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Fragments from Walk the Line
Since finishing the work, I’ve been thinking about why I keep walking along this abandoned rail line and realised it is not about how I made the work, but the layers of history I gathered in local archives and how those stories need to be kept alive
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The Red Watering Can
Whatever we do can have an effect on the other side of the world. On 12 September 2021 artist Jaak Coetzer and curator Claudia Zeiske each walked 21km along their respective shores on either side of the globe, amounting to a Slow Marathon with purpose. At the Cape of Good Hope and Edinburgh's Firth of Forth, they poured out water to be carried to each other's places by the ocean currents. They took their children Theriodopiolus and Rachel along, to talk about the state and future of our world and its coastlines in the wake of the COP 26 Climate Change Conference.
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This October, a Global Public Art Project Turns 35 Cities into Playgrounds — Colossal
From Stellenbosch, South Africa, to Valencia Spain, ‘uncommissioned’ has tapped 54 artists to work on public projects. Source: This October, a Global Public Art Project Turns 35 Cities into Playgrounds — Colossal
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Take Flight
The audience follows two female performance artists’ verbalized, internal processes while they perform the act of walking in South African cities. Encouraging the contemplation of the meeting between the private and the public sphere.
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ONE OH EIGHT is a pair of geolocated binaural audio dramas designed to be listened to in situ on the 108 bus routes in Cape Town and London, accessible via the Echoes.xyz platform or mobile app. The London route covers diverse neighborhoods from Blackheath to Stratford International Station, while the Cape Town route traverses areas including Hangberg, Hout Bay, and Sea Point, highlighting contrasting social histories and environments.
Sounds from the Rim of Africa
The Rim of Africa is a long-distance walking route through the Cape Fold Mountains near Cape Town, completed in 2012 by Jay Simpson during a National Geographic Young Explorer’s Grant. Over 50 days, Simpson scouted the passage and recorded ambient sounds of the wilderness, including streams, wildlife, and hiking activities, which are available as a free sound collage on SoundCloud.
Cape Town Hosts Spectacular Street Art Festival, Africa’s Largest – SAPeople – Worldwide South African News
Visitors to the 2021 International Public Art Festival (IPAF), taking place in Cape Town right now, have been blown away by the spectacular street art displayed on some of the buildings in Cape Town’s oldest suburb, Salt River. Candice Chemaly captured these stunning photos of Africa’s largest street art festival. With Covid-19 safety measures in place,
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British Summer Time: Sunrise Walk (27 October 2019)
British Summer Time: Sunrise Walk 8 (27 October 2019) Grafham Water, Northampton, Bournville, New York City As I walked out the door of my flat, slightly late for the day’s walk, Karin was waiting ready for a sunrise stroll. If I’...
Walk walk, snap snap
The first time I visited downtown Joburg was in 2004. It was something of a daredevil experience, due to the constant reports of high crime rates in South Africa, the fact that pretty much all businesses had vacated the downtown area to set up shop in the northern suburbs, typically Rosebank or Sandton and the …
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