Makeshift Drive In

More from the team: This is the proposal for our first project. Its geared to happen during the public arts project at the 2010 festival next year but we're aiming to test run it in Cape Town a couple of times beforehand. As usual, were keen for anyone with ideas or ability to help to do so, so please get in touch with either me or Linda. If you have any ideas, be they creative contributions or percieved logistical problems then let us know here.

Furthermore, If anyone has any ideas that they think would be cool for mixtape to undertake then please feel free to post them here too.

The Mixtape Public Arts Project is geared towards enabling a new generation of South African artists to engage in the public sphere, but also to create a South African audience that is contemporary art aware. The Makeshift Drive-In will further this endeavour by providing a platform for young aspiring South African filmmakers and video artists to display their work at the National Arts Festival. Simultaneously it will provide an exciting environment for National Arts Festival-goers to engage in the work of established artists, an opportunity often only afforded to fellow artists and gallery goers.

In accordance with Mixtape’s mandate to bringing art outside of conventional exhibition spaces, the Makeshift Drive-In will be held in a public space in the midst of the festival, projected on the side of a building in front of a large parking lot. We will organize an audiovisual projector /speaker system that will ensure that the quality of the artists’ work is preserved. Mixtape also plans an introductory event to be held in Cape Town, organized along similar lines, in order to publicize the project and promote the artists involved

At the National Arts Festival Mixtape will also engage with the local and surrounding communities and establish networks of transport to ensure the inclusion of audiences unused to contemporary South African art, and who would not otherwise have access to the festival programme despite it being on their doorstep.

For at least one night of the festival, Mixtape would like to screen a selection of video work by prominent South African artists. Inspired by the Artslot program at the 2009 Encounters Film festival, we would like to screen a selection of works by artists like Moshekwa Langa, William Kentridge and Minnette Vári. However, there will also be screenings of any promising video or film work by young South African artists. If you have anything you think might work then let us know here or by mail. As always we're keen for any comments, ideas or criticisms that people might have.



Linda Stupart (Project Manager)
Lind.stupart2@gmail.com

James Randle (Publications, Promotions, Finance Coordinator)
jpgrandle@gmail.com