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SOUTH AFRICA UND LEIPZIG - Begegnungen im Experimentierfeld
In the organizer's words:
Don’t forget to play!
Oupa Sibeko’s guiding principle became our motto: seeking to understand history and recognize contradictions, embracing the uncomfortable, having the courage to fail, appreciating the power of fragments, exploring archives, being different, and weaving together.
This exhibition emerged from encounters between South African and Leipzig-based artists in unfamiliar territory. These encounters took place at two former factory sites: the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei and Arts on Main in Johannesburg. The initiators are the Centre for the Less Good Idea and the LIA—Leipzig International Art Programme. The German Foreign Office had issued a call for proposals for the experiment and awarded grants to South African and German artists. LIA won the call for proposals. We visited Johannesburg to get to know one another. Then the ten South African artists selected by a jury, and later two writers, came to Leipzig for three months each.
Part of the fellowship was a printmaking symposium at the Vlado & Maria Ondrej Studio for Contemporary Etching in Leipzig. The South African artists worked alongside German artists who were also part of the fellowship program. Another special collaboration took place with the printmaking studios David Krut Projects, based at Arts on Main. This venue has since come to represent—just like the Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig—an innovative cultural center housed in a former industrial building. The Centre for the Less Good Idea and the South African artist William Kentridge also have their respective experimental spaces there, complete with rehearsal and workrooms, theater stages, and creative platforms.
No prior knowledge of graphic techniques was required to participate. After all, the main goal was to create intersections between the newly learned technique, the unfamiliar materials, and the participants’ own artistic practice—particularly between analog printmaking, which has a long tradition in Leipzig, and digital or performative forms of production.
Further projects and works emerged from the first phase; they took shape in the moment, through on-site collaboration—in situ. We now offer a glimpse into them here. They embody physicality, explore shifts in perspective, and leave room for the new.
Curated by: Anna-Louise Rolland, Director and Founder of the Leipzig International Art Programme
Location
Weitere Termine von SOUTH AFRICA UND LEIPZIG - Begegnungen im Experimentierfeld
03.
September
14:00
Leipzig
MÄDLER ART FORUM
Free admission
04.
September
14:00
Leipzig
MÄDLER ART FORUM
Free admission
05.
September
14:00
Leipzig
MÄDLER ART FORUM
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