Inspired by encounters with francophone immigrants in Hillbrow (a neighbourhood of Johannesburg’s inner city, notorious today for its state of urban decay and influx of African immigrants) Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter (for their contribution to the Dak’Art Biennale ‘Off’ Programme) interviewed a group of Senegalese immigrants asking them to draw maps of Dakar, which [...]
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 [...]