Presentation
Shaping public space through creative interventions –
relevant experiences from Johannesburg
by The Trinity Session
featuring public interventions by Hobbs/Neustetter
and Public Art Projects in the City of Johannesburg
Presented at
International seminar for Creative industries 2009, Klaipeda, Lithuania
DESIGN AND VISUAL ARTS: CREATION OF ADDED VALUE IN CITIES PUBLIC SPACES
Presentation by The Trinity Session on
Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Organised by Susanne Jaschko and the Netherlands Media Art Institute (www.nimk.nl), Amsterdam
Symposium venue: Trouw Amsterdam Wibautstraat 131, Amsterdam
The symposium ‘Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in [...]
On Saturday 7 March, the Trinity Session guided a select number of special Business Day and Jaguar guests on a curated tour of Johannesburg’s rapidly evolving artistic and cultural landscape. While the tour was aimed at introducing guests to the current offerings of the contemporary art market, the tour struck a balance between contemporary art [...]
The Trinity Session in collaboration with the City Varsity Newtown Students and Stringlite have produced a CD-Rom to accompany the exhibition Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg 2007.
http://www.onair.co.za/pdf/africaremix.pdf
The focal point of Manifestation African Perspectives (6 – 8 December 2007 at Faculty of Architecture / TU Delft) will be an exhibition and catalogue of the work of Titus Matiyane entitled ‘Cities of the World’. Matiyane lives and works in Atteridgeville, a township close to Pretoria. His panoramic drawings (1.5 metres high and from [...]
The first intake of 100 students at CityVarsity Newtown involved a two week orientation programme designed by the trinity session. Through various personal and group mapping projects, the students ventured into the city with a view to exploring the infrastructure of creative industries and cultural reseources within Newtown.
As additional stimulus [...]
Basekamp & InLiquid.com received a 2006 Philadelphia Exhibitions initiative grant to plan Plausible Artworlds, an international conference and exhibition (to take place in 2007), with a significant web component, devoted to collaborative and socially-engaged artists’ projects and open forms of curatorial practice.
A Strategic Planning Group composed of Liaisons from 10 selected artists groups [...]
Early on in 2006, the Trinity Session was engaged by the project manager of City Varsity, Cape Town to facilitate the launch of City Varsity, Johannesburg. The vision for this new media, fashion design, Television and Broadcast tertiary institution was to align its training objectives and future students with social, cultural and urban regeneration inputs [...]
During the Africom conference of museum practitioners from the continent, held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre 4-7 October, The Trinity Session in partnership with Unesco Digi Arts Africa presented a changing studio environment and its online equivalent: www.africastudio.net. Designed to engage delegates, artists and students, the physical studio addressed themes in accordance with [...]
The Kliptown installation is the fourth Fotobot installation in South Africa under a project name of Fotobot rainbowNOTION, sponsored by Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts and Culture Trust). At each installation the question is carefully pried from social issues influencing the society of the location at the time of the installation.
The Fotobot installation is [...]