As part of the public program of the LAND public art festival and symposium, Farouk and Nicole Sarmiento curated a set of site-sensitive film screenings of films by Kim Munsamy, Sebástian Porras, Heidi Grunebaum and Mark Kaplan. The films were screened in historic buildings in Cape Town’s Central Business District, which carry within them histories of …
“Out of Sight. Uitsig. Walking with Ashley Walters”, article in Uitsig by Ashley Walters, Sanlam Press, Cape Town. Ashley Walters Artist: https://ashleywaltersstudio.com/uitsig-2013 On Thursday 18th May 2015 I joined Ashley Walters for a short walk to retrace some of the routes he walked as a child growing up in Uitsig. Starting off at his family …
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District Six on the Fringe (2013) at the Homecoming Centre. An event by The PublicCulture CityLab at the African Centre for Cities. The area designated as ‘The Fringe’ is intertwined with District Six and yet that history of the space, with its memory of forced removals, has not figured significantly in the ‘cultural regeneration’ plans …
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