jay pather presents on cape town public art festival infecting the city

Public Art

Infecting the City Festival Cape Town

• Public Art not new

• Interconnectedness amongst people

• Art out of galleries and theatres

• Audience development

• Re-imagining of the city

• Extraordinary in the ordinary

Some basic principles

• Open call for visual and all performing arts • Matching performance to sites • No set theme • New and restaged works • High Quality Production values • Free of charge • Continuous programmes over a week • Afternoon and evening • Performances follow each other: Routes mapping

the city with art

Invigorating the city

Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra

Jazzart Dance Theatre

Diana Page Company

UCT Opera

Cape Town City Ballet

Jacki Job

Justin Krawitz

Flash Mob Choir

Cape Town Youth Orchestra

Lean Coetzer

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Victorine Muller

Erin Bosenberg

Installations

Social Relevance

Land

The Callings– Nicole Sarmiento, Memory Biwa, and Tazneem Wentzel

Gloria Mbhele

SKIN AND SURFACE: Abdul Rashid Olanyi

SKIN AND SURFACE: Abdul Rashid Olanyi

SKIN AND SURFACE: Abdul Rashid Olanyi

Land

• SELLO PESA AND VAUGHN SADIE

teka munyika (Tsonga for give and take)

Land

JULIA RAYNHAM

PHYLUM AND PHOENIX

Land

• NICOLA HANEKOM

LOT

Land

• MANDLA MBOTHWE

UVUKO! Resurrection

• Athi Patra Ruga: Illulwane

Public Participation

Leonard Shapiro

Isgak Stemmert

Jacques Coetzee

Public Policy Conference

Playfulness and Innovation

PLAY: Lean Coetzer

PLAY: Leila Anderson and Stan Wannett

Owning the city

Value in a nutshell

• New Audiences

• Interaction – formal/informal

• Awareness of city as lived space

• Invigorating the Architecture

• Appreciation of art

• Sense of History, belonging

• Sharing Communal experiences

Challenges

• Wider Access

• Transportation

• Public Art Policy

• Maintaining Quality

• Funding