Not sure if this is letter from Johannesburg 10a or 11

Just a quickie.  We’re planning an event on Sunday at Johannesburg gallery and I wanted to drop a quick post about it.  Firstly, a truncated, de-bumfified version of the eflyer, photo courtesy of Musha Nehuleni, after my version was judged too ‘grainy’ (a photographer, I’m not, as you will have realised by now.)  We’ve been blessed with working with some great photograhers during this residency, particularly Musha, Bethule Nkiwane and  Tawedzerwa Zhou.   Anyway:

The aprons have almost become an iconic image for the project – I’m always looking for an excuse to put mine on-  but they are also symbolic of a lot of  the issues we have been coming up with, and the four of us, of course.  So on Sunday, we’re having an interactive exhibition of the work we have made with Anthea Moys and Kyla Davis and people in Joburg.  There’ll be orange squeezing, mapping, boxing, flowers, films, audio, adopt-a-seedling and whatever else we cook up between now and then.  There’ll also be a series of images, taken by some of the photographers above, and ourselves, in small and poster format, installations that we and our participants have created (together and seperately) and samples of audio and written contributions.  Best of all, we are bringing people across the threshold of the park gates and into Johannesburg Art Gallery and vice versa.   One of the most rewarding aspects of working with people in public spaces, is that you see connections being made, that may never have been made without the work bringing people together, and this has been something that has very much happenend with this short project.  It’s nice to see legacies arise from the work you make.

As a climax to the day we will be launching a series of postcards, depicting images from our interventions and some short stories and comments by participants.  We’ll be giving everyone a single image, but will be selling ‘gift packs’ of a full set of five, all profits to go to George Khosi’s Boxing Club in Hillbrow.

Anyway – as I said the aprons have played a big role in the project and have become almost iconic to us – check out this bad boy:

Thanks to Bethule for the photograph, thanks a lot… And if any of you out there are in and around Joburg on Sunday, please drop in and join us.