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Art Factory Grahamstown: plastic clothing workshops

06.28.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

Friday’s Art Factory workshop at ILAM saw Grahamstown’s street performers gathered round an improvised ironing board with the task of designing and making their own plastic clothing. We introduced the participants to the process, who immediately busied themselves with various tasks. Some of the children set about meticulously cutting out plastic against the patterns of ...

We love Jasper

05.31.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

I was very saddened to hear that our favourite dad in the group, Jasper Stupart is not well. At every meeting, and through numerous of the projects, Jasper has been quietly in the background but nevertheless essential to the success of everything that he has been apart of (I can recall him arriving after a ...

Tape Hiss and Sparkle Disc Ten

05.20.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

05 Pretoria – Disc Ten by Simon Tamblyn Disc Ten is up on my soundcloud account. This is the song i’m most proud of. I hope you enjoy it. I’m also working on getting data discs available of all ten discs. Maybe also making a compressed zip folder that I can email to peepw if ...

Activating Transitory Spaces

05.19.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

hey guys, so im looking to get into contact with the CT kids working on Activating the Transitory spaces in Gtown, i am currently trying to manage and get this project moving. We have started working with sakhulunthu in the making of the kites, ironing plastic packets together to make the cover of these kites. ...

Floating Island

05.07.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

Hey guys, As many of you know, I have a bit of an obsession with the space of Grey Dam in Grahamstown and have been thinking about something interesting to do there for a long time. I realise that I wont be there this year but would like to propose this work for consideration. Floating ...

Building Trash City

05.02.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

Genevieve Louw On Saturday the 1st of May, the Spier Contemporary was a little trashy (but this time in a good way) Four of my good buddies/colleagues and I decided to run a workshop at City Hall after collecting alot of tins, boxes, plastic bottles and basically whatever we could find and called it “Metropolis: ...

Sakhulunthu Art Factory Meeting Friday 30th

04.29.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

Hey all, For those who are interested in getting involved with coordinating or contributing to the Sakhulunthu Art Factory (see previous post for info) at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, there is a meeting to be held at Hiddingh campus, outside the gallery on Friday 30th (tomorrow) at 5pm…..(we can go from there to Early ...