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A
found artwork on the CPUT campus boundary in Cape Town, following the campus enclosure
with barbed wire that was erected during recent student protests and kept in
place since then. Image: Kim Gurney.
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--Cape Town, 3 September
2018--guerilla gallery, an
independent offspace, seeks proposals for a site-specific, temporary artwork or
intervention that provokes a different spatial rendering in a thoroughfare or place of waiting, at a site located within
greater Cape Town.
guerilla gallery (b. 2012) is a gallery without walls. Instead
of comprising bricks and mortar, it moves nomadically to find everyday spaces
and awkward places and matches them to artists whose practice engages the
spatial realm as integral to meaning.
Past projects have
included hosting a group exhibition in a factory wing in Johannesburg’s
innercity (Elgin Rust’s Appeal) engaging
art, media and the law that took the iterative form of a growing legal argument,
a performance art collaboration that included an endurance lullaby sung by
Pauline Theart from stormwater tunnels that interlace beneath Cape Town’s city
centre (Cape Town Under: The Third Voice),
and facilitating a mural intervention on a street corner in Johannesburg’s
Jeppe (Golden City Plan), linked to
Sandile Radebe’s solo exhibition that rescripted the city.
guerilla gallery is an ad-hoc, independent platform that
has just emerged from a three-year hiatus to continue plotmaking from a Cape
Town studio backyard. It operates whenever resources and circumstances
conspire. It has a lowfi ethos that includes slow time, soft touch, situated
knowledges and repurposing the everyday. Visit http://guerillaza.blogspot.com to see
if it’s a fit for your practice before applying.
Still here? Send an email by 31 October 2018 to nomadicplatform@gmail.com including: (i) a specific and feasible
idea that meets the criteria above; (ii) a short narrative biography about
yourself or your collective; (iii) a statement about your practice and what you
try to achieve with it; and (iv) a ballpark budget for the intervention that
includes an artist’s fee.
who: all artists, makers, do-ers, insurgent imagineers
what: something lowkey, smallscale, with a sense of mischief
where: place of thoroughfare and/ waiting, cape town +
when: deadline 31 october 2018 for manifestation at a convenient
moment during the first half of 2019
why: because
connect: @guerillaza
