“Public art on Prejudice: Any Given Sunday”
A series of anonymous and random public artistic interventions intended to reflect on Cape Town’s social, economic and political tensions in the city’s racially segregated spaces. The creations of participating visual artists—Buhlebezwe Siwani, Zanele Muholi, Gabrielle Goliath, Gerald Machona, Sethembile Msezane, Burning Museum, Hasan and Husain Essop—poet Koleka Putuma and veteran musician Madosini, all centered, in various ways, on questions of prejudice, be theystructural, institutional or personal.
With: Riason Naidoo, curator at Any Given Sunday, Renaud Proch, Executive Director at Independent Curators International (ICI)
Where: Artists Auditorium
Useful information:
The African Art in Venice Forum is held in two Auditoriums in the same venue, Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, Piazza San Marco 1332, 30124 Venezia. Entrance from Calle del Ridotto.
The Institutional Auditorium, “Corte” room, and the Artists Auditorium, “Vallaresso” room, are accessible from two different staircases. The African Art in Venice Team, will be waiting for you at the entrance of the Venue.
The program of the two Auditoriums is organized in sections that look at how the African art scene relates to the world, to itself, and to the cross-border tool of the web. The program of the Artists Auditorium will look at how artists interact with their communities and the broader African and global art scene, and will also highlight the current rise of performance practices, new feminist narratives, as well as activism amongst young creatives on the continent.
“Outlook” section
Africa outside of Africa, how African art scene relates to the global one
“Within & Without” section
The diversity of art ecosystems in the African continent, organizations, events and artists
“.org” section
Digital platforms for the promotion of the arts in Africa. Not for profit organizations, art education and social development.