At CAIRO 2 friendly robbers barbeque pork sausages, fusing the South African national passtime with traditional Finnish cuisine.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Playing the game
At CAIRO 2 friendly robbers barbeque pork sausages, fusing the South African national passtime with traditional Finnish cuisine.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Rules of the game
The game starts at "Cape Town", Saturday 12h00
- - Follow the yellow arrows through Old Rauma
- - There are 2 stops along the way: Tangiers and Cairo
- - The route takes about 45 minutes and is in the shape of the African continent
***Be sure to wear something YELLOW!
You might meet some characters on the way...
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
A little luck can go a long way...
We also attempted to complete the museum component of the show, but since many of the other artists have arrived by now, the museum staff was running around to welcome everyone and meet new demands. So instead, we claimed our territory outside the building by putting up a swarm of Cape '07 signs around the museum.
Tomorrow and on Friday there will be MORE press conferences, and we are also meeting with some school groups to introduce the rules of our version of the game, so that they can play on Saturday.
The opening of the COMMON GROUND exhibition is this Friday and Saturday at noon the route through town oficially starts.
To accommodate the tranquil Finns, we have adapted our hardened criminals,to braai sausages at Cairo, so that participants may not go hungry...very unlike the REAL African robbers, we know. (See the front page of any SA newspaper for more information).
We also hope to participate in the international championships of the Afrikan Tahti board game which happens at the Theatre for the whole of Sunday.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Call for participation
Meeting point: Saturday 6 October at Lonnstromm Art Museum. Wear something yellow and play the game to discover the gems of Rauma.
Official opening: 12hoo (play any time until 6pm)
Duration of the circle route: 45 minutes
All information and maps will be available at the museum.
**Official Martinex Afrikan Tahti World Championships semi-final at Rauma theatre on Sunday 7 October 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The game begins
Arrival in Helsinki
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Cape Town: Start/Fin(n)ish
1) The Castle of Good Hope - the Dutch fortress with Table Mountain in the background - sets the scene. The cement mixers form a legion that gyrates seductively. Music Concrete is an alternative soundtrack to the urban sprawl.
2) C-units: Pirate ships off the coast of Blaauwbergstrand. These sea unit apartments are being built on protected dune area.....bad taste with a view.
3) Rest in Peace is a makeshift graveyard made out of estate agent signboards in Durbanville - another Afrikaans suburb of cluster housing, microwave dinners and nuclear families.
Save the Cape Arrow
Afrikan Tahti: Diggin for Gold is a treasure hunt through the city of Rauma. The route is marked by Cape 07 arrows recycled from the first (and possibly last) large-scale visual arts event for Southern Africa. Lack of resources and sponsorship turned the event into a largely Capetonian affair and left artists "digging for gold" to fund creative output.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The Cape ’07 Arrows
The Project
"African Star" is a 516 ½ karat diamond found in the then Transvaal province of South Africa a century ago. Ironically, this gem is in the British crown jewels.
The AIM of the game
- In the original game, Cape Town is the halfway-stop. In our version, we (as Capetonians) propose a real-life board game with Cape Town as both the starting and finishing point. In this case, the game will be played on Finnish territory.
Urban Intervention
The project links urban development in South-Africa to art incentives in Finland and is a tongue-in-cheek attempt by two South Africans to build a visual and interactive game that might provide a contemporary glimpse into that dark continent of minerals and savages…
The work consists of a public “explorer” route through the town of Rauma. An aerial perspective of the route would reveal it to be in the shape of the African continent (as is the case in the original board game –see image above). The route begins and ends at a space within the Lönnstrom Art Museum.
New routes to old tricks
The route through Rauma will be clearly marked by yellow-and-black Cape ‘07 arrows (re-cycled and re-produced) - Cape Town’s first (and possibly last) “grand-scale art event for Africa”. Various gems will be pointed out on route - ranging from art museums to remotely interesting porcelain figurines in private homes - as these could easily be missed.
Cape ’07 was a brave attempt to develop a large-scale visual arts event for Africa that would be “not another biennale”. Due to lack of resources and sponsors not delivering to their promises, the event turned out to be more of a grand-scale Capetonian affair, with only those in the know able to recognise and “find” the exhibitions and projects scattered throughout the city. Nonetheless, over 300 artists participated, providing a hub of activity and proving that Southern Africa’s boisterous creative energy will flourish even though we are still “digging for gold” to fund the ideas.