Infecting the City

Infecting The City’s two international teams of collaborating artists have settled back into Cape Town to begin creating their large scale site specific works, and the Festival’s producer, the Africa Centre, has released the full programme for this groundbreaking public arts festival (http://www.infectingthecity.com).

The Festival promises to transform Cape Town into a vast and contagious cultural happening that infects the squares, pavements, nooks and crannies of the inner city with thought-provoking, dynamic public art. During a vibrant Festival week (13 – 20 February 2010) artists from South Africa and around the world will explore the theme ‘Human Rite’ with a variety of free performances, interactive installations and interventions. The theme asks these artists to orientate their work towards ritual, transformation, healing and celebration.

Some of the programme highlights include the two new collaborative site specific works (Meet Market and Quiet Emergency); Windows into a World – a choreographic dramatisation of the stories of people affected by HIV/AIDS; and Imperfections, a performance art work that revisits and re-imagines the meanings behind two of the City’s almost forgotten historic sites.

A number of the works invite public participation. The Wishing Wall asks people to engage with artists in making a collective artwork out of their hopes and memories. In an investigation of how we rename urban landmarks and streets, Treacle Theatre encourages the public to contact them with alternative names for places in the City (contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or visit them at Talk-TV Café at 100 Bree Street in the weeks before the Festival).

Mandala for Healing is a symbol of reconciliation made from the soil of local sites of trauma. The mandala will evolve over the Festival week in St George’s Cathedral and people are urged to contribute material from their own sites of sorrow for inclusion in this work. And Jump invites you to kick off your shoes and bounce your cares away on a bed that roams the CBD.

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• Contact: 021 422 0468
• Location: Spier, Stellenbosch
• Website: http://www.infectingthecity.com

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