MIXTAPE PUBLIC ARTS PROJECT OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS, PERFORMERS, FILMMAKERS & MUSICIANS

Here at Mixtape, we too are widening the corridors and adding more lanes. To start with, we're launching our Public Arts Project. It's going to be big, and it's going to be rad, so get involved (whether you live in Cape Town or Grahamstown or anywhere in the world, we want your input).

The Mixtape Public Arts Project is Mixtape’s flagship project, which will ultimately take 10 – 15 artists, performers, musicians, filmmakers and cultural producers to stay and work at the 2010 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown where they will produce a series of workshops and public projects. For 2009 – 2010, we will meet with interested artists and cultural producers, workshopping ideas, artworks and models for public art and the National Arts Festival. In Grahamstown the selected group will work collectively on realizing the projects discussed throughout the year, creating a variety of installations, interventions, performances and other public art projects, all occurring outside of conventional art exhibition spaces.

The Mixtape Public Arts Project will also have a community outreach component. However, as opposed to the traditional, often paternalistic models of going into a community and dictating artistic working methods and/or outcomes, this will be a process of sharing skills and ideas and working towards a new cultural synthesis that truly represents the authorial voices of South Africa today, while still sharing the skills of both highly educated and self-taught artists and artisans, to the benefit of all involved.

So, Want to meet people

Talk about art

Make things together

Work on meaningful community projects

and take over the city (and others)

Or just be informed of what we’re doing?

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