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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