RE-Creating Spaces in Flux

Intersections are physical, conceptual, psychological and philosophical spaces where people, ideas and objects interact. Intersections mark meeting points in our cities and lives, some fleeting, others profound. The idea City Walk is to explore the concept of intersecting spaces in South Africa in the context of the 2010 World Cup. How does our socio-political and physical environment condition these relationships? Through this discussion, how can we develop meaningful dialogue towards a more humane and just society?

The South African creative collective ‘dala’ has invited TIME_FRAME_NIMk to take part in a laboratory to explore the impact of the 2010 World Cup on South African cities from a grounded and people-centred perspective. The popular media generally only documents large-scale international events from a particular perspective.

Although these events bring excitement and possibility to cities, they effect and impact on people and spaces in different ways. This laboratory aims to explore these complexities, focusing on how stories, people and spaces intersect in the context of this international event.

dala is hosting 10 creative practitioners for a 10 day new media experiment in Durban: Miguel Petchovsky (Angola / Netherlands), Elena Perez Hernandez (Spain / Netherlands), Mayura Subhedar (India / Netherlands), Walter Langelaar (Netherlands), Lilia Perez Romero (Mexico / Netherlands), Doung Jahangeer (South Africa), Rike Sitas (South Africa), Dean Henning (South Africa), Zen Marie (South Africa) and Peter McKenzi (South Africa).

These laboratory involves the following events:

> Seminar with Mayura Subhedar, Walter Langelaar, Lilia Perez Romero
Wednesday // 7 July // 9am – 12am // Vega, Westville (RSVP Joy 031 266 2595 / joy@vegaschool.com)
> Lecture with Heiner Holtappels, Director of NIMk // Screening of NIMk video art collection // Final presentation of artists work
Saturday // 10 July // 4pm – 7pm // KZNSA (RSVP Emme 031 277 1705 / gallery@kznsagallery.co.za)
> TIME_FRAME exhibition opening at the Durban Art Gallery
Tuesday // 13 July // 6pm // DAG (project space is open from Monday 5 – 19 July – 2 weeks only!)

On October 25, 2009, Miguel Petchkovsky and Heiner Holtapples met Dr, Manuel Veiga, Ministry of Culture of Cabo Verde, and the multimedia artist Mito Elias, in order to discuss the implementation of the project Tchuba_ NA Vulcão in Cabo Verde, within the context of TIME FRAME.

The meeting took place in the Cultural Centre Cape Verde in Rotterdam. It seems that this project comes at an excellent time because Cape Verde needs to develop strategies and methodologies to promote audiovisual creative practices in order to provide sustainable training to new generations of artists in the field of media and digital art.
It was also discussed the possibility of building an archive that hosts and promotes those audiovisual works based on the rich Cape Verde oral literature, where the traditional heritage meets the contemporary culture, benefiting future generations and reaching international audiences.

Dr. Manuel Veiga seems to be very fond of the project and is considering to include it in the program for the celebration of the independence of Cabo Verde next summer 2010.