GIPCA invites proposals for an interdisciplinary event, LAND, that will explore ideas around land and territory. Grounded within a contemporary, historical, aesthetic, material and political understanding of ‘land’ in South Africa, the project will comprise a colloquium, performances, exhibitions and … Read more
GIPCA invites proposals for the 2013 Live Art Festival, the only festival on the continent dedicated to Live Art. This sprawling series of events and research colloquium will take place from 18 – 27 November 2013 in various venues across … Read more
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) in partnership with Third World Bunfight, will host a presentation on Brett Bailey’s latest adaptation of Guiseppe Verdi’s opera, Macbeth, and a performance of excerpts from the adapted music, on Saturday … Read more
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media Culture and Communication at New York University, speaks on “Freedom and the Global South: The Legacy of Black Reconstruction” as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts public lecture series on Thursday 23 May 2013. In 1935 W.E.B. … Read more
Zen Marie and Andrew Lamprecht consider seminal writings on cricket in a discussion as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts public lecture series, on Thursday 16 May at Hiddingh Hall. Marie and Lamprecht will examine two books about cricket written over … Read more
Acclaimed novelist, playwright, curator and cultural critic Jane Taylor will discuss the creative process behind her research and staging of After Cardenio, created in relation to the so-called ‘missing’ Shakespeare play, at the Anatomy Lecture Theatre on Hiddingh Campus, on … Read more
Esteemed artist and academic Virginia MacKenny discusses Waymarker – A Painter’s Progress with reflections on ‘A Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela’ (c1139) as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts series, on Tuesday 23 April. The Codex Calixtinus is a 12th-century … Read more
2011 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow, Lance Herman, will be in conversation with artist-curator Josh Ginsburg at a public seminar hosted by GIPCA and the UCT English Department on Thursday 18 April at 13:00. The conversation concerns Herman’s interdisciplinary fellowship … Read more
Award-winning and provocative playwright Mike van Graan engages in conversation with author and critic Brent Meersman about What it means to be a playwright in South Africa in the 21st Century, at GIPCA’s Great Texts, on 16 April 2013 at … Read more
Oxford Professor Peter D. McDonald will explore ‘The Space Between’: Ways of Looking at the Art of Xu Bing at GIPCA’s first 2013 Great Texts public lecture on Tuesday 9 April. Xu Bing is one of China’s best known and … Read more
Infecting The City is proud to announce an extension of the Festival for 2013. Rained out from its scheduled time, the Afro Galactic Dream Factory will now take place at Hiddingh Hall on Tuesday 26 March at 8.30 pm. The … Read more
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) partners with the Public Culture CityLab (African Centre for Cities, UCT) on Thinking the City, from 12-15 March 2013. This series of talks and discussions seeks to strengthen thinking and practice … Read more
