When Americans taste South African snacks......

This is quite interesting and somewhat funny... They should have been given tea with their rusks though :)

Get infected by this year's "Infecting the City" 9th to 14th March 2015

If you haven't experienced Infecting the city yet, you are not even remotemy close to becoming one with Cape Town.

You love modern art but don't have much time and you are on a tight budget?

We all love Free things, and one of my favorite yearly event is "Infecting the City" in Cape Town.

Background :
The festival started in 2008 with a singlular aggressive aim to Infect the city with performance that capture the complexities of our daily lives.
Public art has traditionally functioned to popularise art – to challenge the elitist art culture of the galleries and bring art into the streets. Today, public art attempts to respond to the flexibility and cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary art practice combining artistic vision and community values. Public art offers the opportunity to challenge its audiences, breach boundaries, and shift the perspectives of public space. It is this vision of public art that the Festival aspires to.
Over the years the number of artists participating and audience attending has steadily grown with the 2011 Festival including 314 artists whose artworks were seen by over 25,000 people.

This year you can watch the city's rubbish come alive :
The Mother City’s garbage quite literally comes to life in Francois Knoetze's Cape Mongo, a piece that highlights Cape Town’s consumer culture through what are essentially five rubbish monsters. The riveting work, which uses sculptural, performance and video-montage processes, takes the form of a series of films that follow the creatures as they travel through different urban spaces - it not only reflects on the spatial and political conditions of Cape Town, but redefines garbage as a component that has inherent value and is also linked to identity.
Programme C | 12 March | Strand Concourse Centre

You can Re-imagine the Foreshore area : Staged across the globe since 1996, Slinkie Love by Bedlam Oz strives to make audiences rethink the nature of city spaces using monstrous versions of the well-loved 1940s childhood toy. The slinkies, all of which are made from industrial materials and burst to a height of 6 metres, will twist and curl in busy spaces in the city centre as they fall in love with one another.
Programme B & C | 10, 11 & 12 March | Various

Colour-in the city
Colour Me In is an installation that encourages audiences to take a deeper look at South Africa’s political history and how that has affected land and city development. Participants then have the chance to take a bit of ownership back by colouring-in a part of a drawing of a city plan, which is meant to, metaphorically, make participants believe that they have restructured parts of the city to their liking.
Programme E | 13 & 14 March | Church Square

Experience parts of the city as a live musical score
Surface Passing is a collaborative project by composer Galina Juritz, sound artist Kurt Human and filmmaker Roger Young that explores the city’s streets as well as the people that use them daily in a unique way. In the spirit of silent films set to a live score, the work’s musicians improvise sound based on simultaneous live film that features passers-by around them.
Programme C | 12 March | Golden Acre Centre

Click here for the full program 

Infecting The City

Public Arts Festival Monday to Saturday presented by The Africa Centre
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