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"SOFTSERVE"
1999-11-05 until 0000-00-00
South African National Gallery
Cape Town, , ZA South Africa

SOFTSERVE, an evening of multi-media art will take place on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 at the South African National Gallery. The event will include art installations, video work, deejays, performances, and other cunning and spectacular moments of astonishing and intriguing creativity. Loosely modelled on the hugely successful Red Eye programme at the Durban Art Gallery, the idea is to provide an opportunity for younger artists to showcase their work, and also to draw a non-gallery audience into the sometimes staid gallery spaces for a dazzling art manifestation and party.

It will be a night in which the gallery will be between exhibitions, where the walls in two of the main galleries will be bare, offering artists free creative reign and great possibility. Expect anything from an interactive domestic bar and deejay set, to muffin tents with projections, boerewors art, the occasional Scandinavian moose lamp grazing in the crannies, live video and audio streaming between Cape Town and New York, and uniquely innovative musical instruments, plus a complimentary Péche Royale cocktail from the Blah-Bar on arrival.

Artists set to infiltrate include, amongst others, Robin Rhode, who hails from the Cape Flats but has more recently been flavouring the culture zones of Joburg (not on Long Street), and who will be presenting new live performances; Bridget Baker, recently back from showing in New York, will present a new video work on five monitors; Bood Carver of the Honeymoon Suites will perform Plastic Fantastic, incorporating a musical instrument made of PVC piping and played with flip-flops; Jo OConnor will be projecting views of fridges; Lynne Lomofsky presents Nude Ascending a Staircase; DJ Phuleng and DJ Frankie will be the in-house Domestic Deejays, and Kevin Brand, Robert Weinek and Conrad Botes do fire drawings as an offering to the spirit of Guy Fawkes on the tarmac in front of the Gallery.

The plan is for the event to run for four hours: from 6pm to 10pm. Performances and presentations will be staggered throughout this period, with a programme available for guests listing times and spaces. Entrance is a minimum donation of R10, 00 and proceeds from the event will go towards the SA National Gallerys Acquisitions Budget - which is virtually non-existent - to acquire new work by young artists for the Gallerys collection. Tickets at the door.

Check out the live audio and video streaming on the night on ZA@Play and on Artthrob . This collaborative artwork entitled Downloadup will include artists Adam Lieber, Pascal Bompard from Cement Splicer, Peter Robson and Nick Potgieter along with Membrane from New York. Telkom have generously come in to sponsor the lines.

Also bring your radios with you and tune into SOFTSERVE 90.5 FM all night with djs maraschino plunge (shake n stir); salty (zest); smoothee zen (low quay) and sugarbitten (frosted sunday).

Organised by Public Eye.

For further info contact: Robert Weinek @ 448 0956 or Tracy Murinik @ 082 681 0170

NOTE AS WELL: The official after party for SOFTSERVE and the LAUNCH of SURESHOT from the producers of Geto 3000 and Pickle.>

It will be a night in which the gallery will be between exhibitions, where the walls in two of the main galleries will be bare, offering artists free creative reign and great possibility. Expect anything from an interactive domestic bar and deejay set, to muffin tents with projections, boerewors art, the occasional Scandinavian moose lamp grazing in the crannies, live video and audio streaming between Cape Town and New York, and uniquely innovative musical instruments, plus a complimentary Péche Royale cocktail from the Blah-Bar on arrival.

Artists set to infiltrate include, amongst others, Robin Rhode, who hails from the Cape Flats but has more recently been flavouring the culture zones of Joburg (not on Long Street), and who will be presenting new live performances; Bridget Baker, recently back from showing in New York, will present a new video work on five monitors; Bood Carver of the Honeymoon Suites will perform Plastic Fantastic, incorporating a musical instrument made of PVC piping and played with flip-flops; Jo OConnor will be projecting views of fridges; Lynne Lomofsky presents Nude Ascending a Staircase; DJ Phuleng and DJ Frankie will be the in-house Domestic Deejays, and Kevin Brand, Robert Weinek and Conrad Botes do fire drawings as an offering to the spirit of Guy Fawkes on the tarmac in front of the Gallery.

The plan is for the event to run for four hours: from 6pm to 10pm. Performances and presentations will be staggered throughout this period, with a programme available for guests listing times and spaces. Entrance is a minimum donation of R10, 00 and proceeds from the event will go towards the SA National Gallerys Acquisitions Budget - which is virtually non-existent - to acquire new work by young artists for the Gallerys collection. Tickets at the door.

Check out the live audio and video streaming on the night on ZA@Play and on Artthrob . This collaborative artwork entitled Downloadup will include artists Adam Lieber, Pascal Bompard from Cement Splicer, Peter Robson and Nick Potgieter along with Membrane from New York. Telkom have generously come in to sponsor the lines.

Also bring your radios with you and tune into SOFTSERVE 90.5 FM all night with djs maraschino plunge (shake n stir); salty (zest); smoothee zen (low quay) and sugarbitten (frosted sunday).

Organised by Public Eye.

For further info contact: Robert Weinek @ 448 0956 or Tracy Murinik @ 082 681 0170

NOTE AS WELL: The official after party for SOFTSERVE and the LAUNCH of SURESHOT from the producers of Geto 3000 and Pickle.


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