Jay Pather presents on the Cape Town public art festival, Infecting the City: Public art has always been part of who we are on this continent and in this country. The interconnectedness of the African “us” has often been impeded however, throwing people apart and far away from each other, creating a physical and psychic separation. Infecting the City is a small attempt at igniting this interconnectedness through artistic expression, making public space public.

1. Public Art
Infecting the City Festival
Cape Town

2. • Public Art not new
• Interconnectedness amongst people
• Art out of galleries and theatres
• Audience development
• Re-imagining of the city
• Extraordinary in the ordinary

16. Some basic principles
• Open call for visual and all performing arts
• Matching performance to sites
• No set theme
• New and restaged works
• High Quality Production values
• Free of charge
• Continuous programmes over a week
• Afternoon and evening
• Performances follow each other: Routes mapping
the city with art

20. Invigorating the city

21. Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra

23. Jazzart Dance Theatre

26. Diana Page Company

27. UCT Opera

33. Cape Town City Ballet

35. Jacki Job

38. Justin Krawitz

40. Flash Mob Choir

42. Cape Town Youth Orchestra

43. Lean Coetzer

44. L

45. Victorine Muller

47. Erin Bosenberg

48. Installations

49. Social Relevance

50. Land
The Callings– Nicole Sarmiento, Memory Biwa,
and Tazneem Wentzel

57. Gloria Mbhele

59. SKIN AND SURFACE: Abdul Rashid
Olanyi

60. SKIN AND SURFACE: Abdul Rashid
Olanyi

61. SKIN AND SURFACE: Abdul Rashid
Olanyi

64. Land
• SELLO PESA AND VAUGHN SADIE
teka munyika
(Tsonga for give and take)

71. Land
JULIA RAYNHAM
PHYLUM AND PHOENIX

74. Land
• NICOLA HANEKOM
LOT

78. Land
• MANDLA MBOTHWE
UVUKO! Resurrection

81. • Athi Patra Ruga: Illulwane

88. Public Participation

89. Leonard Shapiro

90. Isgak Stemmert

91. Jacques Coetzee

92. Public Policy Conference

96. Playfulness and Innovation

97. PLAY: Lean Coetzer

99. PLAY: Leila Anderson and Stan
Wannett

102. Owning the city

119. Value in a nutshell
• New Audiences
• Interaction – formal/informal
• Awareness of city as lived space
• Invigorating the Architecture
• Appreciation of art
• Sense of History, belonging
• Sharing Communal experiences

120. Challenges
• Wider Access
• Transportation
• Public Art Policy
• Maintaining Quality
• Funding