BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GIPCA//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:GIPCA X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za X-WR-CALDESC:Events for GIPCA BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130601T110000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130601T130059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130521T102044 LAST-MODIFIED:20130530T133502 UID:1575-1370084400-1370091659@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Presentation of Brett Bailey's new macbEth DESCRIPTION: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 1 June at the Orchestra Rehearsal Room\, Artscape Theatre. This first public performance of the music pre-empts a presentation in Kinshasa and a European tour of the work  In Bailey’s new macbEth\, his most radical take on Verdi’s nineteenth century re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s iconic play\, the familiar tale of ambition\, treachery and witchcraft is set in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa - within a milieu of multinational double-dealings\, ethnic conflict\, brutal militia\, ‘blood minerals’ and glittering Chinese imports. Against this backdrop\, a Congolese warlord and his ambitious wife murder their leader and unleash atrocities on the crumbling African province that they seize. The deconstructed\, stripped-down work becomes an intimate\, highly sculptural and visual performance piece\, resonating with post-colonial aesthetics and concerns. Verdi’s original music has been rescored by multi-award-winning Belgian composer Fabrizio Cassol\, for a small ensemble of 11 opera singers and 12 orchestral musicians\, to be conducted by Serbian conductor Premil Petrovic. Following a two-week workshop in Cape Town with the musicians and cast\, Bailey will present a draft version of the work at Connexion Kin in Kinshasa\, Democratic Republic of Congo\, in June.  macbEth will premier in Cape Town in 2014\, and also travel to Rotterdam\, Brussels\, Vienna\, Hannover\, London\, Lisbon and Paris. The staging on 1 June at Artscape will include a presentation on the context and creation of the work\, and first public performance of excerpts from the music. Brett Bailey is an award-winning playwright\, director\, installation artist and designer. He is the artistic director of Third World Bunfight and was curator of the Infecting the City Public Arts Festival from 2008 – 2011. Bailey has directed\, written and produced several other works\, which also integrate classical European texts with contemporary African design elements and socio-political contexts\, including Orfeus (2006) and medEia (2012). His acclaimed\, iconoclastic works focus a probing lens on the world we live in\, in particular the post-colonial landscape of Africa. This presentation and first public performance of excerpts from macbEth will take place at the Orchestra Rehearsal Room\, Artscape Theatre\, at 11:00 on Saturday 1 June; access is via the Orchestra Studio Door. Attendance is free and no booking is required. For more information on this event\, please contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za LOCATION:Artscape Theatre Centre, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/presentation-of-brett-baileys-new-macbeth/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130618T180000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T210059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130503T102723 LAST-MODIFIED:20130520T100713 UID:1505-1371578400-1371675659@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Workshop series - Drawing Pleasure DESCRIPTION:The Michaelis School of Fine Art and Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) are pleased to announce a series of evening drawing workshops\, open to members of the public\, to be presented throughout the month of June. The Drawing Pleasure workshops are aimed at anyone who would like to discover or develop their ability to draw\, and experience the pleasure of drawing in a supportive environment. Individual workshops take place over two consecutive evenings (Tuesday and Wednesday)\, and participants can register for any number of the three available workshops. Each workshop will be facilitated by a tutor with a distinct approach to the drawing process\, allowing participants to select the workshops which best represent their interests. Dates: Workshop 1: Tuesday 11 June 2013 and Wednesday 12 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Leonard Shapiro Workshop 2: Tuesday 18 June 2013 and Wednesday 19 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Karen Stewart Workshop 3: Tuesday 25 June 2013 and Wednesday 26 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Katherine Bull Cost per Workshop: R240.00. All drawing materials\, including paper\, will be provided. Booking: Booking is essential and workshops are limited to a maximum of 20 participants. Bookings via webtickets. Parking:  There is free parking available for workshop participants on Hiddingh Campus. For more information\, please contact: Leonard Shapiro on Leonard@craftsouthafrica.co.za or 082 5530 824. ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS AND FACILITATORS Workshop 1: Tuesday 11 June 2013 and Wednesday 12 June 2013 Leonard Shapiro has extensive experience in facilitating drawing workshops for first-time drawers\, as well as for those with previous drawing experience. In this workshop\, he will introduce participants to a selection of techniques involved in observational drawing. Workshop 2: Tuesday 18 June 2013 and Wednesday 19 June 2013 Karen Stewart works for the Cape Craft and Design Institute and has twelve years of experience as a creativity and design facilitator. She will introduce participants to the art of seeing\, developing methods to connect perception to the physical act of drawing. Participants will experience different kinds of mark-making and learn how to control a pencil through specifically designed activities. Workshop 3: Tuesday 25 June 2013 and Wednesday 26 June 2013 Katherine Bull is a visual artist with over ten years of teaching experience at tertiary level\, who also works as an art therapist and runs private creative workshops in a range of media. This workshop will approach the drawing process as a tool for meditation and self-discovery. It will provide an introduction to various techniques that facilitate an awareness of the whole body as a tool for mark-making\, exploring both the physical and psychological aspects of the Self through drawing. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/drawing-pleasure-2-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130625T180000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130626T210059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130503T102631 LAST-MODIFIED:20130520T100822 UID:1503-1372183200-1372280459@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Workshop series - Drawing Pleasure DESCRIPTION:The Michaelis School of Fine Art and Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) are pleased to announce a series of evening drawing workshops\, open to members of the public\, to be presented throughout the month of June. The Drawing Pleasure workshops are aimed at anyone who would like to discover or develop their ability to draw\, and experience the pleasure of drawing in a supportive environment. Individual workshops take place over two consecutive evenings (Tuesday and Wednesday)\, and participants can register for any number of the three available workshops. Each workshop will be facilitated by a tutor with a distinct approach to the drawing process\, allowing participants to select the workshops which best represent their interests. Dates: Workshop 1: Tuesday 11 June 2013 and Wednesday 12 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Leonard Shapiro Workshop 2: Tuesday 18 June 2013 and Wednesday 19 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Karen Stewart Workshop 3: Tuesday 25 June 2013 and Wednesday 26 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Katherine Bull Cost per Workshop: R240.00. All drawing materials\, including paper\, will be provided. Booking: Booking is essential and workshops are limited to a maximum of 20 participants. Bookings via webtickets. Parking:  There is free parking available for workshop participants on Hiddingh Campus. For more information\, please contact: Leonard Shapiro on Leonard@craftsouthafrica.co.za or 082 5530 824. ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS AND FACILITATORS Workshop 1: Tuesday 11 June 2013 and Wednesday 12 June 2013 Leonard Shapiro has extensive experience in facilitating drawing workshops for first-time drawers\, as well as for those with previous drawing experience. In this workshop\, he will introduce participants to a selection of techniques involved in observational drawing. Workshop 2: Tuesday 18 June 2013 and Wednesday 19 June 2013 Karen Stewart works for the Cape Craft and Design Institute and has twelve years of experience as a creativity and design facilitator. She will introduce participants to the art of seeing\, developing methods to connect perception to the physical act of drawing. Participants will experience different kinds of mark-making and learn how to control a pencil through specifically designed activities. Workshop 3: Tuesday 25 June 2013 and Wednesday 26 June 2013 Katherine Bull is a visual artist with over ten years of teaching experience at tertiary level\, who also works as an art therapist and runs private creative workshops in a range of media. This workshop will approach the drawing process as a tool for meditation and self-discovery. It will provide an introduction to various techniques that facilitate an awareness of the whole body as a tool for mark-making\, exploring both the physical and psychological aspects of the Self through drawing. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/drawing-pleasure-2-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130611T180000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130612T210059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130503T102005 LAST-MODIFIED:20130520T100250 UID:1500-1370973600-1371070859@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Workshop series - Drawing Pleasure DESCRIPTION:The Michaelis School of Fine Art and Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) are pleased to announce a series of evening drawing workshops\, open to members of the public\, to be presented throughout the month of June. The Drawing Pleasure workshops are aimed at anyone who would like to discover or develop their ability to draw\, and experience the pleasure of drawing in a supportive environment. Individual workshops take place over two consecutive evenings (Tuesday and Wednesday)\, and participants can register for any number of the three available workshops. Each workshop will be facilitated by a tutor with a distinct approach to the drawing process\, allowing participants to select the workshops which best represent their interests. Dates: Workshop 1: Tuesday 11 June 2013 and Wednesday 12 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Leonard Shapiro Workshop 2: Tuesday 18 June 2013 and Wednesday 19 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Karen Stewart Workshop 3: Tuesday 25 June 2013 and Wednesday 26 June 2013\, 18:00 – 21:00\, facilitated by Katherine Bull Cost per Workshop: R240.00. All drawing materials\, including paper\, will be provided. Booking: Booking is essential and workshops are limited to a maximum of 20 participants. Bookings via webtickets. Parking:  There is free parking available for workshop participants on Hiddingh Campus. For more information\, please contact: Leonard Shapiro on Leonard@craftsouthafrica.co.za or 082 5530 824. ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS AND FACILITATORS Workshop 1: Tuesday 11 June 2013 and Wednesday 12 June 2013 Leonard Shapiro has extensive experience in facilitating drawing workshops for first-time drawers\, as well as for those with previous drawing experience. In this workshop\, he will introduce participants to a selection of techniques involved in observational drawing. Workshop 2: Tuesday 18 June 2013 and Wednesday 19 June 2013 Karen Stewart works for the Cape Craft and Design Institute and has twelve years of experience as a creativity and design facilitator. She will introduce participants to the art of seeing\, developing methods to connect perception to the physical act of drawing. Participants will experience different kinds of mark-making and learn how to control a pencil through specifically designed activities. Workshop 3: Tuesday 25 June 2013 and Wednesday 26 June 2013 Katherine Bull is a visual artist with over ten years of teaching experience at tertiary level\, who also works as an art therapist and runs private creative workshops in a range of media. This workshop will approach the drawing process as a tool for meditation and self-discovery. It will provide an introduction to various techniques that facilitate an awareness of the whole body as a tool for mark-making\, exploring both the physical and psychological aspects of the Self through drawing. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/drawing-pleasure-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130502T085237 LAST-MODIFIED:20130517T115238 UID:1489-1369330200-1369333859@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Nicholas Mirzoeff DESCRIPTION: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. Du Bois published his monumental work Black Reconstruction. More than just a history of Reconstruction after the abolition of slavery (1865-77)\, his book was a blueprint for freedom. For Du Bois\, the global South was the hope for a different future. Drawing on own his prize-winning book\, The Right to Look\,  Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff’s presentation will track the legacy of Black Reconstruction in our understanding of democracy\, education\, debt and land justice. He connects Du Bois’s project to the global social movements since 2011 and their call for a new reconstruction for our own time. Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media Culture and Communication at New York University\, and is one of the founders of the academic discipline of visual culture in books like An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999/2009) and The Visual Culture Reader (1998/2002/2012). He is also Deputy Director of the International Association for Visual Culture and organised its first conference in 2012. His most recent book The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011) won the Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. He is currently working on expanding the project into a trilogy. The second part will deal with countervisuality in the global social movements of 2011\, in which Mirzoeff was an active participant with Occupy Wall Street and Strike Debt. The concluding volume looks beyond the limits of visuality and visualizing to the possibilities of resonance\, jubilee and mutual aid. Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff's visit to the University of Cape Town is supported by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor's office. Great Texts lectures will take place on Thursdays for the month of May. This lecture will take place on Thursday 23 May 2013 at 17:30 at Hiddingh Hall\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town; and is free. Refreshments will be served from 17:00; no booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts series\, please contact 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Photograph by Carl Pope. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-nicholas-mirzoeff/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130516T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130516T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130502T083348 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T112130 UID:1487-1368725400-1368729059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Zen Marie and Andrew Lamprecht DESCRIPTION:“What do they of cricket know\, who only cricket know?” Zen Marie and Andrew Lamprecht consider seminal writings on cricket in a discussion as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts public lecture series. They will examine two books about cricket written over a century apart and very different in intent\, style and content\, yet in a peculiar way tied together by the narratives and realities of colonialism\, class\, and agency. K.S. Ranjitsinhji’s The Jubilee Book of Cricket (1897) and Herschelle Gibbs’s To the Point (2010) form the basis of their investigation. The former\, a homage to the the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria\, the 'Empress of India'\, and the noble sport of cricket\, was written by Ranjitsinhji\, an Indian prince who played for the English national team\, becoming the first ‘non-indegene’ to represent a nation in sport. The latter book\, a ‘ghost written’ autobiography\, describes a contemporary South African figure who perhaps needs less introduction\, having achieved as many accolades as he as courted controversy. Marie and Lamprecht's presentation will take the form of an exchange of readings and ideas that will seek to go beyond the boundary that cricketing literature conventionally occupies. The cross-readings will tease out connections and contradictions inherent in the form of cricket - and beyond over the hundred years that separate the two books. The discussion will be framed by the work of C.L.R. James – influential Trinidadian-born social theorist\, political activist\, historian and journalist. James’s Beyond a Boundary\, first published 50 years ago and still considered a seminal work on cricket\, asks in the Preface: "What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?"\, taking up the challenge of commenting on the game in social\, historical and autobiographical contexts. Zen Marie lectures at the WITS School of Arts\, where he tutors senior undergraduate students and supervises Masters students. He studied photography at the Market Photo Workshop and thereafter completed a BAFA degree at the University of Cape Town. Alongside this artistic training\, Marie went on to pursue two post-graduate studies: a two year studio residency at de-ateliers in Amsterdam\, and a Masters degree at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis\, based at the University of Amsterdam. Marie works on projects and exhibtions\, both locally and abroad\, that use performance\, installation and writing to explore a range of ideas relating to city and nation. Andrew Lamprecht is a Senior Lecturer in at the Michaelis School of Fine Art\, University of Cape Town. He is well-known as a writer\, critic and curator\, with a special interest in Contemporary South African Art and the intersection of history and art practice. Lamprecht serves on a number of committees and boards\, including the ISANG Acquisitions Committee\, SARAH Advisory Committee and as a Commissioner for Freedom of Expression for the Paris-based\, UNESCO-affiliated International Association of Art Critics (AICA). As a curator\, he has curated three exhibitions for Iziko\, most recently\, Tretchikoff: The People's Painter. Great Texts lectures will take place on Thursdays for the month of May. This lecture will take place on Thursday 16 May 2013 at 17:30 at Hiddingh Hall\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town; and is free. Refreshments will be served from 17:00; no booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts series\, please contact 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Zen Marie & Andrew Lamprecht audio recording available for download. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-zen-marie-and-andrew-lamprecht/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130509T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130509T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130412T115140 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T111743 UID:1478-1368120600-1368124259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Jane Taylor DESCRIPTION: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 Thursday 9 May 2013 as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts public lecture series. Commissioned by Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt to create a work in hypothetical relation to the so-called ‘missing’ Shakespeare play\, Cardenio\, Jane Taylor first staged After Cardenio in 2011 at Hiddingh Campus’s historical Anatomy Lecture Theatre. In ‘After After Cardenio’\, a lecture which brings together visual studies\, performance studies\, the history of medicine\, the origins of neurology\, and the history of philosophy\, Taylor not only discusses the creative process behind this project\, but also considers the volatility of creative engagement with archives. After Cardenio’s playtext arose from a scholarly engagement with the story of a seventeenth-century woman\, Anne Greene\, hanged for infanticide\, whose body was given over for an autopsy at Oxford University. Greene revived on the anatomy table\, and Taylor’s research led her to explore the startling events in relation to the history of neurology and the intersection of Philosophy and Natural Science in the early days of Natural Philosophy at Oxford. In After Cardenio\, Taylor explores the obsessions with the body/soul split\, theorised by Descartes\, who died the same year that Anne Green was hanged\, using distinctive puppetry idioms (with a puppet created by sculptor Gavin Younge). Tracing a link between the research of key seventeenth century thinkers\, Taylor considers the significance of this episode on the thinking of John Locke\, who became one of the great theorists of identity in the seventeenth century. Thomas Willis and William Petty were the anatomists involved in the ‘Anne Green episode’. Willis subsequently invented the term ‘neurology\,’ and worked with Christopher Wren (who was to become the celebrated architect of St Paul’s) to produce the first modern illustrations of the human brain. Wren was a student at Oxford at the time of these events\, and wrote a piece of poetry about the young woman who seemed to come back to life after death. Jane Taylor is Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and Mellon Research Advisor at the University of the Western Cape\, and a member of the Board of Handspring Puppet Company. She is a published novelist and playwright\, curator and cultural critic.  Taylor has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford and at Cambridge Universities in the UK; and has been recipient of Mellon and Rockefeller Fellowships. She has recently been appointed Wole Soyinka Chair of Theatre at University of Leeds. Great Texts lectures will take place on Thursdays for the month of May. This lecture will take place on Thursday 9 May 2013 at 17:30 in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre\, Old Medical School Building\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town; and is free. Refreshments will be served from 17:00; no booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts series\, please contact 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Jane Taylor audio recording available for download.     LOCATION:31-37 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-jane-taylor/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130423T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130423T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130405T122109 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T111608 UID:1458-1366738200-1366741859@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Virginia MacKenny DESCRIPTION:Esteemed artist and academic Virginia MacKenny discusses Waymarker – A Painter’s Progress with reflections on A Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela (c1139) in GIPCA's final Great Texts lecture for April. The Codex Calixtinus is a 12th-century illuminated manuscript formerly attributed to Pope Callixtus II. Written in Latin between 1135-39 it is a compilation from a number of sources and includes sermons\, liturgical text as well as polyphonic musical scores from the medieval period. It is also the first known text that records the various routes through France and Spain on the Way of St James\, more commonly known as the Camino\, to Santiago de Compostela. Made up of five volumes it is Volume V\, Iter pro peregrinis ad Compostellam (loosely translated as A Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela)\, which informs this talk. Described as the first tourist guidebook it points pilgrims to monuments\, landmarks\, local customs and food on their journey to Santiago. Last year Virginia MacKenny walked over 700km along the French section of the ancient pilgrimage route known as the Chemin de St Jacques. She followed the Via Lemovicensis\, a lesser-trod route on the Chemin de St Jacques\, one of four routes through France described in the Codex Calixtinus. Starting at the UNESCO heritage site of the Romanesque church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine\, Vézelay\, MacKenny made her way through Limousin to St Léonard-de-Noblat\, Limoges and on beyond Perigeux\, following the historical landmarks and reliquaries highlighted in the Codex. Carrying the prayers and dedications of other environmentally concerned artists and individuals she dedicated her walk “to the Earth and all living beings on her”.  With an emphasis on ‘treading lightly’ on the planet she saw the walk as a literal act of grounding and emulated artistic tradition by recording both the external and internal topography of her journey in watercolour. An exhibition Waymarker on her return included the 36 post-card sized works made along the way. In this lecture she shares some of the historical landmarks on the journey and insights gained on the route. Virginia MacKenny is Senior Lecturer in Painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art\, University of Cape Town. She has received a number of awards including the Volkskas Atelier Award (1991) and the Ampersand Fellowship in New York (2004). An independent critic\, curator and writer\, she contributed to Sophie Perryer’s 10 Years 100 Artists – Art in a Democratic South Africa (2004) and continues to write critically on South African contemporary art. Recipient of a Donald Gordon Creative Arts Award (2011)\, she curated Threshold - an exhibition of environmentally engaged South African art. MacKenny continues to practice ‘treading lightly’ and is currently researching eco-conscious artistic practice in a Southern African context. Great Texts lectures take place on Tuesdays for the month of April. This lecture will take place on Tuesday 23 April 2013 at 17:30 at Hiddingh Hall\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town\, and is free. Refreshments will be served from 17:00; no booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts series\, please contact +27 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Virginia Mackenny audio recording is available for download. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-virginia-mackenny/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130418T130000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130418T140059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130405T120922 LAST-MODIFIED:20130503T085150 UID:1456-1366290000-1366293659@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Public Seminar - Lance Herman in conversation with Josh Ginsburg DESCRIPTION: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. The conversation concerns Herman's interdisciplinary fellowship work Eliezer - which took the form of two books (Middelburg and My Bedroom Wall) and two music albums (Hall of Dreams and Knots). Herman has since gone on to activate the performative aspects of the project\, showcasing Eliezer nationally\, including at the National Arts Festival\, Grahamstown (2012). The interview-conversation aims to explore some of the origins of Eliezer\, and its changing form and contexts\, as well as open a more general discussion related to creative practice as a research methodology within University curricula. Using the Eliezer project’s trajectory as a framework\, the discussion will also look into the complexities involved in transposing the project from the University setting into other contexts\, and the ongoing challenge of a sustainable dialogue between these often dislocated arenas. Lance Hermanholds an MA in English Literature from the University of Cape Town (2010). His MA dissertation dealt with the later novels of J.M. Coetzee\, but importantly looked at the relationship between philosophical and literary language\, and included creative-language experiments within the formal essay. In 2011 Herman was a Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA). Currently Herman works in corporate consulting\, is a free-lance writer\, and a practicing musician touring within South Africa. Josh Ginsburg holds a degree in Electrical-Mechanical Engineering (2004) and a Masters in Fine Art (2011) both from UCT. He is a practicing artist and curator\, and works part-time in the Fine Arts Departments of the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. This event will take place on Thursday 18 April 2013 at 13:00 at Arts 116\, University of Cape Town Upper Campus\, and is free. Light refreshments will be served from 12:30. For more information\, please contact 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. LOCATION:UCT Upper Campus, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/public-seminar-lance-herman-in-conversation-with-josh-ginsburg/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130416T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130416T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130404T112817 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T111318 UID:1448-1366133400-1366137059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Mike van Graan in conversation with Brent Meersman DESCRIPTION: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. “Playwrights who actually manage to see their work staged are thin on the ground in South Africa. Van Graan is one of the few practicing playwrights who has had significant success in the past decade with a dozen acclaimed works. He constructs morally complex situations and dramatically layered scripts dealing with highly controversial socio-political topics” comments Meersman. In this staged conversation\, Van Graan and Meersman consider what role and function theatre has in the new South Africa\, asking if the "well-made play" has become an arcane activity\, and how the playwright negotiates a culturally diverse audience and country. Mike van Graan is the Executive Director of the African Arts Institute (AFAI)\, a South African NGO based in Cape Town whose two-fold mission is to help develop leadership for the African creative sector and to build regional markets for African artists and their creative works. Until recently\, he also served as the Secretary General of Arterial Network\, a pan-African network of artists\, cultural activists\, creative enterprises and others engaged in the African creative sector and its contribution to human rights\, democracy and development on the African continent. After the country’s first democratic elections in 1994\, he was appointed as a Special Adviser to the first minister responsible for arts and culture where he played an influential role in shaping post-apartheid cultural policies.  In 2011\, Van Graan was appointed by UNESCO as a Technical Adviser to assist governments in the global south to develop cultural policies aligned to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. He was appointed as Artscape’s Associate Playwright and is considered as one of South Africa’s leading contemporary playwrights\, having garnered numerous nominations and awards for his plays that interrogate the post-apartheid South African condition. Van Graan received the Standard Bank Standing Ovation award at the 2012 National Arts Festival for his sustained contribution to the Festival as a writer and activist. Author Brent Meersman has had an eclectic career\, spanning the arts\, commerce and political arenas. He is a compulsive traveller; at last count he'd been to 50 countries and travelled around all the continents\, including the Antarctic. Since 2003\, he writes for the national weekly\, the Mail & Guardian. He has written extensively for New Africa Analysis magazine\, London\, reviewed work for the BBC and the London Financial Times\, and contributed to the Sunday Independent\, Business Day\, The Witness\, Cape Times\, Die Burger\, The Weekender\, The Wry Republic\, Politicsweb\, and as a M&G Thought Leader. Meersman is also on the editorial board of Critical Stages\, the journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics. His first novel\, Primary Coloured\, was published in 2007\, followed by Reports Before Daybreak; and his latest novel Five Lives at Noon will be published in June 2013. Meersman’s poetry collection Ophila and the Poet and other poems (2010) includes poems that have appeared in New Contrast\, New Contact\, Botsotso\, and Green Dragon. His short stories have appeared in What Love Is (2011)\, and his first published story was in The Invisible Ghetto (1993). Great Texts lectures take place on Tuesdays for the month of April. This lecture will take place on Tuesday 16 April 2013 at 17:30 at Hiddingh Hall\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town\, and is free. Refreshments will be served from 17:00; no booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts series\, please contact +27 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Mike van Graan & Brent Meersman audio recording available for download. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-mike-van-graan-in-conversation-wtih-brent-meersman/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T203000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T213059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130322T111144 LAST-MODIFIED:20130405T121028 UID:1430-1364329800-1364333459@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:The Afro Galactic Dream Factory DESCRIPTION: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 Afro Galactic Dream Factory is an afro-techno audio-visual symphony\, a mash-up of musical genres and artistic disciplines thrown into the bountiful void of outer space\, the place of our future paradise regained\, remixed\, re-dreamed and relaunched. Featuring an eclectic group of artists and musicians brought together by director and producer\, Catherine Henegan\, it is performed by Jimmy Rage\, Mr Sakitumi & the Grrrl\, Masello Motana\, Bliksemstraal\, Lee Thomson\, Ross McDonald\, Bongani Magatyana and The Mafrica Mbube Singers. Set in world somewhere in the future\, they celebrate the revolution’s evolution beyond the prescripts of racism\, war\, violence and other earthly limitations. Lest they should forget\, they also remember darker days back on earth where these things still existed and prevailed. The Infecting the City Public Arts Festival is presented by the Africa Centre. The Afro Galactic Dream Factory is presented in partnership with the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA)\, and supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL. This event will take place at Hiddingh Hall\, UCT Hiddingh Campus\, 31-37 Orange Street\, Cape Town\, at 8.30pm on Tuesday 26 March. Entrance is free and no booking is required. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/the-afro-galactic-dream-factory/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130409T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130409T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130322T074436 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T111203 UID:1435-1365528600-1365532259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Peter D. McDonald DESCRIPTION: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 2013. Xu Bing is one of China’s best known and most critically acclaimed artists. Central to his art is language - how it shapes and what it reveals of different cultures. In 1988 he published Book from the Sky - a text that at first glance appears to be written in Chinese characters\, but on closer scrutiny reveals itself to be composed in nonsense characters invented by the artist. In 2012 Xu Bing published Book from the Ground\, a novel written in a language of icons. His work\, which uses a wide variety of media\, disturbs the boundaries between writing and painting\, book and artwork\, installation and performance. It also challenges us to think about the cultures we inhabit in new ways. In this talk\, McDonald will reflect on these aspects of Xu Bing’s work and on the vertiginous experience of viewing it. Peter D. McDonald is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on writing systems\, literature as a specific mode of thinking\, ideas of the intercultural\, and literary institutions and the law since 1800. McDonald’s most recent book\, The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences\, appeared in 2009. Great Texts lectures take place on Tuesdays for the month of April. This first lecture in the series will take place on Tuesday 9 April 2013 at 17:30 at Hiddingh Hall\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town\, and is free. Refreshments will be served from 17:00; no booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts series\, please contact 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Prof. Peter McDonald audio recording is available for download.   LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-peter-mcdonald/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130312 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130220T102729 LAST-MODIFIED:20130530T111622 UID:1413-1362614400-1363046400@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:The Uncommercial Traveller international workshops and audio tours DESCRIPTION:One of the great socio-realists of his time\, Charles Dickens captured the joys and tragedies of city life in his little-known non-fiction work The Uncommercial Traveller.  The book features people and places which inspired many of his future works\, and gives the reader a glimpse into the personal thoughts and opinions of a man fascinated by cities and those living in them. Dickens was particularly interested in the parts of a city which remain hidden from public view\, and he could often be found wandering the back streets on late-night insomniac walks. Using this approach of seeking out forgotten places and uncovering hidden stories\,  participants in Punchdrunk and Arcola Theatre's The Uncommercial Traveller project explored the city and worked in teams to devise\, write and record short audio pieces over a five day period. Working with directors Owen Calvert Lyons (Arcola Theatre)\, Raquel Meseguer (Punchdrunk) and artist James Webb\, workshop participants developed creative and reflective audio-guided tours of locations in the city of Cape Town - journeys which allow audiences to see the city in a new light. The project will culminate in downloadable public guided tours of Cape Town\, to be launched at the Infecting the City Festival on 13 March 2013. MP3 players with the tours will be also available from the Infecting the City Festival Centre (6 Spin Street) from 13-16 March\, 08:30 - 13:00 daily. Known in the UK for their innovative approaches to theatre and community engagement\, Punchdrunk and Arcola Theatre have worked closely with the British Council to reconceive The Uncommercial Traveller as an international project. To date\, the project has travelled to Karachi\, Melbourne\, Penang\, Singapore and Portsmouth. Directed by: Owen Calvert Lyons and Raquel Meseguer Sound design: James Webb Cape Town audio tours devised by: Kim Kerfoot\, Genna Gardini\, Brink Scholtz\, Ongezwa Mbele\, Mdu Kweyama\, Owen Manemela\, Rosa Postlewhaite\, Shannon Hughes\, Krystle Marrier d' Unienville\, Busisiwa Mpotye\, Lwando Tyokolo\, Tarryn Saunders\, Florance Vermeulen\, Nhlanhla Qhomo\, Thulani Maguda and Asanda Rilityana. Download the tours: 01_The Potjie 02_Memory Sickness 03_Listen.Here. 04_Consider This 05_The Mission or: https://soundcloud.com/calvert-lyons/sets/uct-capetown Download Uncommercial Traveller map with locations. Video recording from Uncommercial Traveller: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64949975[/vimeo]               LOCATION: URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/the-uncommercial-traveller-international-workshops/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130321 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130218T101022 LAST-MODIFIED:20130322T111234 UID:1409-1362096000-1363824000@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Between the Lines exhibition DESCRIPTION:Michaelis Galleries in partnership with the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) presents the exhibition Between the Lines\, featuring artwork by German and South African art students\, from 1 to 20 March 2013. Forging a dialogue in the exploration of the potential of art for radical mediation\, Between the Lines is a meeting point between German and South African art students. The works are chosen by Candice Breitz and Nadja Daehnke\, featuring 10 students each from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste and from the Michaelis School of Fine Art\, University of Cape Town. The exhibition opens on Friday 1 March at 18:00\, and will run until Wednesday 20 March. Probing cross-cultural communication and the capacity of art to function as a tool of social translation; Between the Lines includes paintings\, photography\, installations\, video-work and performances by Fine Art and Art Theory students – those in their third and fourth year of study\, as well as students from current Masters programmes. “When two cultures encounter one another\, tools of translation are essential in the building of a sustainable relationship. In terms of striving towards a greater mutual understanding of the specific pasts\, presents and futures of Germany and South Africa; contemporary artists can offer a range of translation strategies. What tools might be used to translate German experience into South African experience or vice versa?” comments Michaelis Galleries Curator Nadja Daehnke. The Between the Lines exhibition is part of a wider exchange project\, which includes two high profile public conferences at the Michaelis School of Fine Art (25 to 28 February 2013) and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig respectively. These will explore ideas and strategies relevant to the role of art in translating experience and creating mutual understanding across international borders. For more information\, please visit www.betweenlines.co.za. The Between the Lines exhibition will open on Friday 1 March at 18:00 and close on Wednesday 20 March 2013. A public walkabout will take place on Tuesday 5 March from 13:00 – 14:00. For more information\, please contact Nadja Daehnke on 021 480 7170\, 0823165272 or nadja.daehnke@uct.ac.za. Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 11:00 to 16:00\, Saturday 10:00 to 13:00\, or by appointment. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/between-the-lines-exhibition/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130311 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130317 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130212T115326 LAST-MODIFIED:20130530T113028 UID:1384-1362960000-1363478400@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Infecting the City DESCRIPTION:The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) partners with the Africa Centre in Infecting the (Mother) City with installations\, performances\, readings\, film screenings and discussion sessions\, from 11 – 16 March 2013. In collaboration with several national and international partners\, GIPCA presents a diverse range of works that embrace interdisciplinarity whilst engaging with public spaces in compelling ways. These emerge from the University of Cape Town's Creative and Performing Arts departments\, the culminating presentations of 2012-2013 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellows and Award Winners\, as well as workshops and commissioned international pieces. GIPCA also partners with the Public Culture CityLab (African Centre for Cities\, UCT) on Thinking the City\, a series of talks and discussions seeking to strengthen thinking and practice at the intersection of culture and public space. Mamela Nyamza  | Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo Iziko South African Museum Whale Well | 11 and 13 March | 18:30 (as part of Programme A) Having recently returned from sold-out performances at the Ovalhouse in London\, highly acclaimed choreographer and Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow\, Mamela Nyamza\, presents a startling dance performance Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo (The Meal)\, for which she received a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival 2012. Also featuring Dinah Eppel and Kirsty Ndawo\, the work celebrates the creative capacity of young South Africans to subvert and transform instruments of oppression and denigration into expressions of ecstasy and beauty; and reflects on the relationship between women from different generations and races. Cia Horácio Macuácua | Orobroy\, Stop! Church Square | 11 and 13 March | 21:30 (as part of Programme A) Awarded the main Puma Creative Prize and the first prize in the Group Pieces category at danse l'Afrique danse in Bamako\, 2010\, Orobroy\, Stop! was conceptualised under the creative direction of esteemed Mozambican choreographer\, Horácio Macuácua. In an inventive intercultural reconstruction of Flamenco\, deep emotions\, notions of identity\, gender and conflicting experiences are explored in a visceral manner in this provocative work. The work is presented with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Henrietta Rose-Innes | Green Lion District 6 Museum Homecoming Centre | 12 and 14 March | 18:15 (as part of Programme B) Award-winning author Henrietta Rose-Innes discusses her work\, Green Lion\, and reads a few short extracts. This novel\, developed during her tenure as Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow\, explores extinction and the meanings of animal/human encounters\, with particular reference to the historical and contemporary Cape. Beginning at a zoo-like institution devoted to recreating an extinct Cape lion\, the narrative traces the relationship between a lion-keeper and the rare and elusive animal in his care. There will be opportunity for discussion and questions from the audience after the readings. Aeneas Wilder | Under Construction District 6 Museum | Viewable throughout duration of Festival | 12 and 14 March | 19:30 (as part of Programme B) The collaborative project\, Under Construction\, involves the meticulous construction and spectacular public destruction of a complex wooden structure in the District Six Museum to ask poignant questions around what it means to be a resident in the city. Wilder is best known for creating large\, complex structures using thousands of pieces of wood. The pieces are not affixed but self-supporting and balanced. After hours of precariously creating his work\, he ceremonially kicks it\, destroying it in seconds.  Resonating with the history of District Six\, the work becomes about identity and architecture; about self-built monuments that create institutional identities\, and how they are challenged; about how we read our bodies\, relative to our environment: protected and sheltered\, or humble and vulnerable. After the collapse of the installation\, lecturers and students from the UCT School of Architecture will turn the wood units into furniture for the District Six community and the Imizamo Yethu township in Hout Bay.  In this way\, the project becomes a cycle of creation\, loss\, and re-creation. Curator: Winnie Sze Collaborators: University of Cape Town School of Architecture; Mike Louw and Kevin Fellingham Mike Rossi and Ulrich Suesse | Trespassing Permitted Church Square | 12 and 14 March | 20:00 (as part of Programme B) In line with GIPCA’s interdisciplinary mandate\, Trespassing Permitted engages with “off limit” zones within the performance space. The initiators of this work\, Donald Gordon Creative Arts Award winners Mike Rossi and Ulrich Suesse\, have created a crossover performance\, featuring acclaimed musician Feya Faku on trumpet\, and dancers Nicola Elliott\, Alan Parker and Richard Antrobus. The composition process was informed by exploring and experimenting with boundaries; by developing new musical sound and by collaborating in music and mixed media productions. Performers are not constrained by detailed notated scores; they are free to move\, participate and improvise with their own contributions - Trespassing Permitted. Improvisation encroaches on composition\, jazz invades western classical\, African and European sound spectra are interpolated\, dancers meddle in the creation of sound. The programme moves from individual performances to an increasingly participatory performance\, with parallels being drawn to the reopening and re-activation of city spaces.   Michael MacGarry | As Above\, So Below ITC Festival Centre (6 Spin Street) | 12 and 14 March | 21:45 (as part of Programme B) Michael MacGarry’s period film\, As Above\, So Below concerns a philosophical re-imaging of Darwin's brief visit to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1836\, following five years at sea around the world aboard The Beagle\, British naturalist Charles Darwin visited the Cape of Good Hope. He was 27 years old at the time. The film\, shot in black and white\, questions what might have ensued had Darwin never left the Cape\, had he in fact he died there (the result of a vain wager with his valet\, and the in-compatibility of his egotism in the face of the infinite); killed by his own invention and ambition. Presented as the culminating project of MacGarry’s Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellowship\, the work is foremost a philosophical play about entropy; the breakdown of rational\, ordered systems in isolation.  It focuses on notions around 19th century industrial progress\, the absurd\, colonial taxonomy\, the uncanny and the quixotic nature of humanity; all within the mode of narrative cinema. Michaelis School of Fine Art | Platform_18_28 Cape Town Station | Viewable throughout duration of Festival | 13 and 15 March | 15:30 (as part of Programme D) Curated by Nadja Daehnke around the themes of movement and transit\, the Platform_18_28 exhibition at the Cape Town station includes paintings\, sculptures and photographs produced by students from the Michaelis School of Fine Art; while the collaborative building project between Tokyo-based artist Aeneas Wilder\, curator Winnie Sze and the UCT School of Architecture\, Under Construction\, seeks to ask poignant questions around what it means to be a resident in the City. Installed in the District 6 Museum\, Wilder’s fragile work which involves meticulous construction and then a spectacular public destruction will have particular resonance within the space that it is installed. The Cape Consort | Shades of Grey Slave Church (Long Street) |  14 March 12:30 | 16 March 10:30 (as part of Programme E) Old and new converge with the Cape Consort’s exploration of early vocal repertoire in Shades of Grey\, a fractured audioscape of late medieval European and 19th-century colonial culture in historically informed interpretation. The work is the result of a Donald Gordon Creative Arts Award\, awarded to musicologist Rebekka Sandmeier. Manuscript 4.b.5 of the Grey Collection in the National Library of South Africa – an office book from diocese of Münster – contains the late medieval chants for the office of St Liudger. Late medieval chant is often seen as “impure” or “decadent” by plainchant scholars and not much is known about it\, both in terms of scholarly research and performance. This dearth of knowledge gives the opportunity for experiments such as the use of isons and early improvised polyphony or composed polyphony. In this regard\, Shades of Grey follows the tradition of historically informed performance. In order to ground the music in space and time\, it will be interspersed with music from the time of George Grey’s government\, and substituted with readings from Grey’s writings on the collection and current views on his government. The Cape Consort is comprised of Tessa Roos and Vasti Knoesen (alto)\, Nick de Jager and Lance Phillip (tenor)\, Charles Ainslie and Patrick Cordery (bass)\, and Erik Dippenaar (organ).   Punchdrunk and Arcola Theatre | The Uncommercial Traveller MP3 players available from the ITC Festival Centre (6 Spin Street) from 08:30 - 13:00 | 13-16 March The tours can be downloaded from this website from 13 March Known in the UK for their innovative approaches to theatre and community engagement\, Arcola Theatre and Punchdrunk’s The Uncommercial Traveller project involves a series of workshops with post-graduate students and theatre practitioners to devise and write reflective audio tours in locations in Cape Town by using Charles Dickens’s approach of seeking out forgotten places and uncovering hidden stories.  Collaborating with internationally recognised local artist\, James Webb\, on the sound design\, these engaging audio tours will be made available to Festival audiences. The Uncommercial Traveller is supported by the British Council and to date has travelled to Karachi\, Melbourne\, Penang\, Singapore and Portsmouth. For full project information and audio downloads\, please see http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/the-uncommercial-traveller-international-workshops/ Thinking the City ITC Festival Centre (6 Spin Street) | 12-15 March | 10:30 - 12:00 Presented in collaboration with the Public Culture CityLab\, the four Thinking the City discussion sessions will contribute to the Infecting the City programme by unpacking a series of examples and contested territories related to cultural practice in the city. Themes will include: Public space\, festivalisation and contested cultural expression; Design and the creative city: the creative city for whom?; Managing access: city bylaws and the regulation of culture; and What makes art ‘public’?: reflections on participation and practice in contemporary public culture in South Africa.  These installations\, performances\, readings\, film screenings and discussion sessions will take place at various Cape Town venues\, and are presented by The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts\, as part of the 2013 programme for the Infecting the City Public Arts Festival. For more information on the Festival\, please visit www.infectingthecity.com. Video recordings from Infecting the City: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64949973[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64949971[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64949970[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64949972[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64947612[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64947613[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64947610[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64947611[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64947608[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64788411[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64788410[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64788409[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64708026[/vimeo] LOCATION: URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/infecting-the-city/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130312T103000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130315T120059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130207T200441 LAST-MODIFIED:20130530T113219 UID:1377-1363084200-1363348859@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Thinking the City DESCRIPTION: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 is presented as part of the Africa Centre’s annual Infecting the City Public Art Festival\, and seeks to strengthen thinking and practice at the intersection of culture and public space\, particularly in Cape Town. Cape Town has a long history of public art and culture\, and has more recently embraced the notion of a ‘creative city’. This is an exciting prospect for creative practitioners\, yet the question of ‘creative city for whom?’ keeps bubbling to the surface of public debate\, as different interest groups lay claim to the creative expression in\, and of\, public space. Thinking the City will contribute to the Infecting the City programme by unpacking a series of examples and contested territories related to cultural practice in the city\, in order to foster a more critical dialogue about creative practice in public space. It will comprise four presentation and discussion sessions. Tuesday 12 March | 10:30 - 12:00 Public space\, festivalisation and contested cultural expression Speakers: Rike Sitas and Oddveig Nicole Sarmiento Led by Public Culture CityLab co-convenor\, Rike Sitas\, and Oddveig Nicole Sarmiento (Centre for African Studies)\, the opening session Public space\, festivalisation and contested cultural expression aims to unpack questions of cultural expression in the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of public events and festivals. The Kaapse Klopse Minstrel Carnival in Cape Town is simultaneously the most popular and one of the most critiqued public space events in Cape Town. Discussing this case in the context of Infecting the City\, the speakers raise questions about the problematic popular culture vs ‘high’ art binary\, asking us to rethink cultural claims to expression and knowledge production in the city. Wednesday 13 March | 10:30 - 12:00 Design and the creative city: the creative city for whom? Speakers: Jenny Fatou Mbaye and Ralph Borland In Design and the creative city: the creative city for whom? the Africa Centre for Cities’ Jenny Fatou Mbaye and Ralph Borland lead the discussion. They consider how\, in the run-up to World Design Capital 2014\, quirky art and design projects that intervene creatively in urban space are presented as ways of changing our interaction with the city for the better\, opening up public space to new uses. The speakers discuss how this local repurposing of city space borrows from movements around the world\, and ask how this functions in our particular city: who are the audiences and participants in such projects - what do they include and what\, or whom\, is left out - highlighting how these reflect dual tensions between the global/local\, planned/organic\, official/civic\, legal/illegal nexus. Thursday 14 March | 10:30 - 12:00 Managing access: spatial challenges and the regulation of culture  Speakers: Edgar Pieterse and Ismail Farouk African Centre for Cities Director Professor Edgar Pieterse\, and Public Culture CityLab co-convenor Ismail Farouk\, address Managing access: spatial challenges and the regulation of culture\, delving into challenges related to achieving the design ambitions set out by the World Design Capital bid. Cape Town’s World Design Capital discourse speaks to the use of design for social transformation\, yet the city continues to exhibit skewed social and spatial legacies characterised by inward facing disadvantaged township areas and a highly regulated and exclusive central city\, along with highly restrictive regulatory frameworks around cultural access. This session explores how this discourse limits what is thinkable in contemporary African cities\, and touches on the Public Nuisance Abatement Bylaws and Graffiti Bylaw in order to raise questions around the regulation of cultural practices of art\, skating\, street trade and homelessness. Friday 15 March | 10:30 - 12:00 What makes art ‘public’?: publicness\, participation and critical practice Speakers:  Rangoato Hlasane and Kim Gurney In the final session\, What makes art ‘public’?: publicness\, participation and critical practice\, Johannesburg-based Rangoato Hlasane (co-founder Keleketla! Library) and Kim Gurney (University of Johannesburg’s Research Centre: Visual Identities in Art and Design) respond to the notion of ‘infection’ in Infecting the City. In a context where the novelty of public art has worn off\, and in the face of urban crisis; public art is beginning to take on a more critical approach to public space. Adressing the potential of truly infecting the city through cultural action\, this session will draw on a range of examples and experiences from contemporary public art practice in South Africa in order to unpack the complex relationship between public(s)\, publicness and participation in public art practice. Thinking the City is presented by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) and the Public Culture CityLab as part of the 2013 Infecting the City Festival. The sessions take place at the Infecting the City Festival Centre (6 Spin Street) from 10:30 – 12:00 daily\, from 12-15 March 2013\, and are free. No booking is required. For more information\, please visit www.gipca.uct.ac.za or contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 / fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. About the speakers Ralph Borland is a South African artist\, designer and technologist\, and a postdoctoral fellow at the African Centre for Cities. With an undergraduate degree in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town\, and a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University\, he completed his PhD in the School of Engineering at Trinity College\, Dublin. His thesis Radical Plumbers and PlayPumps – Objects in Development (2011) analyses the relationship between first world audiences and developing world users via designed objects. Borland’s protest-performance suit\, Suited for Subversion (2002) is in the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Ismail Farouk is an artist and urban researcher living and working in Cape Town. He holds the position of Researcher at the African Centre for Cities\, where he convenes the Central Citylab project and is responsible for the urban culture portfolio. In his artistic practice\, Farouk focuses on developing creative responses to social\, spatial and economic injustices. Kim Gurney works across disciplines in visual art\, academia and journalism. She has held two solo exhibitions\, participated in numerous group shows and more recently engages with other artists through curating. Kim is a Research Associate at UCT's African Centre for Cities and University of Johannesburg’s Research Centre: Visual Identities in Art and Design. Her current research focus is an art project that broadly explores public space in Johannesburg. She holds a BA Fine Art degree from the Uniersity of Cape Town\, an MA International Journalism from City University London\, and a B Journ from Rhodes University. Rangoato Hlasane is an artist\, writer\, illustrator and DJ and based in Johannesburg\, South Africa. He completed MTECH in Visual Arts from the University of Johannesburg\, FADA. His dissertation was an investigation into the role of the arts in mobilising communities. He is the co-founder and co-director of Keleketla! Library\, an independent\, interdisciplinary library based in Johannesburg. Hlasane has facilitated and coordinated community-based arts and development projects around South Africa over the last five years\, most recently with Thenjiwe Nkosi\, Raymond Marlowe and Musina artists for a formation of a community-led functional arts network in Musina. He acts on the advisory committee of VANSA Gauteng. Jenny Fatou Mbaye is the recipient of the Postdoctoral Ray Pahl Fellowship in Urban Studies hosted at the African Centre for Cities. Her research interests include cultural development and entrepreneurship\, creative work and industries\, practice and policy of cultural production in Africa\, especially in the Francophone West African fields of urban music. She has a PhD in Human Geography (urban cultural economy) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE\, 2011)\, a Graduate Diploma in Management of Cultural Organisations (HEC-Montreal\, 2006)\, an MSc in International Studies specialised in Ethnomusicology (University of Montreal\, 2005)\, and a BA in Sociology (Concordia University\, 2003). She is part of UNESCO pool of experts on the 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions for Francophone West Africa\, and worked as a research consultant for the next Creative Economy Report (2013\, UNESCO). Professor Edgar Pieterse holds the NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy\, and directs the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. He is a founder member of Isandla Institute\, serves on the Boards of Magnet Theatre\, the Sustainability Institute and the Cape Town Partnership; and also serves on the Council of the University of the Western Cape. Professor Pieterse holds a PhD from London School of Economics\, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague\, The Netherlands) and BA-Honours from the University of the Western Cape. Oddveig Nicole Sarmiento is a multidisciplinary artist and PhD candidate based at the University of Cape Town Centre for African Studies. She anchors her work on carnival aesthetics and the body in order to probe questions of epistemic violence as well as contemporary forms of social and spatial exclusion in the context of the city of Cape Town. Rike Sitas spends most of her time exploring and experimenting in the intersection of urban studies and creative action. She is particularly interested in the relationship between art\, technology\, and democratic spaces of social justice through an 'art of intimate encounters' (Miles). Sitas is the co-founder and co-director of the NPO\, dala\, an interdisciplinary network of creative practitioners that believe in the transformative role of public creativity. She also co-convenes the Public Culture CityLab at the African Centre for Cities\, where she is completing her PhD. About the Public Culture CityLab: The African Centre for Cities’ Public Culture CityLab is a platform for research\, creative practice\, and teaching. It has a conceptual focus on urban culture studies and is a response to the need for theorisation and research on the intersection of culture and public space in South African cities. More specifically\, the Public Culture CityLab focuses on exploring the following interconnected themes: public art / art in public; public culture and public space; and culture-led development. The Public Culture CityLab is co-convened by Ismail Farouk (ACC) and Rike Sitas (dala). http://africancentreforcities.net Thinking the City audio recording\, Tuesday 12 March is available for download. Thinking the City audio recording\, Wednesday 13 March is available for download. Thinking the City audio recording\, Thursday 14 March 2013 is available for download. Thinking the City audio recording\, Friday 15 March 2013 is available for download. Video recordings from Thinking the City: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64788411[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64788410[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64788409[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64708026[/vimeo] LOCATION:6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/thinking-the-city-discussion-sessions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130226T063000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130226T193059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20130207T194253 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T110320 UID:1363-1361860200-1361907059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Achille Mbembe public lecture DESCRIPTION:South African-based\, Cameroon-born philosopher\, intellectual and social theorist\, Professor Achille Mbembe\, will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday 26 February in Hiddingh Hall. The lecture is presented by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) in collaboration with the Michaelis School of Fine Art. His address will consider the importance of radical mediation between cultures\, translating experience and creating mutual understanding across international borders. Mbembe is widely accepted as one of the most significant thinkers\, theoretically examining the links between Africa\, the contemporary world\, and the way that history in and of Africa has impacted on notions of the contemporary. His seminal work\, On the Postcolony (2000\, English translation 2001)\, elicited much debate and ushered in a new discourse in the understanding and theorisation of Africa. Achille Mbembe obtained his Ph.D. in History at the University of Sorbonne in Paris\, France. He subsequently obtained a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in the same city. He has held appointments at Columbia University in New York\, Brookings Instituition in Washington\, D.C.\, University of Pennsylvania\, University of California\, Berkeley\, Yale University\, Duke University and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar\, Senegal. Mbembe is currently a member of the staff at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand as well as contributing editor of the scholarly journal Public Culture. He also has an annual appointment as a visiting faculty member in department of English at Duke University. Mbembe has written extensively on African history and politics and his work has been translated in various languages. He is the author of many books in French\, including Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l"Afrique decolonisee (Paris\, 2010)\, and is also the winner of the Bill Venter/Altron Award for his On the Postcolony (2001). This lecture also forms part of the conference Between the Lines – a joint project of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste\, Braunschweig\, Germany\, and the Michaelis School of Fine Art\, University of Cape Town. This conference is open to the public and runs from 25 to 28 February 2013. Mbembe’s address will take place at Hiddingh Hall\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town on Tuesday 26 February at 18:30 and is free. Light refreshments will be served afterward. No Booking is necessary. For more information on this lecture\, please contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. For Between the Lines conference information\, please visit www.betweenlines.co.za. Achille Mbembe audio recording is available for download. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/achille-mbembe-public-lecture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121203T183000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121203T193059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20121113T092434 LAST-MODIFIED:20130530T110953 UID:1309-1354559400-1354563059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Post-apartheid Dance' DESCRIPTION:Edited by Sharon Friedman\, Post-apartheid Dance - many bodies\, many voices\, many stories presents unique perspectives on post-apartheid dance in South Africa by South African authors. Beginning with a historical context for dance in South Africa\, the book reflects the multiplicity of bodies\, voices and stories suggested by the title. Post-apartheid Dance is the first singular body of work to have emerged in any book form that attempts to provide a cohesive account of the range of voices within post-apartheid South African dance. Authors include Adrienne Sichel\, Maxwell Xolani Rani\, Elizabeth Triegaardt\, Gerard Samuel\, Steven van Wyk\, Lliane Loots and Kristina Johnstone. The book launch will take place at the Cape Town City Hall media room on Monday 3 December at 18:30 and admission in free. Photo from cover image featuring Desiree Davids; photo John Hogg. Praise for Post-Apartheid Dance: “… the first –and long overdue –volume to grapple with the legacies of apartheid in dance . This exciting volume celebrates the diversity of that world while spotlighting its continuing quest for full artistic enfranchisement.” Lynn Garafola\, Professor of Dance-Barnard College\, New York\,USA ”These essays provide an invaluable contribution to dance studies\, juxtaposing embodied experiences with critical reflections\, which shift perspectives of dance practice in a global context. Christy Adair\, Professor of Dance\, York St John University\, UK.  Video recording from 'Post-apartheid Dance' book launch: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64548315[/vimeo] LOCATION:Darling Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/book-launch-post-apartheid-dance/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121202 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20121107T202239 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T121238 UID:1303-1354060800-1354406400@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Boris Nikitin | Workshops and Performances DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed experimental theatre artist\, Boris Nikitin headlines GIPCA’s Live Art Festival with two works – Imitation of Life and Woyzeck – and a series of workshops\, part of a South African tour supported by Pro Helvetia. Boris Nikitin is a Swiss theatre director\, space designer\, and curator with a French-Russian-Slovakian-Jewish background. His works are a mix between lecture performance and illusion theatre\, exploring the boundaries between reality and theatre; jumping from the highly conceptual to great theatricality\, playing with the boundaries between offensive dilettantism and acting virtuosity. Conceptualised in collaboration with writers and performers Malte Scholz and Beatrice Fleischlin\, Imitation of Life is a documentary style piece about fraud\, manipulation and the pwer of affirmation. Two actors take to the stage as experts of trickery\, opening the audience to a series of questions: What is real? Who influences our perceptions? What do we believe and for how long? A profound piece which points to the origin of our suspicion that things might not be what they appear to be. Imitation of Life will be performed in German\, with English subtitles. Woyzeck\, also conceptualised with Malte Scholz\, is a lecture piece combining elements of radio. It is founded on Georg Büchner's famous play\, Woyzeck\, first published in 1879\, about a military barber who stabs his common-law wife to death for her infidelity. Nikitin's piece deals with themes of mental capacity and guilt on the one hand; and questions around authorship - who indeed wrote the original play\, Woyzeck - on the other. The overarching questions that arise are: Is there a soul where one can allocate responsibility? Are you the author of your life or not? What is life\, really? Described as “an evening changing between a strange lecture performance and an experimental radio show”\, it features a live audio stream of the performance on the web. Following from his ground breaking performance work\,the workshops take participants through a process that is innovative\, highly considered and unique. As part of this maverick style\, Nikitin draws uncommon wisdom from an unlikely text  How to Win Friends & Influence People\, Dale Carnegie's bestselling coaching guidebook book from the 1930's\, which the question: “What skills and forms of communication can I use in order to influence a situation (ie reality) so that it develops in a way that I want to?” It facilitates the goal of becoming an authentic\, respected and convincing person. But what is reality if it is at first a question of persuasive power? Nikitin’s workshops consider the recreation of reality on stage. Theatre is about acting a different character or playing a role. Performance is often about performing yourself or claiming to be yourself\, and playing with the illusion of authenticity. Using dates\, information and stories of one's own biography (true or fake) a performative self-portrait is created\, with the possibility of identity being in constant flux; changing from word to word\, movement to movement. The workshops deal with being yourself on stage (or claiming it)\, working with reality\, playing with reality\, and questioning reality; with the rolemodel of a conman – the one who convinces and influences other people\, who makes other people believe and trust him. Boris Nikitin’s workshops will be presented on 28 and 29 November from 14h00 – 18h00 on UCT’s Hiddingh Campus and are open to members of the public. The workshops are free\, but booking is essential. For bookings\, please contact the GIPCA office on fin-gipca@uct.ac.za or 021 480 7156. Imitation of Life will be performed at UCT’s Little Theatre at 20h00 on Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December; tickets are R30 (adults) and R25 (students) and available through www.webtickets.co.za. The performance on 30 November forms part of the GIPCA Live Art Festival opening night. Woyzeck will be performed on Saturday 1 December on Hidingh Campus\, also as part of the Live Art Festival. Live Art Festival tickets are R70 (adults) and R40 (students) per night. For the full Festival programme\, please see http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/live-art-festival/. Boris Nikitin video recordings: Full: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64310282[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64310289[/vimeo]   Short: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64310281[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64310280[/vimeo] LOCATION:31-37 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/boris-nikitin-public-workshops/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130120 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20121105T195932 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T112731 UID:1295-1354060800-1358640000@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Jared Thorne | 'Black Folk' DESCRIPTION:The Gordon Institute for Performing Arts (GIPCA)\, in association with the Michaelis Galleries and hosted by Iziko Museums of South Africa\, presents the 2012 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow\, Jared Thorne’s exhibition Black Folk. The exhibition\, the culmination of Thorne’s Fellowship at the University of Cape Town will be on show at the Iziko South African National Gallery Annexe from 28 November until 19 January 2013. Thorne embarked on a transcontinental search for expressions of Black middle class culture. Seeking to challenge hegemonic\, as well as self-imposed constructs of Black identity\, his work centers on issues of race\, class and gender and engages questions of authenticity\, representation and history. He challenges viewers to redefine their conceptual understanding of modern Black culture. Thorne asks why so many Black Africans find the Mother City’s embrace suffocating instead of welcoming. “Paramount in my work and research is how social class plays a significant role in defining how one witnesses ‘Blackness’\,” comments Thorne. Through photography and audio interviews\, he seeks to facilitate extensive visual and verbal dialogue on how identity is created in the global south\, specifically in Cape Town. Combining large format film photographs alongside excerpts from various interviews\, Thorne hopes to present a new vision of Black South Africans. Jared Thorne grew up in Boston\, Massachusetts. He holds a BA in English from Dartmouth College\, a Postgraduate certificate from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters Degree from Columbia University. He has worked as a journalist at CNN\, where he was a member of an Emmy award-winning team in 2006. Thorne has served as a lecturer at Queens College\, Columbia University\, and currently teaches in Stellenbosch Academy's photography department. The exhibition opens on Wednesday 28 November at 19:00 at the Iziko South African National Gallery Annexe\, St’ Johns Road and runs until 19 January. Gallery hours are 10:00 – 17:00\, Monday Friday. For more information\, please contact nadja.daehnke@uct.ac.za or +27 21 480 7170.  Video recording of Black Folk exhibition opening: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64548314[/vimeo] LOCATION:St John's Road, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/jared-thorne-black-folk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121009T193000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121013T203059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20121002T075518 LAST-MODIFIED:20121025T122408 UID:1241-1349811000-1350160259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Khayelihle Dom Gumede - Crepuscule DESCRIPTION:Literary icon Can Themba (widely known as writer for DRUM magazine) is remembered through Khayelihle Dom Gumede’s presentation of Themba’s Crepuscule. Gumede is the third 2012 winner of the Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary. Crepuscule is an adaptation of literary giant Can Themba’s short story of the same title. The play\, much like the short story\, charters a fictional interpretation of a real life love affair between Themba and a white woman\, ‘Janet’\, in Sophiatown during the 1950’s. Set in the often revered and romanticised world of Sophiatown\, the play uses this relationship to ask whether we are products of our environment or if we choose who we want to be. A story about human connection and a search for freedom and humanity\, this production is an ensemble-based treat; with poetry of language\, movement and song forming its rich presentation. In the tradition of several recent revivals such as Farber’s Mies Julie and Kerfoot’s Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act; this high energy\, fast-paced production takes a look at a time much closer to who and where we are today\, than we would like to admit. Khayelihle Dom Gumede recently completed a BA in Dramatic Arts at Wits University\, majoring in Directing\, Performance and Writing. His directing credits include The Complete Works (2010)\, Can Themba's Crepuscule (2011/2012)\, the main production of the Highfield Theatre Festival\, When We are Naked (2011)\, Finding Nemorena (2012)\, Tilt (due to premier at PopArt in 2012)\, Paul Slabolepszy's Over the Hill (2012) Gumede is the Festival Director and Co-ordinator of the WALE (Wits Art and Literature Experience) Festival 2012\, as well as the curator and Festival Director of ‘Sneak Peeks Festival: The Jozi G-Town Experience’ at PopArt. Gumede is also the Artistic Director of Co-Lab Express\, a new\, young theatre company operating in association with UJ Arts Centre. He has written productions for Ipelegeng Community Centre\, has performed and conducted workshops for the Sasol Schools Festival\, and is currently engaged with field work for the Market Theatre. Recent awards include an Ibsen Award\, for which he directed the South African adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People\, produced by Chisa and the Market Theatre\, performed in Zimbabwe and due to tour South Africa. Can Themba was posthumously awarded The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for "Excellent achievement in literature\, contributing to the field of journalism and striving for a just and democratic society in South Africa." Featuring Kgomotso Matsunyane\, Glen Biederman-Pam\, Mikkie-Dene le Roux\, Anele Situlweni\, Luvuyo Mabuto and Nobuhle Ketelo; Crepuscule will run at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective (cnr Wesley and Milton Streets\, Observatory) from 9 to 13 October 2012 at 7:30pm nightly. The Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary is presented by the Theatre Arts Admin Collective\, GIPCA\, the Baxter Theatre Centre and Distell .   LOCATION:Cnr Wesley and Milton Streets, Observatory, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/khayelihle-dom-gumede-crepuscule/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121024T200000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121024T213059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20121001T101416 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T112052 UID:1238-1351108800-1351114259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Music in the City - The UCT Jazz Voices with Mike Rossi DESCRIPTION:The highly acclaimed jazz vocal group UCT Jazz Voices\, directed by Amanda Tiffin\, will perform well-known jazz standards and South African favourites arranged for jazz choir\, in what promises to be thrilling and unique concert. They will be joined by woodwind specialist Mike Rossi who has recently returned from two European tours that included performances in England\, Austria and Italy. The programme will include items such as As Time Goes By\, Don't Get Around Much Anymore\, When I Fall In Love (featuring the vocal ensemble with rhythm section)\, and a choice of a cappella songs. They will also feature South African composers such as Themba Mkhize and Busi Mhlongo\, and some surprises from the 21st century pop repertoire. The UCT Jazz Voices comprise five of the best Jazz Singing students at UCT\, under the leadership of well-known jazz artist\, Amanda Tiffin. This small vocal ensemble was established in 2010\, primarily as a learning tool for students of Jazz Singing\, but they far exceeded expectations and quickly become a top class jazz vocal group in the tradition of the Manhattan Transfer and the New York Voices. Offering an exciting blend of close harmony in the old jazz tradition\, and youthful energy\, the UCT Jazz Voices perform a range of repertoire from jazz classics\, South African standards and re-imaginings of current radio hits. The ensemble was selected as the best UCT Jazz Ensemble in 2010\, and they have continued to impress with their excellence and professionalism in a variety of contexts. They performed for Symphonic Rocks in Cape Town and Johannesburg in 2011 and 2012\, backing 12 top SA Artists\, alongside a 60-piece orchestra. The group was invited to perform their own concert as part of the Jazz at the Nassau concert in 2011 and 2012\, and appeared as special guests on the annual Jazz in The Park concert and at St George’s Cathedral as part of the Raise the Roof concert series. Admission is free and no booking needed. Light refreshments will be served. For more information\, please contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 / fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Amanda Tiffin graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1999 with a Masters Degree in jazz composition and vocal performance. She has gone on to become one of Cape Town’s best-loved vocalist-pianists\, and a respected Musical Director/Arranger\, orchestrator and composer\, recently joining the South African College Of Music at the  University of Cape Town as the Head of Jazz Singing. A versatile artist\, Tiffin has performed extensively in varying genres\, appearing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London\, and touring regularly as a jazz artist in Japan. She has recorded 3 albums\, the most recent with her Asia-based jazz group\, the a.s.k trio. She is Musical Director/Arranger for the award-winning a Capella group\, Not The Midnight Mass\, who released their new studio album Hot Cross Nun last year. Mike Rossi is Professor in Jazz at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town\, and gives regular international performances and workshops. He is the first recipient of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music\, Boston\, and serves as President of the South African Association for Jazz Education. Rossi has produced several publications of advance music and original compositions arranged for mixed ensemble\, a number of recordings\, and has performed with the likes of David Liebman\, Aretha Franklin and the Boston Big Band. Rossi plays Rampone & Cazzani Hand-Made Italian Saxophones. Video recording of UCT Jazz Voices with Mike Rossi: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65088533[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/music-in-the-city-the-uct-jazz-voices-with-mike-rossi/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121018T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121018T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120930T081219 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T111928 UID:1233-1350581400-1350585059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Anton Harber DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author and editor\, Professor Anton Harber\, will discuss why he chooses journalism in the final 2012 Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture Harber will examine the changing work and role of journalists in the perfect storm created by new technology\, and state and commercial pressures. Using his own work in his recently-published book Diepsloot as the basis of his discussion\, he will examine the challenge of journalism in this country\, posing pertinent questions: What kind of journalism do we want and need in the age of social media? What do we expect from our journalists in a struggling democracy? Do we want professionalism\, or activism\, from our reporters? Harber’s attempt to answer these questions draws on three very different texts:  Tiyo Soga's writing on the role of newspapers in Indaba\, one of the first newspapers for black readers; George Orwell's Why I write; and Eduardo Galeano's In Defence of the Word. Anton Harber was one of the founders of the Mail & Guardian in 1985 and went on to edit the newspaper for 12 years. Having also been an executive director of Kagiso Media\, he is now the Caxton Professor of Journalism at Wits University\, and chair of the Freedom of Expression Institute. He co-edited the first two editions of The A–Z of South African Politics (Penguin\, 1994/5)\, What is Left Unsaid: Reporting the South African HIV Epidemic (Jacana\, 2010) and Troublemakers: The best of SA’s investigative journalism (Jacana\, 2010). His book\, Diepsloot\, was published by Jonathan Ball in May 2011\, and won the Recht Malan Prize for Non-Fiction Writing.  Harber writes a regular column in Business Day and blogs at www.theharbinger.co.za. His latest venture is in non-fiction e-publishing\, www.mampoer.co.za. Admission is free and no booking is needed. Refreshments will be served from 17:00. For more information\, contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 / fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Anton Harber video recording: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64789696[/vimeo]     LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-anton-harber/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121011T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121011T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120914T095352 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T111722 UID:1206-1349976600-1349980259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Steven Friedman DESCRIPTION:Political Scientist Steven Friedman talks about Freedom for the Few: Ending the Middle Class Monopoly on South African Democracy. “That South African democracy has survived nearly two decades largely intact has confounded predictions and needs explaining. The chief reason lies in the persistence\, post-1994\, of strong concentrations of private power\, which have checked authoritarian impulses in government. While this has ensured democracy's survival\, it has also ensured that its defense has largely been mounted in the language of white\, middle class\, suburbia - and that freedom is largely seen as the protection of the economic and cultural domination of the few” comments Friedman. Democracy is clearly too important to be left to so narrow a support base and the key challenge currently is to broaden the social base of support for democracy. An illustrative example of limits and possibilities is the experience of Cosatu\, the largest organised interest group outside the middle class\, which has played a role in defending democracy. Friedman explores these ideas in his book Building Tomorrow Today - a study of the South African trade union movement and the implications of its growth for democracy. Professor Steven Friedman is Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg. He is a political scientist who has specialised in the study of democracy. Friedman has researched and published widely on the South African transition to democracy both before and after the elections of 1994 and has\, over the past decade\, largely written on the relationship between democracy on the one hand and social inequality and economic growth on the other; in particular\, stressing the role of citizen voice in strengthening democracy and promoting equality. He is also the editor of The Long Journey and The Small Miracle (with Doreen Atkinson)\, which presented the outcome of two research projects on the South African transition. He is currently studying the role of citizen action in strengthening and sustaining democracy. Refreshments will be served from 17:00. No Booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts / Big Questions series\, please contact 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Steven Friedman audio recording available for download. Steven Friedman video recording: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64825025[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-steven-friedman/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121004T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121004T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120914T093408 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T111454 UID:1203-1349371800-1349375459@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Adam Haupt DESCRIPTION:Adam Haupt discusses the Fanonian resonances in his new book Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music\, Media and Film. Cutting across academic disciplines\, the creative arts and the media\, Haupt's interdisciplinary book forms the basis of his presentation which critically examines music\, cinema\, social media and the politics of change after apartheid. Static explores some of the ambiguities of life in contemporary South Africa\, providing key insights into recent media phenomena\, such as Die Antwoord; the 2010 Soccer World Cup; Bok van Blerk; Tsotsi; Kuli Roberts’ Sunday World column on ‘coloureds’; revisionist film Afrikaaps; the University of the Free State’s Reitz video scandal; umShini Wami and The Spear. Playing with two different definitions of the term 'static'\, it poses two central questions: Is South Africa changing for the better\, or are we static? Is there too much static for us to hear each other clearly? Haupt investigates the notion of creative and political agency in South Africa after apartheid\, contending that although it is possible for a newer generation of South African artists to move beyond the confines of apartheid racial thinking\, the challenges of the past have not all dissipated. By examining racial and gender politics in work by a range of artists\, it would appear the legacy of a patriarchal\, racialised system lingers on. Moreover\, Haupt explains\, South Africa’s neoliberal economic policies have perpetuated an order that protects uneven access to (cultural) resources. It is arguable that not much has changed for marginalized artists in South Africa\, given the persistence of media monopolies\, racialised class disparities and attitudes towards race. Adam Haupt is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Stealing Empire: P2P\, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion\, published by the HSRC Press in 2008. In 2010\, he was a Mandela Mellon Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University\, where he conducted research for this book. Haupt has taught at the Universities of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch\, and freelanced as an arts journalist for publications such as the Mail & Guardian. In the mid-nineties\, he set the scene for research on black youth culture with his work on pioneer rap crew Prophets of da City\, whose work was banned by the previous government. Refreshments will be served from 17:00. No Booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts / Big Questions series\, please contact 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Adam Haupt audio recording is available for download. Adam Haupt video recording: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64789695[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-adam-haupt/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120928 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121014 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120907T102421 LAST-MODIFIED:20120927T103516 UID:1046-1348790400-1350172800@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:'EKDUO' and 'Facing the Climate' DESCRIPTION:Two environmentally-focussed exhibitions will feature as part of The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts’ (GIPCA) Hot Water symposium on climate change\, which will take place at UCT’s Hiddingh Campus 28-29 September 2012. Facing the Climate\, curated by Ann-Marie Tully\, and Simon Max Bannister’s EKDUO will be exhibited at Michaelis Galleries until 13 October. The Facing the Climate exhibition series combines climate-themed cartoons by five Swedish artists\, with the climate-related artworks of artists in host countries. In this case five South African cartoonists join five Swedish cartoonists in taking a sharp look at the climate issue\, with the aim of encouraging discussion about the sustainable society and heightening awareness of current environmental problems. Facing the Climate has been staged in a number of international contexts\, with exhibitions taking place during 2012 in Rio\, Athens\, Tirana\, Tel Aviv and Novosibirsk amongst other cities around the world. The Facing the Climate exhibition in South Africa is curated by Ann-Marie Tully\, in association with the Swedish Embassy of South Africa. Facing the Climate is part of a concerted drive\, conceptualised by the Swedish Institute\, to promote critical sustainable development under the heading Facing the Future – Sustainability the Swedish Way. The impetus behind this began in December 2009 in relation to the Copenhagen Climate Conference\, when a group of 25 Nordic newspaper cartoonists provided some amusing and alarming reflections on climate change. To illustrate Sweden’s active involvement in this area\, the Swedish Institute developed the exhibition Facing the Climate in collaboration with the Swedish cartoonists/illustrators Magnus Bard\, Helena Lindholm and Riber Hansson. At Michaelis Galleries these artists will be joined by fellow Swedish artists Love Antell and Karin Sunvisson in commenting on the global climate dilemma. The South African cartoonists/illustrators involved in this project are Tony Grogan\, Wilson Mgobhozi\, Ree Treweek\, Sifiso Yalo and Zapiro. The Facing the Climate exhibition is accompanied by a workshop\, bringing participants together with the South African cartoonists and the exhibition curator in an interactive event that considers and enacts the communicative and cathartic potential of cartoons. These simultaneously critical and humorous visual devices have the potential to bring viewers and makers into more intimate and comprehensible relations with the often titanic narratives of climate change. The workshop takes places on Friday 28 September from 14:00 – 16:00 at Michaelis Galleries and attendance is free of charge. The second exhibition at the Michaelis Galleries\, EKDUO\, features an installation by environmental artist Simon Max Bannister. Inspired in his endeavours by the regenerative processes of nature\, Bannister has been hunting plastic litter for four years. His search has taken him from the streets of Johannesburg\, down the rivers and coastlines of South Africa\, into the open ocean; creating art that uses the menace as the medium. EKDUO (from the ancient Greek\, meaning “to put off the body\, the clothing of the soul”)\,  represents a longing to shed our skin\, to be rid of excess and the obsolete. “In moulting lies destruction and creation\, concepts central to all life. The snake’s transformation in moulting reflects a need for entropy and rebirth - observing this has the potential to start a process of transformation within ourselves\, adapting this shedding behaviour to our own culture. The symbolic moulting of a snake in this exhibition becomes a challenge to detach and innovate\, to recreate new forms of consumption and being within culture” comments Bannister. Facing the Climate and EKDUO open at 18:00 on Friday 28 September in Hiddingh Hall\, and will run until Saturday 13 October 2012 at Michaelis Galleries.  Opening hours are Tuesdays – Fridays 11:00 to 16:00 and Saturdays 10:00 to 13:00\, or by appointment. The Facing the Climate workshop is free\, but booking is essential. Workshop bookings and all exhibition queries should be directed to nadja.daehnke@uct.c.za or 021 480 7170. Hot Water will take place at Hiddingh Hall\, UCT Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town from 28 – 29 September 2012. The symposium is free and open to all\, but booking is essential. For further information and bookings\, contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156  or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. The updated Hot Water 2012 programme is available for download. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/ekduo-and-facing-the-climate/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120927T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120927T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120906T154909 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T110239 UID:1038-1348767000-1348770659@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Ferial Haffajee DESCRIPTION:Editor-in-Chief of City Press newspaper and former Editor of the Mail & Guardian\, Ferial Haffajee\, will discuss the National Development Plan\, considering many questions that arise from it\, most significantly whether it is an unattainable dream\, or initiates our every potential. Often spearheading controversy\, Haffajee has been lauded for her social and political savvy and courage; with stories of national and international significance\, such as the Kebble murder trial and most recently the controversies around artist Brett Murray’s The Spear\, rising to prominence under her editorship. Haffajee chairs the SA National Editors Forum’s ethics and diversity committee\, and sits on the boards of the International Press Institute and the World Editors Forum\, as well as Gender Links – an organisation focused on improving the media’s coverage of development and gender empowerment.  She is a previous winner of the Shoprite-Checkers Woman of the Year award\, The Media magazine’s Women in Media award and a Sanlam Financial Journalism award.  In 2008\, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. An alumnus of the Africa Leadership Initiative\, she has also worked at Financial Mail and at the SABC in both radio and television. Business Day Editor Peter Bruce called Haffajee “the country's first celebrity editor”\, describing her as “thoughtful\, conciliatory and gentle\, [and] for an editor\, wildly popular.“ Refreshments will be served from 17:00. No Booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts / Big Questions series\, please contact +27 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Ferial Haffajee audio recording available for download. Ferial Haffajee video recording: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64789693[/vimeo]   LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-ferial-haffajee/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120920T193000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120920T200059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120903T114707 LAST-MODIFIED:20120920T195110 UID:1027-1348169400-1348171259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Films4Peace DESCRIPTION:GIPCA will join hundreds of art institutions worldwide\, from Australia to Zimbabwe\, supporting films4peace to celebrate World Peace Day — an international UN day of ceasefire\, and a day for individuals\, organisations and countries to demonstrate acts of peace.  films4peace\, curated by Mark Coetzee\, is an annual short film commission by PUMA.Peace. It features 21 of today’s most innovative artists visually interpreting the subject of peace. Live screenings will be held at major museums globally\, including the Bass Museum of Art (Miami\, USA) and the Design Museum (London\, UK); in public urban spaces\, such as the City of Barcelona (Spain) and the Laumeier Sculpture Park (St. Louis\, USA); educational institutions and youth leadership conferences\, such as the H&R Block Artspace\, Kansas City Art Institute (USA) and the 2012 One Young World summit (Pittsburgh\, USA). The films include 35 mm live action\, experimental animation and fine art\, and are 30- to 90-seconds in length. None of the films are language specific. The  artists were selected for the quality and scope of their work and their sensitivity in interpreting the theme. “The fine selection and curation of artists is testament to the seriousness of purpose behind this important global initiative. We feel privileged to join art institutions worldwide to showcase relevant and cutting edge international work to simultaneously mark World Peace Day. Given the upcoming Heritage weekend\,  it is also a particularly significant time for South Africans” commented Jay Pather\, Director of GIPCA. “Artists confront us with the challenges that face us at this time\,” said Mark Coetzee\, films4peace curator. “films4peace are both disturbing and inspiring\, responsive to the reality of our time but they also ask us to be responsible for our actions. PUMA.Peace wishes to contribute to making the world a better place. A world that is safer\, more peaceful and more creative. We are honoured that GIPCA has joined us in this important initiative.” Curator Mark Coetzee has invited 21 artists to create 17 new works: Janet Biggs (USA) Ergin Cavuşoğlu (Bulgaria) Magali Charrier (France) Gregory Crewdson and Costanza Theodoli-Braschi (USA and UK) Yang Fudong (China) Tom Gran and Kayleigh Gibbons (UK) Max Hattler (Germany) Isaac Julien (UK) Peterson Kamwathi (Kenya) Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy (Ireland) Nandipha Mntambo (Swaziland) Michael Nyman (UK) Noriko Okaku (Japan) Jacco Olivier (Netherlands) Bill Porter (UK) Levi van Veluw (Netherlands) Hank Willis Thomas and Terence Nance (USA) In keeping with the spirit of the commission\, these films will be gifted to the world\, within public domain and screening cost free\, as tools for peace. By releasing these short films as broadly as possible\, on mutiple live and virtual platforms\, the aim is to effect positive social change and broaden the discussions around peace globally. The GIPCA screening will take place at Hiddingh Hall\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town on Thursday 20 September 2012 at 19:30 (note that this screening is on the night before World Peace Day) and is free. No Booking is necessary. For more information\, please contact +27 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Filmstill by Isaac Julien. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/films4peace/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120920T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120920T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120903T110117 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T105642 UID:1025-1348162200-1348165859@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Kiran Desai DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed author Kiran Desai will do a reading of her work\, followed by a discussion\, as part of the Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture series. The event is presented in association with the UCT Centre for Creative Writing as part of Open Book Cape Town\, and takes place on Thursday 20 September 2012. Kiran Desai\, daughter of author Anita Desai\, was born in India and attended Bennington College\, Hollins University and Columbia University\, where she studied creative writing. Even before winning the Booker Prize\, Desai has been a writer central to international literature. She first came to literary attention in 1997 when she was published in the New Yorker and Mirrorwork\, in an anthology of 50 years of Indian writing\, edited by Salman Rushdie. In 1998\, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard – a pacy\, fresh look at life in the provincial town of Shahkot in India and simultaneous study of the pathos of familial misunderstanding\, hero-worship\, the unpredictability of commercialism and the ineptness of officialdom – was published to critical acclaim.  She says\, "I think my first book was filled with all that I loved most about India and knew I was in the inevitable process of losing. It was also very much a book that came from the happiness of realising how much I loved to write." Eight years later\, The Inheritance of Loss – set in the mid-1980s in a Himalayan village – was published\, taking on subjects such as morality and justice\, globalisation\, racial\, social and economic inequality\, fundamentalism and alienation. It was awarded the coveted 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction\, the 2007 National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award\, and shortlisted for several other international awards.  When talking of the characters in The Inheritance of Loss\, and of her own life\, Desai says\, "The characters of my story are entirely fictional\, but these journeys (of her grandparents) as well as my own provided insight into what it means to travel between East and West and it is this I wanted to capture. The fact that I live this particular life is no accident. It was my inheritance." Refreshments will be served from 17:00. No Booking is necessary. For more information on the Great Texts / Big Questions series\, please contact +27 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Photo by Jerry Bauer Kiran Desai audio recording available for download. Video recording of Kiran Desai: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/53517683[/vimeo]   LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-kiran-desai/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120919T200000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120919T220059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120901T140500 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T105339 UID:1034-1348084800-1348092059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Music in the City - South African Flute Music DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed flautist Liesl Stoltz will present a program of contemporary South African flute works at Hiddingh Hall\, as part of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts’ Music in the City concert series. Classical flute music by South African composers generally gets very little exposure; given the complex and ‘academic’ nature of the oeuvre\, these works are rarely included in recital programmes. They are often prescribed for university examinations and competitions\, but tend to be passed over when programming decisions are made\, in favour of more popular ‘crossover’ music. In addition\, recordings of South African flute works (including compositions for solo flute\, chamber music and flute concertos) are hardly ever commercially available. As a result\, South African classical composers of flute music receive very limited recognition\, despite their compositions often proving to be unique in character when compared to other classical flute works. This Music in the City programme provides a distinctive opportunity to right this imbalance through its promotion ofthe South African flute repertoire\, and making classical music lovers aware of the unique contribution of local composers. The concert will feature works by South African composers Peter Klatzow\, Stefans Grové\, Hendrik Hofmeyr\, and Paul Hanmer; performed by Stoltz\, with esteemed musicians Francois du Toit (piano)\, Albie van Schalkwyk (piano)\, Frank Mallows (marimba)\, Peter Martens (cello) and Magdalene Minnaar (soprano). No Booking is necessary. For more information on the Music in the City series\, please contact +27 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. PROGRAMME: Peter Klatzow: Sur une route toute blanche    Stefans Grové: Soulbird trio    Peter Klatzow: Figures in a landscape   INTERVAL Hendrik Hofmeyr: Il giardino delle Esperidi     Paul Hanmer: Skelmbos  Hendrik Hofmeyr: Dover Beach MUSICIANS: Liesl Stoltz performs extensively as soloist and chamber musician in South Africa and abroad. An award-winning classical flautist\, she spent several years in Paris and Italy where she studied with flute virtuosi such as Shigenori Kudo\, Pierre Yves Artaud and Peter Lukas Graf. Stoltz teaches privately and at the South African College of Music\, UCT\, where she is also a Mellon Foundation Post-doctorate Fellow. Francois du Toit is acknowledged as one of South Africa’s finest pianists\, chamber musicians and music educators. An Associate Professor of Piano and head of Chamber Music at the South African College of Music\, UCT\, he is an acclaimed concerto soloist\, sought-after partner of visiting international artists in recital for chamber music societies throughout South Africa\, and a highly respected adjudicator at the various national music competitions. Albie van Schalkwyk is considered one of the country’s foremost chamber musicians and vocal accompanists. He was the original pianist of the PotchTrio\, founder member of the SA Chamber Music Society and has toured nationally with many distinguished international artists. Currently Professor of Piano at the South African College of Music\, UCT\, he also regularly spends time as guest lecturer at the Neuberger Internationale Kulturtage in Austria. Frank Mallows is currently the Principal of the Beau Soleil Music Centre in Kenilworth\, Cape Town\, a position he has held for the past 16 years. He is also the Percussion and Drum Set lecturer at the South African College of Music.Mallows has studied with two of the world's leading mallet percussion specialists\, Americans Robert van Sice (with whom he focused on solo marimba)\, and Ed Saindon (specialising in contemporary jazz vibraphone techniques). Peter Martens’ career as orchestral cellist saw him occupying principal positions in several South African orchestras and working with the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London. He currently divides his time between the management of the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival and the Endler Concert Series at Stellenbosch University\, and extensive chamber music and solo schedules. Magdalene Minnaar freelances across South Africa\, appearing as vocal soloist in various productions and concerts. She made her debut as the female lead\, Christine Daee\, in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical Phantom of the Operain November 2011. Minnaar has collaborated widely with contemporary and electronic musicians\, composers and theatre makers. Her company\, Biblioteek Music Productions\, provides a platform for performers\, composers and designers to collaborate on theatrical music productions. Video Recording of South African Flute Music: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65088534[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/music-in-the-city-south-african-flute-music/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120913T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120913T183059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120824T130606 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T104513 UID:1020-1347557400-1347561059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts - Damon Galgut DESCRIPTION:Award-winning novelist\, short story writer and playwright Damon Galgut is the next speaker in the Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture series. Departing from its usual lecture format\, this event features Galgut in conversation with the series convenor and Director of the Centre for Creative Writing\, Imraan Coovadia. Damon Galgut studied drama at the University of Cape Town. He was only seventeen when his debut novel\, A Sinless Season\, was published in 1984. Small Circle of Beings (1988)\, a collection of short stories in which Galgut drew on his own experience of serious illness\, was followed by the award-winning novel The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (1991)\, perhaps his most overtly political book\, and The Quarry (1995). It was not until the publication of The Good Doctor in 2003\, however\, that Galgut reached a far wider readership. This novel\, exploring the relationship between two contrasting characters in a remote\, rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa\, was enthusiastically received by critics - shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, and awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book from the Africa Region. The Good Doctor was followed by The Impostor (2008). Since then\, he has won and been shortlisted for a host of additional awards\, including being on the shortlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for his newest novel\, In a Strange Room. Galgut has written a number of plays including Echoes of Anger\, Party for Mother\, Alive and Kicking and The Greens-keeper; his fiction has also been selected for the National Magazine Awards and the PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories Anthology. Imraan Coovadia graduated from Harvard and Yale\, and currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Cape Town\, where he is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing. Most recently\, he is the author of a novel\, The Institute for Taxi Poetry (2012) and a collection of essays\, Transformations (2012). In 2010 his novel High Low In-between won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the University of Johannesburg prize. He also has published a scholarly monograph with Palgrave\, Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul (2009)\, and two earlier novels (Green-Eyed Thieves and The Wedding). His fiction has been published in a number of countries\, and he has written for many newspapers\, journals\, and magazines locally and abroad. Refreshments will be served from 17:00. No Booking is necessary. For more information on the series\, please contact +27 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Photo by Nigel Maister. Damon Galgut audio recording available for download. Video Recording of Damon Galgut [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/53495619[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-damon-galgut/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121205 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120724T131844 LAST-MODIFIED:20130530T110735 UID:1001-1354233600-1354665600@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:GIPCA Live Art Festival DESCRIPTION:(Photo: Nelisiwe Xaba in Uncles & Angels\, by Nelisiwe Xaba and Mocke J van Veuren\, photo by Gilles Rammant\, 2011) GIPCA’s ground-breaking Live Art Festival will take place in various venues around Cape Town from 30 November to 4 December 2012\, and promises a plethora of provocative and memorable experiences for audience members. The Live Art Festival\, presented by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts and subtitled ‘Make-up your Mind’\, seeks to be a space for interrogation and exploration of contemporary art forms.  Embodying themes of presence\, identity and gender\, the inaugural Festival comprises 30 artists who emerge from a wide range of fields\, often collapsing disciplinary boundaries. This sprawling series of events will take place in various venues\, including the Cape Town City Hall\, UCT’s Hiddingh Campus\, roadside pavements and a farm. ‘But is it art?’ must be the mantra of our time - both an earnest question and a cliché that inspires irritation and impatience. Conflicting ideas about how we perceive and not just what we perceive\, the collapse of established systems based on prejudice\, and postcolonial subjectivities; have all contributed to a healthy and robust bewilderment around contemporary art\, particularly that emerging from South Africa.  Translate that into performance or live art\, and the risks are greater\, the innovation sharper\, the boundaries barely discernible and the befuddlement bordering on vertigo. Now more than ever before\, the point of view of the individual spectator is most important in their encounter with fresh work that sits on an edge. Uncles and Angels\, a headline performance by live art diva Nelisiwe Xaba and experimental filmmaker Mocke J van Veuren\, typifies the essential interdisciplinary nature of the Festival.  When featured at Dance Umbrella this year\, the work was described on Artslink.co.za as “uncomfortable... but done with intelligent intent\, wry humour\, a superb partnership and brilliant technology”\, heralding what will “surely become a signature work in years to come”. The Festival features a range of established live artists\, most of whom will premiere new work\, in interesting spaces around the city. These include John Nankin (co-founder of the ground-breaking Glass Theatre in 1979) who will perform at ZINK on Erf 81 in Tamboerskloof; Hlengiwe Lushaba Madlala; Athi-Patra Ruga decked out in a shop front\, bathed in purple neon; James Webb and Christian Nerf at the City Hall; Julia Raynham on the Grand Parade; and the formidable Tossie van Tonder\, who takes on the towering City Hall Auditorium. International contributions include those of Swiss director Boris Nikitin who will present two works - Imitation of Life and a startlingly innovative take on Woyzeck. Cia Independente from Maputo will present their provocative\, stirring work entitled A Nudez. Nikitin's performances are presented with support from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg; Cia Independente's performances are supported by Pro Helvetia through the regional programme with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Jamie Lewis Hadley from London will present a work which Lois Keidan\, co-founder of the trail-blazing Live Art Development Agency (UK)\, called “beautifully conceived and exquisitely performed”. Hadley focuses on using repetition\, duration\, blood and violent acts as strategies to interrogate the spectator’s capacity for complicity\, making work to disgust\, excite and provoke and promote spectator autonomy. An important focus of the Festival is the inclusion of work by young artists\, producing fresh new directions. Tebogo Munyai stunned audiences at the National Arts Festival\, Grahamstown with Right Inside\, presented on the Main Programme. Interdisciplinary trio Shariffa Ali\, Samkelisiwe Mabaso and Nobukho Nqaba will present an evocative installation involving an endurance performance. Other artists include Murray Kruger\, who has already developed a strong presence at events such as the Johannesburg Art Fair; Spirit Mba; the energetic duo Gabriella Pinto and Iman Isaacs; Richard September and Themba Mbuli. Contemporary approaches to art and technology feature strongly\, exemplified in the work of Sanjin Muftic and Richard Antrobus. Audiences can expect anything from sublime installations by light artist Vaughn Sadie and composer Dean Henning; quirky\, highly-crafted video by the award-winning Michael MacGarry; and heady\, detailed installations by Leila Anderson and Stan Wannet; to the intrusive\, anarchic Yaat Party by Trudy van Rooy and Chase Downes; a provocative performance by Thabiso Pule and Hector Thami Manekehla; Warona Seane's Buy This; and a work featuring three androgynous queens produced by renowned writer and performer Siya Ngcobo\, with dancer Llewellyn Mnguni and filmmaker Art. Free events leading up to the Festival include workshops by Boris Nikitin; and the culminating exhibition by 2012 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow\, Jared Thorne at the Iziko South African National Gallery Annexe.  The Festival will also feature the launch of Post-Apartheid Dance – a collection of essays edited by Sharon Friedman including writing by academics such as Xolani Rani\, to veteran arts journalist Adrienne Sichel. The GIPCA Live Art Festival runs from Friday 30 November to Tuesday 4 December 2012. Performances will only be staged once and\, as with most live art\, viewing room is very limited so members of the public are urged to book early. Tickets are day passes\, which will allow audience members entrance to between 3 and 7 works\, depending on the programme. In line with GIPCA’s policy to make such work widely accessible\, tickets are inexpensive: R40 (students) and R70 (adults) per day. These may be purchased online from Webtickets.co.za. For more information\, please contact the GIPCA office on fin-gipca@uct.ac.za or 021 480 7156. PLEASE NOTE: Due to large scale events taking place in the city center\, the Live Art programme planned for Sunday 2 December can no longer take place in the City Hall. These items will be absorbed into the programs scheduled on other days of the Festival. The curators have taken care to ensure that no work is compromised as a result. The REVISED LIVE ART FESTIVAL SCHEDULE with all performance times is available for download. Live Art Festival | Make Up Your Mind audio recording is available for download. Live Art Festival\, full programme is available for download. Live Art Festival video recordings: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64708025[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64708024[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64623955[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64545340[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64545341[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64545337[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64545338[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64545336[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64537448[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64537447[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64537445[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64537446[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64390030[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64389987[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64385210[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64385214[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64385213[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64385206[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64381715[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64381714[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64381713[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64379340[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64381711[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64376583[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64376580[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64310281[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64310282[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64310280[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64310289[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64162143[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64162139[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64142407[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64142406[/vimeo]   Please see the NEWS section of this website for additional information on performances and themes. The Live Art Festival is kindly supported by the City of Cape Town’s Arts and Culture Department. “Dance and performance have always formed a significant element of our cultural heritage and it is with great pleasure that the City of Cape Town supports this innovative and exciting festival in bringing cutting edge creative ideas to the public.” - Cllr Grant Pascoe\, Mayoral Committee Member: Tourism\, Events & Marketing With thanks to Pro Helvetia\, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC\, Michaelis Galleries\, Cape Town City Hall\, Little Theatre Complex\, Centre for Curating the Archive\, Africa Centre and Art Week Cape Town.   LOCATION: URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/live-art-festival/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120928 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120930 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120724T131425 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T115800 UID:998-1348790400-1348963200@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Hot Water Symposium DESCRIPTION:Visual art\, film and interdisciplinary conversations between the sciences and the arts dominate the Hot Water Symposium\, an event that focuses on climate change and the environment\, hosted by GIPCA in association with the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI). Presented for the second year running\, the main intention of this unique symposium is to probe the connections between scientific discourse and artistic production in an attempt to refine the expression of issues of climate change through artistic work. The symposium comprises art exhibitions\, film screenings\, a cartoon workshop\, presentations by keynote speakers and panel discussions. There is a growing consciousness of the abuse wrought on our natural environment. Whether it has been pure greed\, mis-management\, carelessness or at best\, ignorance\, the lack of sensitivity towards our only home has come back to haunt us. The arts are well placed to develop a consciousness of habits and destructive behaviour: visually arresting\, charged with metaphor and symbol\, visual arts and performance have the power to move\, startle and deepen one's consciousness. On Friday evening\, Professor Mark New\, Pro Vice-Chancellor at UCT and Director of the ACDI\, will deliver the keynote address followed by two exhibition openings\, Facing the Climate and Ekduo. Facing the Climate is conceptualised by the Swedish Institute and is a group show curated by Ann-Marie Tully. The exhibition comprises climate themed cartoons by five Swedish artists with the climate related artworks of five South African cartoonists taking a sharp look at issues of climate change. Ekduo\, an Ancient Greek expression that translates as  “to put off the body\, the clothing of the soul” looks at processes of transformation and change. Artist Simon Max Bannister explains: “Each of us long to ‘shed our skin’\, to be rid of the excess\, the old and the past. All life must change its skin or die.” Using recycled plastic as his main material\, Bannister’s subject is the snake\, noting that by “observing the snake’s transformation we get some insight into its behaviour\, and thus start a process of transformation within ourselves.” The Opening rounds up with the screening of The Age of Stupid which stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father\, The Usual Suspects) as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055\, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? The film by multi-award-winning documentary director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek was called "Bold\, supremely provocative and hugely important"\, by The Telegraph. ABC Australia said of the internationally acclaimed film "So tightly constructed and dynamic you leave the cinema energised rather than terrified... hits home like a hammer blow" and the LA Times said "Think 'An Inconvenient Truth'\, but with a personality". Saturday brings together a range of speakers and the screening of short films. In the first panel Penny Price (Climate Adaptation\, Climate Change and Biodiversity Directorate in the Western Cape) and Joseph Darron (Climate System Analysis Group) are joined by Ann-Marie Tully (University of Johannesburg) and Kai Lossgott (independent curator\, artist and environmental activist). Panelists will reflect on the ‘state of the art’ of their respective disciplines. These presentations will be followed by the screening of a selection of short films on climate change from from the series\, Letters from the Sky\, curated by Kai Lossgott.  Arts writer Alex Dodd commented in an article in Art South Africa:  “Like the Occupy movement\, the shared vision of environmental  justice (in Letters from the Sky) transcends geography and nationalism and\, in this sense\, captures the unfolding transnational zeitgeist of the twenty-first century." The panelists mentioned above will then be asked to comment on the films leading to a discussion with the audience on efficacy\, impact and urgency in the dissemination of information around issues of climate. A similar format follows with the second panel comprising architect Tom Sanya (UCT) environmental artist  Simon Max Bannister\, Sarah Ward (City of Cape Town’s\, Energy and Climate Change Division) and Warren Nebe (Director of the Drama for Life Programme at Wits University). The Hot Water Symposium also comprises a workshop and the screenings of several other films\, including Stories of the Future by Xolelwa Nhlabatsi.  This film traces the work of Johannesburg’s Drama For Life Company who used performance interventions at the 2011 COP17\, focusing on environmental sustainability\, the severe effects of climate change on the individual\, as well as our global survival into the future. Ann-Marie Tulley and Tony Grogan will lead a unique workshop in working with drawing and cartoons as mechanisms for giving shape and form to issues of climate change and environmental awareness. This dynamic and exciting symposium is free of charge but booking is essential. Refreshments will be served.  For more information and booking\, please contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. This webpage will be updated regularly with additional information and progamme details. Hot Water - Full programme is available for download. Hot Water audio recording\, Friday 28 Sept 2012 is available for download. Hot Water audio recording\, Saturday 29 Sept 2012 (Panel 1) is available for download. Hot Water audio recording\, Saturday 29 Sept 2012 (Panel 2) is available for download. Hot Water audio recording\, Saturday 29 Sept 2012 (Closing Comments) is available for download. Hot Water video recordings:  [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65556040[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65556041[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65556042[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001 URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/hot-water-festival/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120807T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120807T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120718T083451 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T101250 UID:984-1344358800-1344366059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:5 Thoughts: GIPCA Fellows' mid-term presentations DESCRIPTION:The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) presents 5 Thoughts\, an evening of performances\, exhibitions and lectures that brings together the unique work of its five resident Fellows in the fields of Theatre\, Dance\, Creative Writing and Fine Art. Recipients of the Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellowships\, these artists/researchers have been in residence since the beginning of the year and will present five distinct projects at the end of 2012. 5 Thoughts showcases all their work in one evening in a mid-term presentation of seminal ideas and will take place in various spaces on UCT’s Hiddingh Campus on Tuesday 7 August. Michael MacGarry\, 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art\, will present the making of a unique film in 5 Thoughts. MacGarry’s film\, exhibition and book project offering; As Above\, So Below; is principally focused on a philosophical re-imagining of the visit by the British naturalist Charles Darwin to the Cape between 31 May and 18 June 1836\, and his engagement with another great revolutionary thinker of the nineteenth century\, Karl Marx. MacGarry’s narrative imagines a bet between these two vastly influential men\, which sees them throwing scientific process and logic aside driven by bullish ego and vanity. MacGarry comments: “The key protagonists in this story are two-sided journeymen caught up in endless Sisyphus cycles\, deserving their punishment. They are haunted\, doomed\, and lonely\, but locked into the cycles they set forth for themselves. At some level\, we all feel we are alone on a circuitous journey\, and the film appreciates that there are no real explanations for the big mysteries of life\, only questions”. Award-winning fiction writer Henrietta Rose-Innes (winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the SA PEN Literary Award\, and shortlisted for the 2000 M-Net Literary and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize) is working on a series of texts on the topic of extinctions\, with particular reference to indigenous subspecies (such as the black-maned lion). Taking an autobiographical approach as well as drawing on historical and scientific sources\, she explores the ways these “lost” animals have interacted with people\, the meanings they have been given\, and how their specimens have been displayed. Her Fellowship project examines the complex role that the bodies of animals – and their destruction – play in human affairs\, as evidenced in the history of the Cape from early hunting expeditions to our modern coexistence with animals\, also relating these “lost creatures” to personal themes of loss\, remembrance and mortality.  In 5 Thoughts\, Rose-Innes will present a preliminary sample of wall-mounted texts\, dealing with a constellation of linked topics\, including “lost” animals\, the presentation of animal bodies\, depictions of St Jerome and the Lion\, hominid extinctions\, natural history museums and memory\, as well as and animal/human encounters. Richard Antrobus\, recipient of a Standard Bank Ovation Encore Award at the National Arts Festival 2011 for “excellence and innovation”\,  will present his unique work Delayed Live. The project explores the cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary performance through the use of multi-media\, live-camera feeds\, pre-recorded footage and simultaneous live performance from actors/artists in a live (as well as a delayed-live) performance space. Shifting social\, intellectual and artistic dynamics are considered in an introspective look at the private in-between moments in the lives of dancers/actors\, simultaneously projected as a public\, delayed-live performance by the dancers/actors who are (a)live and present on stage themselves.  Antrobus’ presentation in 5 Thoughts will take the form of a video presentation of a recorded delayed-live discussion with artists\, performers and colleagues around South Africa over the mobile social media application WhatsApp\, transcribed and then re-lived and captured “live” by participants via cellphone camera\, web-cams & video in their original locations. Jared Thorne a graduate of Dartmouth College\, the San Francisco Art Institute and Columbia University\, has been conducting a transcontinental search for Black middle class culture\, with an exploration of how it is articulated in Cape Town. Thorne seeks to challenge hegemonic as well as self-imposed constructs of Black identity. His work centres on issues of race\, class and gender and engages questions of authenticity\, representation and history\, challenging his viewers to redefine their conceptual understanding of modern Black culture. Through photography and audio interviews\, he intends to facilitate extensive visual and verbal dialogue on how identity is created in the global south\, specifically in Cape Town. His work for 5 Thoughts will take the form of large format film photographs alongside excerpts from various interviews. The evening will end with a startling dance performance by Mamela Nyamza (also Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance 2011). Nyamza’s work considers the engendered body\, and the contemporary definition of dance\, through her experimentation around themes of men and (mostly) women’s roles and issues. She asks how dance can be used to gain access to the deepest parts of the body\, emotions\, lightness and fears\, and to elicit higher demands of ourselves. Nyamza will present Okuya Phantsi Kwempulo (The Meal)\, for which she received a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival 2012. Conceptualised\, choreographed and directed by Nyamza\, the work is performed together with Dinah Eppel and Kirsty Ndawo. Okuya Phantsi Kwempulo considers cooking\, eating\, art\, love and sex. “Before a meal can be eaten\, preparation is necessary. The most basic division is between the creator of the meal and those who are being served. This work examines the process in which the eater becomes one with the meal\, though the process of reaching satisfaction can take many forms”\, Nyamza comments. 5 Thoughts will take place on Tuesday 7 August\, 17:00 for 17:30 at Hiddingh Hall. The presentations will follow one after the other. Refreshments will be served. Admission is free and no booking is needed. Images from left to right: Richard Antrobus - Delayed Live; From Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere für Künstler - Hermann Dittrich\, illustrator (1901)\, Mamela Nyamza - Okuya Phantsi Kwempulo photo by Stef de Klerk; Michael MacGarry - As Above\, So Below Diagram 2; Jared Thorne - Untitled. 5 Thoughts Programme is available for download. Audio recording of 5 Thoughts - Fellows Midyear Presentations is available for download. Video recordings of 5 Thoughts [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50833611[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50833614[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50833612[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/5-thoughts-gipca-fellows-mid-term-presentations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120811T193000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120811T213059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120714T084831 LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T111628 UID:987-1344713400-1344720659@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Baxter Dance Film Festival screenings DESCRIPTION:Films produced during the GIPCA Film and Dance workshops\, presented by internationally acclaimed choreographer and filmmaker Jeannette Ginslov\, will be presented at the Baxter Dance Film Festival as a prelude to the screening of a selection of Ginslov's screendance works. Ginslov’s films will include Sandstone\, Karohano\, Freedom\, Sanctum\, CoNCreTe\, Clinton's Story and Autopsy | Eros "la petite mort". Tickets for these screenings are available through Computicket. Image: from Jeannette Ginslov's Autopsy | Eros "la petite mort". About the films: Sandstone was Ginslov’s first choreographic solo work after returning from a two year stay in Europe where she studied at the CNDC\, Angers France and lived in Arhus\, Denmark\, 1985-1987. The work was commissioned by painter Amalie Van Maltitz\, to accompany the launch of her exhibition “The Human Figure in Art”\, at the Genkor Art Gallery\, Rand Afrikaans University\, Johannesburg\, South Africa. This work was banned after its first performance by the Rector of The Rand Afrikaans University where it premiered. It was considered to be in "Bad taste" - Ginslov had danced topless to a speech of the then Nationalist Government Prime Minister PW Botha. News of the banning filtered into the media and Ginslov’s name was launched. Sanctum I & II reveal & amplify the kinaesthetic and emotional struggle of silenced yet complicit women bound by the “cultural practice” of FGM – female genital mutilation. The dance videos attempt to elicit empathetic responses from the viewer to this Human Rights issue and reveal the power of the moving images as experiential and embodied. AffeXity is an interdisciplinary pilot choreographic project examining affect\, dance on screen and cities. A project of embedded choreographies\, in the city of Malmö Sweden\, accessed by Argon Augmented Reality Platform\, via iPads and iPhones. It is a play on both ‘affect city’ and ‘a-fixity’. It is a choreographic exploration with Augmented Reality on mobile devices with 2 intended outcomes: a pilot choreography embedded in urban spaces using geospatial tagging and the groundwork for an initiative in open source choreographies.  The innovation of this project is in concept\, composition\, modes of audience participation\, and technological development. Autopsy/Eros “La Petite Mort” - a personal observation of desire\, beauty\, erotic love and “la petite mort”. Ginslov captures authentic emotions and movement with the medium of Screendance\, an interdisciplinary genre of dance and cinema. Using the somatic system of Alba Emoting that trains the performer to elicit raw authentic emotions\, the focus is on emotional and kinaesthetic amplification. The film emphasizes affect - a viewer’s empathic and visceral response to the performer and camera dancing together in the sumptuous location of the Sofie Badet in Copenhagen. CoNCrEte reveals our ever changing responses to the environment\, relationships and events that result in a display of emotions and/or affordances. CoNCrEte amplifies the emotional and kinaesthetic using a mixture of hand held Sony handycam rehearsal footage as well as footage with Sony HD Z7 camera. It blends close-ups creating de-familiarization\, with wide shots framing the body against a concrete location\, uses post modern dance choreographic s trategies with authentic emotional expression in an attempt to create haptic and affective imagery.  Karohano\, meaning pieces in Sesotho\, is a collaborative dance between three male dancers from Madagascar and South Africa. It is a fusion of video technology and urban dance energy that depicts aspects of African male identity\, political satire and ironic gestures. Karohano was first performed as a live dance work by Inzalo Dance & Theatre Company at The Market Lab Johannesburg\, 29 July 2007. Director\, Jeannette Ginslov\, approached the dance company wanting to create a dance video. The video was then shot in August 2007\, on location in Newtown Johannesburg\, South Africa and edited December 2007 – January 2008. The stage work most recently won the 7th Choreographic Encounters\, 2008 “Dance Africa Dance” competition in Tunis. Freedom: individualisation is a condition of freedom – “the condition of seeing the world as it really is.” Ivor Chipkin (2007). "freedom"\, half interview half dance video\, explores five female South Africans dancers grappling with the notions of freedom\, authenticity and democracy.Half documentary\, half video dance. Five female dancers grapple with the notion of freedom\, authenticity and democracy. They speak and dance this within  a post colonial South Africa. Clinton's Story is a personal story told by the story teller and/or performer in a combination of word\, movement and sound. The dance video amplifies the emotional and kinaesthetic experience of this personal event and aims to engage the viewer empathetically in the experience. The use of close-up only de-familiarizes and creates un-clichéd imagery making the viewer tap into their own image making and imaginative processes to “fill in the gaps” of the visual and aural narrative. Film & Dance video recordings [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50836413[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50836412[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50836411[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50836408[/vimeo] LOCATION:Baxter Road, Cape Town, 7701, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/baxter-dance-film-festival-screenings/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120814 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120914 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120713T105718 LAST-MODIFIED:20121001T091702 UID:994-1344902400-1347580800@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:A Shot to the Arse DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michaelis Galleries\, A Shot to the Arse explores the interrelationship between art and change; how artists process\, comment on\, react to or transform upheaval\, violence\, destruction and everyday experience. Curated by Belinda Blignaut\, it seeks to be a document of the spirit of our time\, taking into account universal cycles of history repeating itself\, and examining what counter culture is to us in 2012 – our emotional responses and cultural equivalents of political opposition running counter to a social mainstream. In keeping with this subversive motivation\, explorations of the theme will see a number of manifestations\, through installation\, sculpture\, collage\, drawings\, gif-art\, sound-works and performance. The main part of the exhibition will primarily be housed in the traditional gallery space – itself a site of contention – in which a unique provocative experience will be created exploring restriction\, decay\, growth and adaptation; from the human to the organic to the machine. However\, in an effort to engage their art in an active conversation with society and the street\, artists such as Steven Cohen will also facilitate a number of city interventions. The exhibition extends further through the production of BISM\, a D.I.Y special limited edition book on sale during the exhibition that contains original signed artwork by various artists. Copies of some of the pages\, or visual slogans\, will be displayed around the city to move the impact of A Shot to the Arse beyond the gallery.  An ongoing document\, Dirty Boots forms an organic on-line archive\, allowing the project to grow should it want to do so. Participating artists are Stuart Bird\, Belinda Blignaut\, Jan-Henri Booyens\, Breinskade\, Kris Canavan\, Steven Cohen\, Jesse Darling\, Simmi Dullay\, Ediblspaceships\, Kendell Geers\, Gabrielle Goliath\, Nadine Hutton\, Jimmy Kipple Sound\, Christian Nerf\, Panga Management\, Daniel Rourke\, Athi-Patra Ruga\, Wilhelm Saayman\, Richardt Strydom\, Linda Stupart\, David Tallis\, James Webb\, Vanskrum\, Konrad Welz\, and Roger Young\, with the exhibition and book introduction by Marlene Bramley. A Shot to the Arse opens at 18:00 on 14 August\, and will run until 4 September 2012. Opening hours are Tues – Fri 11.00 to 16.00\, Sat 10.00 to 13.00 or by appointment. The exhibition is made possible through a grant in aid from the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) to Michaelis Galleries. For further information\, please contact Cara van der Westhuizen\, Tel: 021 480 7170 and cara.vanderwesthuizen@uct.ac.za. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/a-shot-to-the-arse/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120829T200000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120829T220059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120625T125016 LAST-MODIFIED:20120904T120310 UID:993-1346270400-1346277659@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Music in the City: Cecile Verny Quartet DESCRIPTION:The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA)\, the Goethe-Institut\, Institut Français\, the Alliances Françaises network\, and the German and French embassies present the Cécile Verny Quartet’s Keep Some Secrets Within as part of GIPCA’s  Music in the City concert series. For more than twenty years\, the voice of Cécile Verny has been one of the most important in European jazz; uniting her love for the songs of her West African homeland\, gospel\, chansons and the American jazz standards in a most distinctive way. Whether sung in English or French; as an earthy shuffle\, ballade\, chanson\, or rhythmic up-tempo number; all the songs capitalise on Verny's uncanny ability to capture a heartfelt story. The key to her successful career\, however\, has been the collaboration with her award-winning quartet. Featuring Bernd Heitzler (bass)\, Andreas Erchinger (piano) and Obi Jenne (percussion)\, they create timeless jazz\, with influences from world music to pop. Their new program\, Keep Some Secrets Within\, is the formidable outcome of their search for a completely personal sound and rhythmic quality. The Cécile Verny Quartet’s southern African tour is made possible by a partnership between the Goethe-Institut\, Institut Français\, the Alliances Françaises network\, the German and French embassies\, and the Elysée Fund - which promotes partnerships between the cultural institutions of European Union member countries. The tour is presented within the framework of the French Season in South Africa 2012. The performance is free and no booking is necessary. Refreshments will be served. For more information on the Music in the City concert series\, please contact the GIPCA office on +27 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za.  For more information on the Cécile Verny Quartet\, see their website: www.cvq.de.   LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/music-in-the-city-cecile-verny-quartet/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120629 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120728 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120615T133958 LAST-MODIFIED:20120725T102618 UID:966-1340928000-1343433600@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Not My War DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michaelis Galleries\, Not My War is an exhibition of works by significant South African artists reflecting on the country’s involvement in border wars in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola during the 1960’s to 1980’s. The exhibition is curated by David Brits\, and participating artists are Wayne Barker\, Christo Doherty\, Paul Emmanuel\, John Liebenberg\, Jo Ractliffe\, Colin Richards\, Chad Rossouw\, Penny Siopis\, Christopher Swift and Gavin Younge. Exhibition and catalogue text by Natasha Norman. Up until 1994\, almost all able-bodied white South African men were called up for National Service around the year they turned 18. Most were put through rigorous physical and skills training\, and many sent to fight in South Africa’s so-called Border War in Northern South West Africa and Southern Angola. Marking the 25th anniversary of what is now commonly referred to as the Border War’s bloodiest and most decisive battles\, most notably at Cuito Cuanavale\, Not My War looks at how a selection of artists have been impacted by and responded to this critical point in the nation’s history. As far as most of these conscripted young men were concerned\, there was little option but to perform their national duty. One’s call-up could be deferred for a few years if one studied\, but to avoid it meant facing harsh consequences. The options were to object on conscientious or religious grounds and face a six-year jail term\, or flee the country. Since the shift in political power in 1994\, many of the men that fought in Border War have felt themselves to be recast in an insidious light. While many soldiers believed the SADF’s rhetoric that they were fighting in Angola to shield their country from the violent tide of communism\, the war is now widely regarded as an unjust conflict that upheld the racist interests of Apartheid. The Border War has in many ways become forgotten in post-Apartheid South Africa\, as remembering this ‘silent war’ it would mean – both on an institutional and personal level – engaging the struggle to reconcile the propaganda\, trauma\, heroism and racism implicit in a discussion of its nature. In recent years\, however\, a large amount material concerning South Africa’s Border War in Namibia/Angola has burst onto the cultural landscape. Where a decade ago such material was scarce\, in the last five years there has been a considerable surge of novels\, biographies\, documentaries\, films\, theatre\, photography and visual art all dealing with this subject. It would seem that the muzzle on South Africa’s ‘silent war’ – in the cultural sphere at least – has begun to lift. Furthering the resurgence of dialogue around this ‘silent war’\, Not My War will endeavor to engage the complex personal and institutional discourse surrounding this conflict\, as well as highlight the war’s continuing relevance and effect on South African society. The exhibition opening is at 18:00 on 29 June\, and it will run until 27 July. Opening hours are Tuesday – Friday 11:00 to 16:00\, Saturday 10:00 to 13:00 or by appointment. The exhibition is made possible through a grant in aid from the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) to Michaelis Galleries. For further information\, please contact Michaelis Galleries on +27 21 480 7170 or cara.vanderwesthuizen@uct.ac.za. Featured image: Comrade Mother (1994)\, by Penny Siopis. Photograph by Jean Brundrit. LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/not-my-war/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120710T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120710T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120615T124754 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T093618 UID:955-1341939600-1341946859@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Cindy van Acker DESCRIPTION:Geneva-based choreographer Cindy Van Acker will be touring Southern African for the first time\, and will present a performance-lecture and film screening as part of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creaitive Arts (GIPCA) Great Texts/Big Questions series on 10 July 2012. The tour is presented by Pro Helvetia Johannesburg. Fractie\, performed by Van Acker and Tamara Bacci\, will be followed by the screening of two dance films and a short lecture. The films\, based on the solos Obvie and Obtus\, focus on a sober\, intimate\, virtuosic exploration of body movement\, through a slow interaction with gravity. Fractie comprises five studies tackling the triangular relationship between sound\, movement and rhythm; exploring how the stimulation of the senses can differ depending on the place given to those elements. Each study is designated a specific corporal state\, a proper soundtrack and composer\, a length and a particular area. Considering the organic flow of these elements in composition\, both as a study and in performance\, value is placed on study as the starting point as much as the finishing one. “Van Acker’s work will appeal to those interested in the visual arts\, as well as dance and performance. Within the Great Texts/Big Questions series\, this is an opportunity to watch unique and innovative\, and engage directly with the artist\,” commented GIPCA Director\, Jay Pather. Trained in classical ballet\, Cindy Van Acker first worked in the Flanders Royal Ballet\, Belgium. After joining Geneva’s Grand Theatre\, she began creating her own pieces in 1994\, and launched into an international career with Corps 00:00 at the Geneva ADC in 2002. After the six solos\, in 2011\, Van Acker created a group piece for 6 dancers called Diffraction. Her choreographic scripting\, which allies aesthetic gravity\, minimalist movement\, precise composition and electronic music\, allows her to examine the connections between body and spirit\, sound and rhythm with almost scientific precision. The event is free\, and no booking is necessary. Refreshments will be served from 17h00. For more information\, please contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Cindy Van Acker audio recording available for download LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-cindy-van-acker/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120716 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120525T094444 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T094558 UID:935-1342051200-1342396800@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:AFTA Conference 2012: Querying Africa DESCRIPTION:The UCT Drama Department\, together with the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA)\, will be hosting the 2012 annual African Theatre Association International Conference from 12-15 July on Hiddingh Campus. The conference will be convened by Mwenya Kabwe and Alude Mahali\, with Associate Professors Mark Fleishman and Jay Pather. The conference theme\, Querying Africa:  Dis-ease\, Metamorphosis and Unconventionality in African Theatre and Performance\, interrogates the transformations\, adaptations\, shifts in form and practice\, 'infection' of social order\, the mutation of content and the challenges of definition in contemporary African Theatre and Performance.  This theme is supported by a series of sub themes that invite researchers to provoke\, debate\, contest\, explore and celebrate the contradictions\, appropriations\, re-mixes and uncomfortable attachments to ways of thinking and practicing African theatre and performance. This conference offers a space for conversations between academics and practitioners that interrogate current practice in African theatre and performance through a wide range of forms including papers\, panel discussions\, performances\, innovation in presentation\, exhibitions\, screenings\, media and associated arts\, public mediated happenings and events in the city.   The AFTA conference programme is available for download. AFTA audio recording from Thursday 12 July 2012 is available for download. AFTA audio recording from Friday 13 July 2012 is available for download. AFTA audio recording from Sunday 15 July 2012 is available for download. For conference details and registration\, please visit the UCT Conference Management Centre website.     LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/afta-conference-2012-querying-africa/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120824 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120827 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120523T144852 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T103350 UID:925-1345766400-1346025600@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Directors & Directing: Playwrights DESCRIPTION:Following the popularity of last year’s Directors and Directing symposium\, GIPCA acknowledges the need for the existence of such a forum as an annual event: a space for theorists\, practitioners and students of the theatre to come together and talk about key issues facing those who work in or watch or write about the theatre. This year\, the focus is on Playwrights and Writing for the Theatre. Playwrights\, directors\, critics and actors will converge from various parts of the country to address some of the key features of these debates. The symposium goes behind the scenes and gets to the core of theatrical performance: the presence (or absence) of the written text. The scarcity of playwrights writing for the stage is legend in contemporary South African theatre\, in stark contrast to the perception of the potential for innumerable stories waiting to be told. In a country of multiple experiences\, is there room for the singular voice of the playwright? On the other hand\, is this making way for an indulgence of multiple voices as opposed to the authority and craft of the singular playwright? Athol Fugard recently said\, ”The truth is that the new South Africa needs committed playwrights who are prepared to bear witness to what is going on every bit as urgently as the old ones did”. Directors and Directing: Playwrights will include theatre visits\, performances\, play readings and informal talks\, but primarily will comprise a symposium with a variety of panels. Addresses will be made by acclaimed playwrights and directors: esteemed writer Dr Sindiwe Magona\, the Baxter Theatre’s Lara Foot\, the provocative and always topical Mike van Graan\, Malcolm Purkey from the Market Theatre and highly respected director James Ngcobo. Theatre visits\, which form an integral part of the conference\, include Alexandre Marine’s adaptation of JM Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians at the Baxter Theatre Centre\, Emerging Theatre Director Thando Doni's Utopia at Theatre Arts Admin Collective\, Magnet Theatre Director Mark Fleishman's Kragbox at Artscape\, and playreadings by Megan Furniss and Louis Viljoen. The conference comprises several themed panels in which writers and directors discuss their different approaches to shaping performance with and without text. Is the rise of genres such as visual performance and workshop theatre a threat to the written text or do they challenge the playwright’s innovation and craft? Inside the darkened theatre\, one may well ask:  Whose text trumps whose? Writer\, director\, designer\, producer\, audience or critic? Writers who will be talking about their work include Juliet Jenkin (The Boy Who Fell From The Roof); Nicholas Spagnoletti (London Road)\, Genna Gardini and UCT’s Sabata Sesiu. A panel based on the relationship between writers and directors includes\, Sanjin Muftic and Amy Jephta\, while Jacqueline Dommisse talks about her role in directing the work of Peter Hayes. Preceded by an innovative “performed paper” by rising stars Kim Kerfoot and Jason Potgieter\, a special panel devoted to ideas around adaptations\, ownership and collaborative writing will feature writers Ingrid Wylde and Karen Jeynes\, and Dr Peter Churu from the University of Zimbabwe. A crucial shift in the symposium proceedings considers the move towards alternate texts. UCT’s Head of Drama and Magnet Theatre Director\, Professor Mark Fleishman\, and acclaimed theatre innovators Brett Bailey and Mandla Mbothwe\, lead this discussion. This will be preceded by a special visit to the final rehearsal of Brett Bailey’s superbly evocative medEia before its extensive European tour. The discussions will culminate in a panel of innovative theatre makers that talk to new trends of theatre making and text\, followed by Richard Antrobus' critically acclaimed Stilted\, performed with Tristan Jacobs. TICKETS Tickets will be available through Computicket. Please note that tickets are sold under two venues - the Baxter Theatre Centre (Friday 24 August) and Hiddingh Hall (Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 August). Three day passes are sold as 'Related Packages' by Computicket. Adults: Full event (24-26 August) - R175. This includes all talks and performances\, the opening function\, lunches and light suppers. Friday 24 August - R100 Saturday 25 August - R75 Sunday 26 August - R50 Students: Full event (24-26 August) - R140. This includes all talks and performances\, the opening function\, lunches and light suppers. Friday 24 August - R80 Saturday 25 August - R60 Sunday 26 August - R40 For more information\, contact the GIPCA office on fin-gipca@uct.ac.za / +27 21 480 7156. Additional notes: In his opening speech\, chair for the Naledi Awards\, Dali Tambo proclaimed that “Literature is the cornerstone of narrative theatre and every cultural renaissance or theatrical renaissance in history has begun with an explosion of literary zeal. South African playwrights are the Griots of our age”\, thereby returning the gaze once more on the playwright and it follows\, the scarcity of the play text in contemporary South African theatre. Even further\, several recent provocations have heralded a new wave of ideas around the historic and contemporary role of the playwright. Zakes Mda’s swipe at what he saw as opportunistic social engineering referred to a period when political plays were uppermost in South African theatrical production “Theatre for Resistance was highly exportable\, and it became the ambition of most playwrights to have a play at the Market\, and then of course in Europe and America. Writers wrote purely for export\, and designed their plays in a manner which they thought would be acceptable to overseas audiences.” Athol Fugard recently threw another gauntlet when he said\, ”The truth is that the new South Africa needs committed playwrights who are prepared to bear witness to what is going on every bit as urgently as the old ones did\,” an area of concern that Mda later added his voice to. Fugard added\, "With so many young playwrights\, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts." In response\, an anonymous blogger shot back “ I suppose young playwrights aren't sure how to be overtly political. Most people under 30 I know have taken drugs so they're hardly going to be condemning drug abuse outright. ..The trouble is - we grew up with the dark side of the left (even if no one talks about it) but we still think political equals ideal - so it's easier to comment on pop culture than launch into a radical polemic.” The final Directors and Directing: Playwrights programme is available for download. Audio recording of Friday 24 August (Directors & Directing keynote address) available for download. Audio recording of Saturday 25 August\, (Panel 1 - Writers) available for download. Audio recording of Saturday 25 August\, (Panel 2 - Directors and Writers) available for download. Audio recording of Saturday 25 August\, (Panel 3 - Whose voice is it anyway?) available for download. Audio recording of Saturday 25 August\, (Keynote addresses) available for download. Audio recording of Saturday 25 August\, (Panel 4 - New Directions) available for download. Audio Recording of Sunday 26 August\, (Playreadings - Drive with me by Megan Furniss) available for download. Audio Recording of Sunday 26 August\, (Closing Comments) available for download. Video recording of Direcrots & Directing: Playwrights [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65632704[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65632705[/vimeo]       LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/directors-and-directing-paywrights/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120718 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120723 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120518T092205 LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T111640 UID:932-1342569600-1343001600@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Film & Dance Workshops DESCRIPTION:Following the groundbreaking Film and Dance conference in August 2011\, which probed this rising new art form\, the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) presents a Film and Dance workshop series with internationally acclaimed choreographer and filmmaker Jeannette Ginslov on Hiddingh Campus from 18-22 July. The workshops are free and a maximum of 25 participants can be accommodated. Participants will be divided into teams of 5-6; each team will create a short film which will be screened on 11 August at the Baxter Dance Film Festival. The application deadline is 30 May 2012. For more details\,contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 / fin-gipca@uct.ac.za Download the Film and Dance workshop schedule and application form. About Jeannette Ginslov: Jeannette Ginslov is a specialist in Dance on Screen - a filmmaker\, producer and facilitator for screen and the internet. She is Artistic Director of Walking Gusto Productions\, producer of MoveStream\, Facilitator for Montage Media Facilitations and Co-Ordinator for 60secondsdance.dk. Ginslov facilitates screendance workshops internationally and directs\, shoots and edits her own screendance works that centre around Affect\, the moving body and its digital materiality. She holds a MA in Choreography from Rhodes University\, and a MSc in Media Art & Imaging – Screendance from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design\, University of Dundee\, Scotland. Most recently she has been Artist in Residence at MEDEA\, Malmö University\, in Sweden\, collaborating with Susan Kozel on the augmented reality screendance work AffeXity. Her most recent dance video\, commissioned by the Danish Dance Theatre\, Autopsy | Eros  “la petite mort”\, has been screened internationally at eight different screendance festivals. In April this year she was in Kigali\, Rwanda facilitating screendance workshops at the Ishyo Arts Centre and has just returned from Hollywood\, California where she conducted MoveStream interviews with screendance makers for Dance Camera West. For examples of her work\, visit http://jeannetteginslov.com/ or http://www.youtube.com/user/WalkingGusto Why learn about screendance? The genre of screendance has grown phenomenally across the globe in the last decade. Dance practitioners are realising that this interdisciplinary medium - a cross-over of video\, video art and dance - is not only vital to the survival of their practice but that it is also a recognised art form. Dance practitioners (be they dancers\, choreographers or producers) aware of the power of the digital materialization of the moving body\, are turning to this medium for the production of dance in a new medium\, choreographic research\, documentation\, archives and promotion. The power of the internet provides an alternate platform for dance makers to screen\, share and promote their work.  Increasingly this outlet is also being used as a social choreographic tool\, encouraging creative networked outcomes and new takes on the medium of screendance works. Film & Dance video recordings [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50836413[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50836412[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50836411[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/50836408[/vimeo]     LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/film-dance-workshops/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120512T110000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120520T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120506T201550 LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T113004 UID:914-1336820400-1337540459@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:The Exuberance Project Exhibition DESCRIPTION:On Saturday evening 12 May from 6.30pm\, audiences will be treated to a visual at feast with the opening of the Exuberance Project Exhibition at the Mandela Rhodes Gallery\, as well as a walkabout around the city in an innovative project\, The Callings\, featuring projections of art work on buildings\, sound installations and performances. Curated by Rael Salley\, the Exuberance Project Exhibition is presented in association with Michaelis Galleries. The Center for Historical Reenactments (Kemang Wa-Lehulere\, Donna Kukama\, Sanele Manqele\, Gabi Ngcobo and Jabu Pereira) presents an installation work entitled Not a Storm in a Teacup After All\, based on a residency titled Fr(agile) at the Alf Kumalo Musuem in March 2012. MTN New Contemporaries finalist and Sasol New Signatures Winner Mohau Modisakeng - a sculptor with recourse to performance\, video and photography as the concept requires – presents Untitled (Triptych)\, in which the artist himself embodies the need for confrontation to resolve differences. Triggered by the reaction to his 2010 exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery\, Gae Lebowa\, for which he was compelled to research this subject\, photographer George Tebogo Mahashe’s Dithugula tša Malefokane: Seeing other people's stories responds to the concerns raised by his awareness of the concept of poverty porn within contemporary photographic practices\, and its relations to 1930s ethnographic photography. Zanele Muholi\, who will present EyeMe\, also co-facilitates the Ikhaya (Home) as part of the Photo XP community project with Lindeka Qampi\, featuring a collection of 60 hours of photographic memories that were taken in different areas of Khayelitsha by seven women\, each of the women created a body of work around a specific aspect of life in their immediate environment. Participating artists - all of them black lesbians between 21 and 31 years of age\, from various places within and outside of Khayelitsha - are Gcobisa Nogova\, Hlomela Msesele\, Pearl Mali\, Phato Mkosana\, Phumeza Nkoanyane\, Ntombozuko ‘Nzura’ Ndlwana and Velisa Jara.  Fragments of Tahrir\, a video installation curated by Nicole Sarmiento with participating artists Justin Davy\, Aryan Kaganof\, Jasmina Metwaly\, Philip Rizk and Dylan Valley also forms part of the Exuberance Project Exhibition. Using the work of interdisciplinary video and performance artists\, the video works touch on the ongoing uprisings across what has been called ‘North Africa’\, with visual and aural elements used to explore shreds\, fragments\, dissonances and imaginaries; rather than overarching narratives. The Callings\, a walking tour around key sites in the centre of the city\, including projections on walls of historic sites around Church Square\, sound installations and performances\, is devised by Memory Biwa\, Nicole Sarmiento and Tazneem Wentzel in collaboration with with Jethro Louw\, Tracey Rose\, Weaam Williams\, Toni Stuart\, Mawande Zenzile\, Justin Davy\, Kyle Shepherd\, Lucelle Campbell\, Dylan Valley\, Sara Gouveia\, Dani Swai\, Ala Hourani\, Monwabisi Xhakwe and Bradley van Sitters. The walking tour   will start at Mandela Rhodes Place at 19h00 on Saturday 12 May and is described by the curators as follows: Traveling by taxi around the city\, I see them\, I hear them calling me. The callings make sense when I find out what has actually happened in a specific place. Sometimes after reading about a place of torture\, I go to the city and walk to find the exact coordinates of the place. In this performative\, visual\, aural/oral installation and site-specific intervention\, we walk spaces of the city of Cape Town. We walk through spectral landscapes that recall a past as much passed\, as lived in the present. We bypass memorialised sites that form part of the matrix of ‘heritage’ tourism towards sites that form part of the everyday of urban street traffic\, yet remain unmarked and silent(ced); imagining what the people looked like\, what they wore\, what they sounded like\, and their feelings. The Exuberance Project Exhibition will be open daily from 11am - 7pm\, from 13 - 20 May at Mandela Rhodes Gallery. For further information on the exhibition\, please contact Michaelis Galleries on +27 21 480 7170 / cara.vanderwesthuizen@uct.ac.za The Exuberance Project aims to foster new views and fresh understandings of creativity in contemporary Africa\, through consideration and celebration of what is extremely good\, effusive and uninhibitedly enthusiastic. A particular application within the creative context of Southern Africa explores aesthetic capacities\, as they appear in specific instances of the visual\, textual\, sound\, performance\, digital and virtual arts. Convened by Raél Jero Salley and Jay Pather; and presented by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA)\, this weekend event will consist of a symposium\, performances\, exhibitions\, panel discussions and film screenings at Hiddingh Hall\, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus\, Orange Street\, Cape Town and surroundings from 11 – 13 May 2012. The Exuberance Project updated programme is available for download. For more information\, contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156 / fin-gipca@uct.ac.za. Bookings and ticket sales through Computicket. The Exuberance Project video recordings [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45575044[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45572304[/vimeo] LOCATION:Corner of Wale Street and St george's Mall, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/the-exuberance-project-exhibition/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121017T200000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121017T213059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120422T094904 LAST-MODIFIED:20121111T203357 UID:788-1350504000-1350509459@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Music in the City - Justin Krawitz DESCRIPTION:Following appearances at venues and festivals in several parts of Europe this year\, acclaimed South African pianist Justin Krawitz will present a program of contemporary piano music at Hiddingh Hall\, as part of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts’ Music in the City series. With his work as a 2011 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow as a base\, this concert presents a fascinating program of piano works\, featuring both local and international composers\, and drawing significantly on Krawitz’s experience working with living composers. Krawitz performs two works by South African composers\, opening with Arnold Van Wyk’s Tristia – a seldom-heard gem of South African piano music; followed by Hendrik Hofmeyr’s new Piano Sonata\, written for Krawtiz on commission by the South African Music Rights Organisation. Krawitz premiered Hofmeyr’s work earlier this year as part of the public art festival Infecting the City\, but this Music in the City concert features the first performance of the work in a formal concert setting. In a sense\, these composers represent opposite poles of composition in South Africa: Van Wyk (1916-1983) is widely considered the father of South African classical music\, while Hofmeyr (b.1957) is among the younger generation of composers and is active on the contemporary musical scene. The concert will conclude with a performance of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Karel Husa’s Piano Sonata No.1. Born in Prague in 1921\, Husa boasts an illustrious career which led him first to Paris and then on to the United States where he has lived since 1954. Krawitz worked with him on his Piano Sonata No.1 at his home in North Carolina in 2010\, before going on to record the work for Czech Radio. The recording that emerged was enthusiastically endorsed by the composer and has been broadcast Europe-wide under the program Euradio. Justin Krawitz is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town where he lectures in Piano and Piano Pedagogy. He has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, Luther College in Iowa and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. Krawitz is known for his highly considered artistic collaborations that lend his performances of new and little-known repertoire a distinct sense of authority. Admission in free and light refreshments will be served. Photo by Sydelle Willow Smith (Infecting the City 2012). LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/music-in-the-city-justin-krawitz/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120511 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120514 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120411T093901 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T113917 UID:703-1336694400-1336953600@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:The Exuberance Project DESCRIPTION:The Exuberance Project 11-13 May 2012\, UCT Hiddingh Campus Symposium | Performances | Exhibitions | Film screenings Convened by Raél Jero Salley and Jay Pather; presented by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) as part of the UCT Africa Month celebrations. The Exuberance Project will investigate what is abundant\, enthusiastic\, overflowing\, unrestrained and joyful in contemporary creative and performing arts of Africa. Africa has long been described by critics as being perched on a threshold - between inadequacy and potential\, between something and nothingness. The vast complexity of a continent is thereby reduced\, frozen by clichéd metaphors and paradoxical summations. Such large\, elusive and unhappy representations work to shape individual imaginaries and bound collective sensibilities. That is to say\, if African creative practices have long been framed by fractured identifications\, shadowed by humiliation\, or overexposed as hyper-visible depravity\, how can creative people both acknowledge legacies of oppression and produce without recapitulating pathologies? Indeed\, critics and artists have\, in diverse and particular ways\, responded to pessimistic representations that continually appear in intellectual\, political and aesthetic realms. The Exuberance Project points to a welcome turnaround in the enactment of all that emerges from the African continent. Embracing themes that shift from lack to abundance\, from Afro-pessimism to exuberance\, from myths of a dark and brooding continent to vibrant\, dynamic realism\, The Exuberance Projectcomprises a symposium\, panel discussions\, performances\, exhibitions and film screenings. Salley explains:  “Exuberance is an abounding\, ebullient\, effervescent emotion. But it is also a shining\, flickering\, fragile state”. He notes that despair has found more sympathy with artists and scholars than has joy\, so the world Africans occupy is seen and described by a view that is relentlessly grim. Africa and its people fare poorly in representations from global media\, academic scholarship\, and creative production. The Exuberance Project hopes to encourage different views\, generate new energy and opportunities\, while alerting us all to change and possibility. “The Exuberance Project endeavors to enchant its public so we can make better sense of the complex effervescence of Southern Africa’s places and spaces\, ideas and passions.” Salley commented. The weekend long conference is packed with speakers from various parts of the country\, performances\, exhibitions and film screenings. Please consult website for daily updates. For more information on the award-winning performances\, speakers\, exhibitions and film screenings featured at The Exuberance Project\, visit the News section of this website. The Exuberance Project Exhibition at Mandela Rhodes Gallery will be open Sunday 13 May through Sunday 20 May. TICKETS Adults: R150 - includes all sessions\, performances and film screenings\, the opening cocktail function and teas\, transport to the Fugard Theatre\, exhibition opening\, walking tour and party. R100 – Friday 11 May R50 – Saturday 12 May R50 – Sunday 13 May Students: R100 - includes all sessions\, performances and film screenings\, the opening cocktail function and teas\, transport to the Fugard Theatre\, exhibition opening\, walking tour and party. R75 – Friday 11 May R30 – Saturday 12 May R30 – Sunday 13 May Bookings and ticket sales through Computicket. Exuberance Project full programme is available for download. Friday 11 May (Official Opening and addresses) audio recording is available for download. Saturday 12 May (Panel 1) audio recording is available for download. Saturday 12 May (Panel 2) audio recording is available for download. Saturday 12 May (Panel 3) audio recording is available for download. Sunday 13 May (Panel 4) audio recording is available for download. Sunday 13 May (closing comments) audio recording is available for download. The Exuberance Project video recordings  [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45384581[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45384583[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45572303[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45575043[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45572301[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45572295[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45384584[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45384585[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45572296[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45575044[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45572304[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45575042[/vimeo]       LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001 URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/the-exuberance-project/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120501T200000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120506T210059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120411T081652 LAST-MODIFIED:20120508T202625 UID:771-1335902400-1336338059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Fragile by Nicola Elliott DESCRIPTION:Capetonian Choreographer Nicola Eilliott will present the first work of 2012\, created by recipients of the Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary\, which is presented by the Theatre Arts Admin Collective\, GIPCA and the Baxter Theatre Centre\, and supported by the Distell Foundation. Inspired by Claudio Stellato’s L’Autre\, Fragile explores performer presence and the performance of the moment. Elliott will combine theatre and dance\, realism and abstraction into philosophical collage. Through a series of carefully crafted (and carefully jumbled) non-literal choreographic portraits\, audience members will negotiate the boundaries of beauty\, ugliness\, stark form\, and seemingly unpredictable chaos that make up complex personality and its performance. Working for the first time with award-winning theatre practitioner Jori Snell\, Elliott’s Fragile promises its audience a unique\, exciting and savagely precarious theatrical experience. Elliott grew up in Cape Town and in 2010 received a Master’s Degree in Drama from Rhodes University in Grahamstown. She has taught at the Rhodes Drama Department\, choreographed and performed for the First Physical Theatre Company and presented works in theatre and dance annually at festivals around the country. In 2006\, she received the Jonathan Marks Prize for Choreography; in 2010\, Spyt\, which featured her choreography\, won an Anglo-Gold Ashanti Fyngoud prize for Best Production at Aardklop; Loss and Having (which she co-produced and co-choreographed) won a 2011 Standard Bank Ovation Award for Excellence\, and she was recently nominated for a KykNet Fiesta award for Proximity Loss and Having. Her dance theatre work frequently investigates performer presence\, combining naturalism and abstraction into philosophical collage. She views choreography not as (merely) a sequence of steps or moves but rather as a means of investigating   ideas and form through the artistic expression of the body. Designed by Illka Louw; featuring Jori Snell\, Lucy Kruger and Thabiso Pule; Fragile will run at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective (cnr Wesley and Milton Streets\, Observatory) from 1 to 6 May 2012 at 8 pm. Tickets are R40 and bookings can be made through Theatre Arts Admin Collective: 021 447 3683 / artsadmin@mweb.co.za.   LOCATION:Cnr Wesley and Milton Streets, Observatory, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/fragile-by-nicola-elliott/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120410T150153 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T093133 UID:697-1334856600-1334862059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Pierre de Vos DESCRIPTION:Leading political commentator\, writer and academic Professor Pierre de Vos presents a lecture entitled “'Taking risks\, taking responsibility': on whiteness and full citizenship under the South African Constitution".Professor De Vos's talk will engage with an article published by Rhodes University philosopher Samantha Vice entitled "How do I live in this Strange Place"\, in which she reflects critically and sensitively on what it is to be white in a country like South Africa and how white people should live in this country - the "strange place" of her title. The lecture will explore ways in which South Africans can engage in an ethically responsible manner with the many complex issues faced by the country without trying to erase the past and the effects of that past that lingers still. Vice's approach of working on the self to become a better person that feels appropriate shame for being white and being part of a system that has benefitted one\, and of turning away from an engagement with the political reality of South Africa\, is both problematic and inadequate\, argues De Vos. Relying on the concept of active citizenship\, this public lecture will pose questions about the responsibility of white South Africans in particular to become ethically attuned citizens engaged in the difficult work of building a better society. Pierre de Vos \, a widely respected authority in his field\, holds the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town\, where he teaches Constitutional Law. He has published widely in academic journals on a wide range of topics including affirmative action and equality\, sexual orientation discrimination and the enforcement of social and economic rights. He writes a regular and widely read Blog called Constitutionally Speaking and is the chairperson of the Board of the Aids Legal Network\, an NGO promoting a human rights approach to dealing with HIV and Aids. Refreshments served from 5pm\, lecture commences at 5.30pm. Pierre de Vos audio recording available for download. Pierre de Vos recording [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65069036[/vimeo]   LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001 URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-pierre-de-vos/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120503T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120503T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120410T110234 LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T095759 UID:781-1336066200-1336071659@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Azila Reisenberger DESCRIPTION:The Bible as Literature Generally perceived as sacred text\, The Bible was accepted by the audiences for whom it was made as revelation of God’s ‘Word’. The question arises\, then\, whether it can be explained through categories developed for the understanding of such fundamentally secular\, individual\, and aesthetic enterprises; such as that of later Western literature? The lecture focuses on the Bible as a ‘Great (Literary) Text’ rather than religious scripture\, and discusses the development and evolution of the ‘Text’ over a millennia - from the invention of the alphabet to what is known as ‘the Canon’. It acknowledges that scholars and ‘believers’ may not always agree on the source of the power which The Book exerts on the Extra Biblical World; but they both agree that reading the Bible in Translation is ‘like kissing a bride through a veil’. Dr Azila Talit Reisenberger is the Head of the Hebrew in the School of Languages and Literature at the University of Cape Town. A champion of women’s rights – in various women’s organisations and in the media – she teaches and publishes in the field of Bible and Hebrew literature\, with a focus on gender issues and the South African experience. In addition to numerous academic papers and books\, she has published seven volumes of poetry and short stories in Hebrew and in English. The first edition of her recent English novel\, ‘The Other Booker Prize’\, has sold out and two of her plays have been staged. Since 1989\, she has served as spiritual leader (Rabbi) of the Jewish Progressive Community in East London. Azila Reisenberger audio recording available for download. Azila Reisenberger video recordings [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/43461638[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/43461637[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/43461634[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/43461633[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-azila-reisenberger/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120510T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120510T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120410T105853 LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T091227 UID:778-1336671000-1336676459@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Duncan Brown DESCRIPTION:Haunted by Waters Taking as its starting point the last line of Norman Maclean’s famous novella\, A river runs through it\, “I am haunted by waters”\, Professor Duncan Brown's public lecture considers some aspects of the ways in which human identities are mediated by\, and imbricated with\, natural environments and the plant and animal species they support. Professor Brown draws on research for a book he is in the process of completing\, called Are Trout South African? These fish\, introduced to South Africa in the late nineteenth century\, and whose continued existence in the country has been heatedly debated\, form the focus of the work. In his study of the habitats\, history\, and pursuit of trout; Brown engages with the universal notions of indigeneity\, alienness and belonging; in South Africa and beyond. These questions - often argued in scientific-biological terms - are considered from the perspective of the human-social-symbolic\, in what promises to be a thought-provoking  and highly relevant interrogation of a range of  perspectives on what it is to ‘belong’. Professor Duncan Brown is Dean of the Arts Faculty at the University of the Western Cape. He has published widely in the field of South African literary and cultural studies\, and his books include Voicing the Text: South African Oral Poetry and Performance (1998)\, Oral Literature and Performance in Southern Africa (1999)\, To Speak of this Land: Identity and Belonging in South Africa and Beyond  (2006) and Religion and Spirituality in South Africa: New Perspectives (2009). He is also a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Duncan Brown audio recording available for download. Duncan Brown video recoding [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45384580[/vimeo]   LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-duncan-brown/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120412T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120412T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120323T133736 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T092825 UID:548-1334251800-1334257259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Daya Reddy DESCRIPTION:G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology: what should we make of it today? A Mathematician’s Apology is an essay published in 1940 by G.H. Hardy (1877 – 1947)\, a giant of British and world mathematics in the earlier part of the 20th century. In this work Hardy addresses a range of topics that include justifications for the study of mathematics; its aesthetic qualities; notions of usefulness; and the relationship between age and creative powers. While Hardy provides in this essay a sense of the workings of the mathematical mind\, some of his views\, often expressed in trenchant terms\, have attracted criticism\, while others are regarded as outmoded. Professor Reddy’s lecture will explore aspects of Hardy’s essay by providing some historical context\, and by re-examining its key elements from a modern perspective. Daya Reddy holds the South African Research Chair in Computational Mechanics. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics\, Director of the Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics\, and former Dean of the Faculty of Science\, UCT.  Professor Reddy has published widely on the modelling of complex material behaviour and associated mathematical and computational issues. He is a member or fellow of various academies\, national and international. Refreshments served from 5 pm\, lecture commences at 5.30 pm. Daya Reddy audio recording available for download. Daya Reddy video recording [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65229597[/vimeo]   LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001 URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-daya-reddy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120402T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120402T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120323T121256 LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T093600 UID:543-1333387800-1333393259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Griselda Pollock DESCRIPTION:Jewish German artist Charlotte Salomon created a vast project of visual narrativity\, musicality and textuality in isolation between 1941 and 1942.  At the time Salomon was seeking temporary refuge from Nazi Germany in France. When France fell\, she was sent to a concentration camp where she died in 1943. Initially recognized as a work of modern art in its first exhibition in 1961 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam\, Salomon's artwork was rapidly misrepresented as a diary in pictures\, as an autobiographical narrative\, and as a Holocaust testimony.  None of this is entirely inappropriate. While the artist was indeed persecuted and murdered under Nazism\, such approaches have denied to the work recognition of its startling formal inventiveness and its complexity. The work draws on an array of avant-garde resources as much as popular music and contemporary cinema as it moved from silent to talkie\, from black and white to colour.  Salomon's formal and psychological processes of elaboration and transformation transgress the boundaries between public and private\, between the book and the painting\, between the visual and acoustic.  Salomon’s work of inventing memories through painting spaces and places for them\, opening thresholds between the living and the dead caught in a terrifying net of terror after 1940\, address questions about life and death for three generations of women. It also asks profound questions of subjectivity and its historical and gendered conditions which provide the ground for elaborating one of the most remarkable art-texts that emerged out of the modernism and political turmoil of the 1930s. In her lecture Professor Pollock offers a series of readings of Salomon's work through encounters with the artists and intellectuals whose company Life? or Theatre? demands in order to find its place in history and render it legible to us now. Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis\, Theory and History at the University of Leeds.  She is a world-renowned scholar of post-colonial feminist studies in the visual arts\, best known for her theoretical and methodological innovation\, combined with deeply engaged readings of historical and contemporary art\, film and cultural theory. Amongst her major publications are (with Roszika Parker) Old Mistresses; Women\, Art and Ideology (Routledge & Kegan Paul\, 1981)\, Vision and Difference: Femininity\, Feminism\, and Histories of Art  (Routledge\,1987)\, Avant-Garde Gambits: Gender and the Colour of Art History (Thames and Hudson\, 1993) and Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time\, Space and the Archive (Routledge\, 2007). Important recent edited volumes include; with Antony Bryant Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image (I.B.Tauris\, 2010)\, with Catherine de Zegher Bracha L. Ettinger: Art as Compassion (ASA Publishers\, 2011) and with Max Silverman Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Berghahn Books\, 2011). Pollock is also an invited contributor to the Documenta 13 Notebook Series with her Allo-thanatography or Allo-auto-biography: A few thoughts on one painting in Charlotte Salomon's Leben? oder Theater? 1941-42. Presented in association with the Centre for Curating the Archive\, UCT. Refreshments served from 5pm\, lecture commences at 5.30pm Griselda Pollock audio recording available for download. Griselda Pollock video recording [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44790998[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001 URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-griselda-pollock/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120320T200000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120320T220059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120304T120413 LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T110744 UID:538-1332273600-1332280859@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Music in the City: Nicky Schrire plus 3 DESCRIPTION:The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) 2012 Music in the City concert series launches with Nicky Schrire Plus 3 on Tuesday 20 March at 20:00 in the at Hiddingh Hall. Lauded for her fresh and original approach to music\, Nicky Schrire is a vocalist\, composer and arranger whose adventurous spirit reflects her international upbringing. London-born\, South African-raised and now based in NYC\, Schrire honed her skills at the South African College of Music (UCT) and the Manhattan School of Music.  She has performed with Joseph C. Phillips’ Numinous\, Abdullah Ibrahim’s Cape Town Jazz Orchestra\, Sibongile Khumalo\, Arno Carstens\, and most recently lent her voice to Brian Adler’s Helium Project\, which also features artists such as Kate McGarry and Ben Monder. Her debut album Freedom Flight will be released this year. Schrire will be joined for this Music in the City concert by three of South Africa’s finest jazz luminaries: Andrew Lilley (piano)\, Charles Lazar (bass)\, and Heinrich Goosen (drums). The quartet\, led by Schrire\, will be performing music from the American Songbook (Rodgers\, Hammerstein\, Gershwin) as well as songs from the South African musical repertoire (Winston Mankunku\, Victor Ntoni). Known for her inventive and impressive arranging skills\, Schrire manages to preserve the beauty and lyrical messages of songs dating as far back as the 1920’s while infusing them with new life and revived wit. Nicky Schrire video recording [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/43528209[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001 URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/music-in-the-city-nicky-schrire-plus-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120315T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120315T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120301T115011 LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T093731 UID:530-1331832600-1331838059@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Neo Muyanga DESCRIPTION:Using animated designs and selections of music\, acclaimed musician Neo Muyunga will discuss the genesis of The Flower of Shembe\, the conceptual basis for it as well as the considerations of mounting the work inside one of our country’s most contested terrains – the Iziko South African National Gallery. The Flower of Shembe is an operetta about faith and destiny\, based on the story of myths surrounding Isaiah Shembe. Shembe founded the New Nazareth African Church (iBandla la maNazaretha) at the beginning of the 20th century\, and became regarded by many followers as God-made-flesh. He also had detractors\, however\, who saw him variously as a radical revolutionary\, a charlatan and/or a trickster-magician. In this new fictional operetta\, Muyanga sets out to reflect the epic perils such a journey might entail. In doing so\, he also speculates on what manner of trials and tribulations a new incarnation of Shembe might have to live before they were able to come to terms with their own destiny. Muyanga was born in Soweto\, into a long line of traditional composers and makers of the timbila (a Mozambican tuned wood percussion instrument). He studied the Italian madrigal tradition with choral maestro\, Piero Poclen\, in Trieste\, Italy. Neo composes works for choir\, chamber and large ensemble and continues to tour widely as a solo performer and as a member of Blk Sonshine. Most recently\, his Memory of How It Feels was performed at the Baxter Theatre. He has also composed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Handspring Puppet Company\, and is co-curator of the Pan African Space Station (PASS) with Ntone Edjabe. Refreshments served from 5 pm\, lecture commences at 5.30 pm. Neo Muyanga audio recording available for download.  Neo Muyanga video recording [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44790999[/vimeo]     LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001 URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-neo-muyanga/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120311 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120220T105132 LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T104513 UID:517-1330992000-1331424000@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:GIPCA at Infecting the City DESCRIPTION:The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) presents a number of installations and performances at this year’s Infecting the City Public Arts Festival (ITC)\,  in and around the Cape Town city centre from 6 to 10 March 2012. GIPCA partners with ITC to present works that embrace interdisciplinarity whilst engaging with public spaces. The works emerge from the University of Cape Town's performing arts departments and Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellows\, as well as commissioned pieces that look at public space engagement in compelling ways. These commissioned pieces include a collaboration between Johannesburg based artists Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie\, and Athi-Patra Ruga’s site-specific Ilulwane\, which recently premiered at New York’s Performa Festival. To round off this engagement between GIPCA and ITC\, GIPCA will host a one-day conference interrogating Public Art Policy\, in collaboration with the Africa Centre and Creative Cape Town. Through the week\, musicians will ignite public spaces with sound. Playing off the traditional flash mob idea\, the renowned UCT choir makes its presence known in various spaces; and a grand piano\, resting on the gleaming white tiles of the Station concourse\, is the site of a performance by Donald Gordon Fellow Justin Krawitz of the world premiere of a composition by celebrated composer Hendrik Hofmeyr. Performed by students from the UCT Opera School\, excerpts from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress\, inspired by director Matthew Wild's 2011 production\, are re-imagined as a promenade event in a series of sites across the CBD. With musical direction by Kamal Khan\, this tale of urban moral corruption finds fresh resonances for Stravinsky's neoclassical score\, as his witty take on 18th Century London collides with contemporary Cape Town. teka munyika\, a collaboration between conceptual artist Vaughn Sadie and choreographer Sello Pesa\, looks at everyday movements of the body performed in public space and how these are impacted by space and the elements that constitute it – light\, architecture\, material and surface. The work is performed by Sello Pesa\, Brian Mtembu\, Humphrey Maleka and Murray Kruger\, at Prestwich Place. The Long Street Baths are bathed in red light at night\, with synchronised swimmers performing alongside performance artist Athi-Patra Ruga. Accompanied by an operatic noise soundtrack composed by Spoek Mathambo and Ruga\, Ilulwane\, explores modern definitions of masculinity\, masquerade\, identity and sexuality. Ilulwane is presented in association with Whatiftheworld Gallery. Medicine comes under the microscope when a debilitating illness pitches the critical personal responsibility to sustain health of mind\, body and spirit against the fallibility of medical experts. Celia’s Story is the cinematic debut of Donald Gordon Fellow Ruth Levin-Vorster. Monologues\, movements\, music\, spoken text\, dance sequences and visuals are re-used\, re-cycled\, and re-visited by their original performers\, to create a new narrative which speaks to our common difficulties in building a home. Directed by another Donald Gordon Fellow\, Sanjin Muftic\, Bricolage is on the culmination of his year long experiments with performance sampling. The challenges of urbanisation and the development of cities have both inspired and disillusioned public artists. In an effort to answer some of the questions arising\, about the use of public space and artistic practice; GIPCA\, the Africa Centre and Creative Cape Town will host a one-day discussion that addresses public art policy as it exists internationally and nationally. GIPCA at Infecting the City programme available for download. For full Infecting the City programme\, visit http://www.infectingthecity.com/2012/downloads/ITC_2012_Full_Programme.pdf Public Art Policy discussion audio recording available for download. Infecting the City video recordings [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44735543[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44735542[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44733731[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44731430[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44731429[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44731427[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44731421[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44731422[/vimeo]         LOCATION: URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/gipca-at-infecting-the-city/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120214T085950 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T091243 UID:511-1330621200-1330628459@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Margie Orford DESCRIPTION:Award-winning journalist and internationally acclaimed writer Margie Orford will present an analysis of The Simple Art of Murder. Written in 1944\, Raymond Chandler’s famous and enduring essay on the ethics and the aesthetics of writing crime and fiction frames so much about the perception of crime and its representations – both fictional and real. Discussing the hardboiled detective novel – from Hitchcock’s films to The Wire\, from Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe to the heroes of the new wave of South African crime fiction – the questions implicit in Chandler’s essay remain\, and provide useful illumination towards some South African answers. Described by top journalist Sue Grant-Marshall as “the queen of South African crime thriller writers”\, Orford is well placed to dissect this text. Also the author of several works of non-fiction\, her gripping series of Clare Hart novels have been translated into nine languages. “In a country where murder seems like a national sport at times\, although I have not found the art of murder that simple\, I have found writing about it oddly comforting”\, says Orford. Born in London\, Orford grew up in Namibia\, the setting for her highly acclaimed second novel in the series\, Blood Rose. A Fulbright Scholar\, she was educated in at the University of Cape Town and at the CUNY Graduate Centre in New York\, where she completed a Masters in Comparative Literature. Margie Orford is Executive Vice-President of South African PEN\, the patron of Rape Crisis and of the children’s book charity\, the Little Hands Trust. Her other works include a book on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism; a book called Rural Voices\, a portrait of South Africa outside of its cities; and a book to commemorate fifty years of the Black Sash. She was Namibian editor for the ground-breaking archival retrieval project\, Women Writing Africa\, the Southern Volume published by the Feminist Press at CUNY. She has also written several children’s books and writes a column for the Cape Times. Refreshments served from 5 pm\, lecture commences at 5.30 pm. Margie Orford audio recording available for download. Margie Orford video recordings [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65229598[/vimeo] LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-texts-big-questions-margie-orford/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120223T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120223T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120208T084051 LAST-MODIFIED:20120727T121212 UID:490-1330016400-1330023659@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Great Texts: Handspring Puppet Company DESCRIPTION:Dr. Temple Grandin is a high-functioning autistic who has written with great insight into the way animals and autistic people think. Puppeteers Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones will talk about the influence of Grandin’s book Animals in Translation has had on their work\, explaining why they enrole their audiences as “autistics” and what the implications of this way of regarding an audience are for their philosophy of the theatre. Accompanied by a short performance\, I Love You When You’re Breathing\, directed by Handspring’s puppeteer/director Jason Potgieter\, Kohler and Jones will share their ideas on micro-movement and how central breath is to the life of the object. The presentation will also include an interrogation of their production with the National Theatre of Great Britain\, War Horse\, and the significance of animal being in a theatrical context. Kohler and Jones started Handspring Puppet Company with two friends in 1981. They have worked with with many theatre directors including Barney Simon\, Mark Fleishman\, Malcolm Purkey and William Kentridge. A decade-long association with Kentridge saw the production of a number of iconic plays\, including Woyzeck on the Highveld (now in its 20th year). In recent years their productions have focused on animals: chimpanzees\, a giraffe and most recently horses. Kohler and Jones with Handspring Puppet Company are the recipients of a number of awards including an Olivier Award in London and a Tony Award in New York. Refreshments served from 5 pm\, lecture commences at 5.30 pm. Handspring Puppet Company audio recording available for download. Handspring Puppet Company video recordings - filmed and edited by Dominique Jossie [vimeo width="480" height="270"]http://vimeo.com/42029766[/vimeo] [vimeo width="480" height="270"]http://vimeo.com/42723762[/vimeo] [vimeo width="480" height="270"]http://vimeo.com/42723761[/vimeo]         LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/great-textsbig-questions-handspring-puppet-company/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T190059 DTSTAMP:20130620T061010 CREATED:20120124T150835 LAST-MODIFIED:20130529T090500 UID:469-1328634000-1328641259@http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za SUMMARY:Futures of Nature / Facts that Matter DESCRIPTION:Futures of Nature/Facts that Matter is hosted by The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA)\, in collaboration with the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) and The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Convened by cultural commentator and critic Sarah Nuttall (University of Stellenbosch)\, this discussion will include leading international academics Cori Hayden\, Ackbar Abbas\, Dick Hebdige\, Karim Makdisi\, Achille Mbembe and David Goldberg. The dualism between humans and nature has been a defining characteristic of modernity\, alongside the incorporation of the world into global markets and the attendant production of waste on a scale never seen before. Yet there is a growing recognition that the rate of change of natural processes is shrinking towards the time scales of human society. The time lines of nature are now converging with those of society in a mutual lockstep. This panel will discuss questions such as to what extent is the convergence of social and natural time opening up to possible disasters in the future? What are the implications of this foreshortening of social and natural time for artistic and aesthetic experimentation\, new modes of politics and broader issues of equity and justice? Please see Futures of Nature PDF for full information and panelists’ biographies. Futures of Nature audio recording available for download. Futures of Nature video recordings - filmed and edited by Dominique Jossie [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65072474[/vimeo]                   LOCATION:UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa URL:http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/project/futures-of-nature-facts-that-matter/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR