Cape Town Under: Dates Confirmed

--Cape Town--guerilla gallery adds its voice to a rich spectrum of artistic responses in Cape Town later this month exploring LAND in an event by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA). Visual art installations, public lectures and panels run November 21-24 at various sites across Cape Town to explore land, territory, ownership and art, in particular at spaces of historical significance and contemporary contestation in the city.

Cape Town Under: The Third Voice, a performance intervention by Pauline Theart, is guerilla gallery's project, curated by Kim Gurney. Theart sings an extended lullaby at three access interfaces with Cape Town's historical tunnels that run buried underneath the city: two at the Castle grounds (Nov 22 @ 11h00 & Nov 23 @ 13h00) and one on the Grand Parade (Nov 22 @ 15h00). Read more at the dedicated project website: www.capetownunder.withtank.com.

Artist Elgin Rust, who brought guerilla gallery its inaugural project APPEAL 2012 last year, also participates in LAND. She creates an intervention with Katherine Spindler about the Rondebosch Common at the entrance to the City Hall. 

Other interventions and artworks range from walking tours through the centre of Bontheuwel and the central city to a performance on the Prestwich Memorial grounds, a mixed media installation by composer Philip Miller to an interactive work by SIMilar that allows participants to reimagine land in a live application of the virtual reality game 'The SIMS'. A site-specific work by Haroon Gunn-Salie Witness is installed in District Six and Amy Soudien's Trajectories in sand traces lineage and heritage behind the Iziko Slave Lodge. Terminal, curated by Jean Brundrit, Svea Josephy and Adrienne van Eeden Wharton, features photographic works on street poles. 

GIPCA says in a statement: "South Africa is characterised by a series of disjunctive experiences in a land of extraordinary contrast: its natural splendour belies the brutal experiences of slavery, forced removals and continued poverty. In deference to the centennial of the infamous Native Land Act of 1913, there has been a national focus on land as a vessel of trade, trauma, and restitution. The material inscription of colonisation, with the Land Act as its formalisation, remains performative - still determining where people live and intersect, and how people move through space. It results in diverse and opposing ideas, values, dreams that constantly disrupt the country’s present. That such dissension still exists twenty years into our democracy, foregrounds the complexity of the subject. LAND focuses on contemporary practices, the traumas and the hauntedness that manifest as a result of this condition."

The event is free but booking is required for some of the panel discussions. Visit: www.gipca.uct.ac.za