On Track is a 13-part television series that wraps the lessons of sports, arts and culture in anecdote and entertainment. The series is to be shown from July 3 at 5pm.
It will be greatly appreciated if anyone could help us identify exceptional youth of the ages mentioned above, who we can profile in our programme.
Contact Marriam Diale (011) 799-2200
Email: marriam@endemol.co.za
27.03.01 Festival Curator for the Cape Town Month of Photography
The Cape Town Month of Photography Festival Committee is looking for a Festival Curator for the 2002 Month of Photography (MoP). The second Cape Town MoP is scheduled for March 2002. A core visual component of the Cape Town Heritage Festival, the Cape Town Month of Photography aims to promote southern African Photography through a range of photographic exhibitions in and around Cape Town during this month. We are looking for a curator, or a team of curators to:
a) Create a curatorial framework and budget for the 2002 MoP, and
The appointment is for a period of seven months from October 2001 to April 2002. The curatorial framework should address both the current socio-political realities in the region while also accommodating contemporary photographic practice. Applicants should take note that the Month of Photography showcases a wide range of photography, not limited to a particular genre such as documentary photography. Applicants for the curatorship should submit a curatorial framework and budget together with a timetable to the Cape Town Month of Photography Committee by April 30, 2001.
Candidates will be expected to assist the Festival Committee to raise the required curatorial funding. Those with clear and achievable curatorial and fund-raising proposals will be given preference.
NOTE: The 1999 Month of Photography consisted of 104 photographic exhibitions and events showcasing the work of 440 South African photographers. Entitled '100 XC' there were no specific curatorial directives. For the 2002 MoP there will be a core, curated festival component as well as an open category fringe festival.
Further details are available from the South African Centre for Photography on (021) 422-2625 or tel/fax (021) 480-7108 or e-mail Geoff Grundlingh meridian@worldonline.co.za
20.03.01 Short-term research openings at the Robben Island Museum
Robben Island Museum has short-term (two months - six months)
vacancies for heritage researchers who have initiative and are able to
work without close supervision (visual historical, archival,
planning/building conservation) for appointment as soon as possible.
People who have experience of "struggle cultural production" would
have an advantage, but this is not essential. We would like the
appointed researchers to work on projects for exhibitions planned
for our Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island, the V&A Waterfront
building which is due to open in November.
If you know of anyone who may fit the requirements and is available,
I would appreciate it if you could give them this e-mail contact:
Lenore Pastor-Makhurane juanita@robben-island.org.za.
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