So many works of public art defy categorisation or fall across all the conventional definitions. Sometimes we even like to make work in private. These projects we call special ... though we like to think all our work has some kind of a shine."
Bedtime Story
Below is an edited chronology of the postings that first appeared on www.lesfolies.posterous.com - about the making of this most glorious place to park off in Troyeville, Jhb.
But first, there's more:
On Phillippa Yaa de Villiers' de-scribe there's beautiful images and text here too: http://de-scribe.posterous.com/breakfast-in-bed-immortalized-as-a-monument
On Nadine Hutton's seeing-with-new-eyes there's a spread of images to take your breath away here: http://2point8.posterous.com/the-picnic-that-never-happened-troyeville-bed
After eight years seeking funding, AAW Art Project Management and the Central Johannesburg Partnership announced the reinvented Joburg Art City project, which premiered with Mary Sibande’s sellout exhibition Long live the Dead Queen on 19 giant building-wraps in the inner city from June 2010 until the end of January 2011, sponsored in full by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund who made a generous grant to the project of R5814,551.00.
The undoubted highlight of 2009 was being commissioned by the suits at the National Arts Council of South Africa to produce the official opening and an arts performance programme for the 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture held in Joburg in September. The cherry on top for us was working with the inimitable playwright and director, Brett Bailey of Third World Bunfight.
The Summit, which brought over 400 international delegates to Joburg, was about addressing the myriad issues around Interculturalism, cultural diversity and freedom of expression in a globalised century where modernity and traditional culture merge whether by design or by inevitable assimilation – and the role that art can play in creating intercultural dialogue.
