Interface2012-14 is a dala project in
partnership with the Goethe Institut South Africa, which engages with 7 international and 1
South African established artists to set up a process to develop a conceptual
methodology, comprising of dialogues and long term objectives to explore
alternative possibilities of planning for the future city of Durban and South
Africa. Emerging out of dala’s CityWalk initiative, this is an unprecedented
architectural / artistic intervention in Durban’s urban setting. This project
forms part of an innovative process and is strategically positioned as a creative
tool aimed at conscientising civil society and creatively engaging the urban.
These initiatives are focused on an effort to unearth equitable socio-spatial
solutions. Whilst developing alternative bottom-up ways of better understanding
public spaces, Interface2012-14 will comprise of a diverse platform of
presentations:
1) venue : artSPACE durban #Project
Space
Project Space open - 28th July – 7th August
Exhibition
interface2012-14
exhibition
opening – 2nd August 16:30 -18:00
Content : Artist process – video projections and
text
Artists / Architects list:
Bulgaria
Project title: Everything
Must Shine For Me – story of a young boy, Bradlee Werdemam .
Brazil
Joacelio Batista (Film maker) http://vimeo.com/joaceliobatista in collaboration with
Wayne Reiddar – South Africa (new media sound)
Project title:
Counter _ Thureaut: one way
France
ii)
14
students ENS
Architecture Paris-Belleville - ARCHITECTURE URBANISME RECHERCHE
iii)
Accompanying
lecturers: Beatrice Mariolle http://www.bresmariolle.fr and Virginie
Picon-Lefebvre – Paris
Germany
Project title: Rush
Hour – Acknowledging Everyday Practices: an observation of the informal pedestrian
corridor between Umkhumbaan and Warwick Junction
Reunion
Island
Project title:
l’espace creole : urban agriculture as a political tool for social cohesion in
the ‘cite’
South
Africa
“ People as
infrastructure” Abdoul Maliq Simone. With this quote as a point of departure
Faith47 explore the representation of a people place on three major support
columns to the freeway.
Colloquium
Day
one
4th August
Starts
with a performance by exnihilo
danse companie at 18:30 @ artSPACE durban
Opening address: Lien Heidenreich-Seleme
Opening address: Lien Heidenreich-Seleme
Head of Cultural Programmes for Sub-Saharan Africa
Theme: Movement
The presenters in this session take as a starting point the
observation of the rhythm of people in the city as a way to understand and
highlight urban socio-spatial narratives.
Moderator: Prof Monique Marks
Urban Future Centre
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment,
Durban University of Technology, Steve Biko Campus
Participants:
1.Anne Lebatard
(exnihilo)- Marseilles:
Theme: Dancing the
inbetween
With their work exnihilo (dancer)
seek and expose the complexities of what is called public spaces. Their
participation with dala is to further our research on ‘pavements as public
space’
2. Dr Alex Wafer
(geographer)-SA:
Theme: On loitering in
public spaces - basically, young unemployed men hanging around on the
pavements of the city, doing not much. What emerges are all sorts of narratives
of mobility and movement - even as they are static.
3. Dr Nancy Ottaviano
(Quatorze Architects)-Paris:
Theme: Subverting the
Cartesian.
A member of the "Laboratoire
Architecture Anthropologie de l’École d’Architecture de Paris La Villette”, she
alongside the organization Quatorze, are building up a network of architecture
firms (young) as an alternative space-making group.
Day
two
05th August
Starts
with a performance by UKZN applied theatre and performance studies
at
18:30 @ artSPACE durban
Theme: Dialogue
Democratic participation
that is meaningful and has transformation at its core should be dialogic.
Presenters in this panel will engage the complexities of dialogue in the
context of spatial justice.
Moderator: Dr René Alicia Smith
Media
academic and Acting Executive Dean: Faculty of Arts & Design, Durban
University of Technology.
Participants:
Dr Alison J Rooke (visual
sociologist) Co-Director- Centre for Urban and Community
Research, Goldsmiths, London http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/
Theme: Possibilities of
Dialogue
Christian von Wissel (architect
and urban researcher) PhD candidate in Visual Sociology · Centre for Urban and
Community Research, Sociology, Goldsmiths) http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/
Theme: Reflection on Nine Urban Biotopes
Dr Miranda
Young-Jahangeer (Academic–Applied Theatre practitioner)
UKZN.
Theme: Subverting the
panopticon
Appropriation of Theatre
for debate in the South African female prison
Soogen Moodley senior
manager in the Corporate Policy Unit at The Municipal Institute of
Learning (MILE): an initiative of eThekwini (Durban) Municipality.
Theme: Unlearn to Relearn
Day
three
06th August
Theme: On dissidence
Presenters will propose
how creativity has been used as a strategic tool in the act of transgression
with a particular focus on how the margin can play a significant role in
envisioning the future of an African city.
Moderator: Ewok Ian Robinson
Spoken
word flavored Hip Hop Activist.
Participants:
Mzwandile Mavula (Street
trader). Head of ACHIB (African Cooperative for Hawkers and Informal Business)
Theme: Trade Pride and Pavement politics.
Dr Kira Erwin (Urban
Researcher) Urban Futures
Faculty of Engineering Science and Built
Environment
Durban University of Technology http://www.dut.ac.za/node/3771
Theme: 'Servant’s quarter’ - a case study of Kenneth Gardens, a
social housing estate, that she has been working on.
Ashwin Desai (Sociologist
and Activist) One of South Africa's leading activist intellectuals has
produced a remarkable book detailing growing resistance to neoliberalism in
post-apartheid South Africa.
Theme: People in space makes place but a dislocated people makes dysfunctional place.
2) venue : In the CITY :
· Installation and performances – 3rd August – 7th
August
Map and schedule will follow.
3) venue : KZNSA :
· 2 day Workshop : a follow up discussion
on African Architecture by 6 participants of the colloquium of the Afritecture – Building for Social Change
Exhibition [held at the Pinakothek
der Moderne in Munich (2013) curated by Andries Lipiek] : 31st July –
1st August
· Installation – [in
dialogue with Durban Centre for Photography’s exhibition ‘Durbanity’]
4th August – 7thAugust
· performance [date to be confirmed}
Opening the Project Space on Monday, 28 July at 6:30p.m.
