The winners are Janine Allen and Rudolph Tshie, who tied and will therefore share the award’s career development grant of R100,000 between them. Janine Allen had two artworks in the Exhibition: The Island (a mixed media installation) and The Incarnation of the Puti (a mixed medium painting). The Exhibition housed three of Rudolph Tshie’s oil paintings, namely Mebarakeng (The Market), Sunsets on Power and Kaalplass Gathering (Waiting).

Vandalizim is a healing ceremony performed by Zim Ngqawana and Kyle Shepherd in the desecrated body of The Zimology Institute. The film of this event, The Exhibition of Vandalism (60 minutes, Sound Recordist, Jabu Mxhaka, Filmed and Edited by Aryan Kaganof) has been edited as a springboard to a further improvisation that will take place live in the City Hall.

The screening of the film will be followed by the duet of Kyle Shepherd (on piano and violin) and Zim Ngqawana (on woodwinds) playing compositions which were inspired by vandalism on The Zimology Institute’s farm earlier this year. Two grand pianos were heavily vandalized and the building was stripped of all electrical connections and was left a shell. Other items broken during the act of vandalism are also incorporated in the composition.

Filmed by Aryan Kaganof from African Noise Foundation, and coordinated by Zaide Harneker, this event is a fundraising effort towards rebuilding The Zimology Institute. The Institute is grateful to all those participating in this fundraising event.

V A N D A L I Z I M featuring ZIM NGQAWANA and KYLE SHEPHERD
Place: Cape Town City Hall, Darling Street (opp. Grand Parade)
Date: Friday, 30 April 2010
Time: 20h00
Cost: R70 (at the door); R50 (pre sold at Africa Centre, 44 Long street)

Please feel free to contact Africa Centre on 021 422 0468, or e-mail matthews@africacentre.net. More information on the musicians and filmmaker are available on request.

Farzanah Badsha – a Spier Contemporary curatorial team member – is conducting free tours at the City Hall every Wednesday at 11am and every Saturday at 2pm until the 14 May 2010.

Live performance art sessions will be held on the following weekends before the Exhibition closes on the 14th May. The performance weekends are:

• 10 and 11 April;
• 24 and 25 April; and
• 8 and 9 May.

Performances will run from 11am to 12pm and 3pm to 4pm on the Saturday, and 3pm to 4pm on the Sunday.

On the 10 & 11 April the performance schedule will include:

• Newspaper Persona by Phillipe Wayumba Wa-Yafolo;
• Shift by Mamela Nyamza;
• Elcarim: Turning Wine Into Water by Nina Liebenberg; and
• Walking Together by Philippe Kayumba Wa- Yafolo.

For more information on the actual performances, click on the links above, or visit the Exhibition page of the Spier Contemporary website.

Spier Contemporary is open from 10am to 6pm every day until the 14th May 2010 (including public holidays). Admission is Free.

The Exhibition comprises 132 artworks from 101 artists. Many of these artworks are performance pieces. Video ‘residue’ of each performance is permanently showing at the Exhibition.

To get the full benefit of each artwork, live performance sessions will take place over four weekends:

• 27 and 28 March;
• 10 and 11 April;
• 24 and 25 April; and
• 8 and 9 May.

Performances will run from 11am to 12pm and 3pm to 4pm on the Saturday, and 3pm to 4pm on the Sunday.

On the 27 and 28 March the session will run in this order:

• Voices by Maurice Mbikayi – outside: meet at the entrance to City Hall
• Newspaper Persona by Phillipe Wayumba Wa-Yafolo – outside: meet at the entrance to City Hall
• Itch by Mxolisi Nkomonde
• Lullaby: A Hair Dance To The Music Of ‘Kalimba Lullaby’ By Mr. Cat And The Jackal by Lean Coetze
• Inferno by Mlu Zondi
• Walking Together by Philippe Kayumba Wa-Yafolo

For more information on the actual performances, click on the links above, or visit the Exhibition page of the Spier Contemporary website.

Spier Contemporary is open from 10am to 6pm every day until the 14th May 2010 (including Easter and public holidays). Admission is Free.

www.spiercontemporary2010.co.za • 0860 111 458 • join the facebook group and follow us on twitter.com/spiercontmp2010

This weekend, the Pan African Space Station and Liquid Fridge present ARD-16: crazed sound and light on Saturday night, 20th March, another opportunity to party with the art. Details on facebook here.

On Sunday evening – the 21st March, a Human Rights Day photographic exhibition with live music and DJ’s presented by SWEETHONEYBEAT productions. For more information, check it out online here.

If that wasn’t enough to whet your appetite to get you to Cape Town City Hall, Rotesserie 360 has a cafe serving delicious food, and the Fringe has a pop up store every day of the Exhibition. Details are available here.

And, there’s more to look forward to in the weeks to come, as Cape Mic hosts a series of concerts, the first featuring Dave Ledbetter in Concert with Buddy Wells, Kesivan Naidoo, Andrew Lilley and Lee Thomson on Wednesday the 23rd March. More details for further concerts join the Facebook group here. Here is the line up:

• 23rd March -  in Concert with Buddy Wells, Kesivan Naidoo, Andrew Lilley and Lee Thomson
• 27th March – Gordon Vernick (US) Quartet
• 30 March – Classical night including works by Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Lizt and Milhaud with Reese Barkhuizen (piano), Petra Hofmeyr (violin) and more!
• 6th April – Adrian Mears and Feya Faku with Kesivan Naidoo and Charles Lazar
• 13th April – Rus Nerwich Mantras for Modern Man
• 17th April – Madosini and Derek Gripper
• 20th April – Feya Faku Quintet
• 27th April – Akoustik Knot with Sixteen Reasons String Quartet

Tickets will be sold at R50 per performance. Tickets will be available at the door. (Grand Parade Entrance CIty Hall)

Performances will begin promptly at 8pm. Keep and eye on this website or the twitter feed, to keep up to date with what is going on at Spier Contemporary.co.za
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