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Use cntrl F or apple F to Find, use appel G to find Next. MOTHER CONSTELLATION AT CONSTITUTION HILL (T) Insurance and security for equipment as described below (T) BRAID : THROUGHOUT CONSTITUTION HILL (T) Erica Luttich, Boitumelo group, All collaborators (T)
A ± 4000m braid made from various materials that acts both as guide to the entire constellation and as an artwork in its own right. Much like the golden thread that Ariadne gave to Theseus in the labyrinth, or Rapunzel’s hair, this braid symbolises the trail of thought or action that could deliver us from the madness of our time – an escape route, the way out. Art Component
| Colour | Wish list | Bowls
Karoo spiral
Route to old fort
Salt pan
Stone labyrinth
Burial/birth mound
Healing witness
Rugstring van die maan
Telephone-stories
She rocks
Sacred spaces
Fractured sky
Archetypal dialogue
Wire court
Boegbreker
The way we bleed
Three women
Unravelled
Gypsy lights
Altar Piece
Kitchen
Wedding dresses
The reed
Children’s room
Route to Hillbrow theatre (only on Tuesday the 9th) | Red to brown/blacks
Skin – leather?
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Grey/White/black?
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Grass
Bandages (blood?)
Silver
Telephone cords
Leather again?
Electronic cabling
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Red
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Red – wool
Light filaments?
Embroidery yarn
Dough
White satin, pearls
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orange, beading
? | Art Component: Braid made of different materials at various artworks. Colour:
of braid and material suggestions Tags (to attach to braid at work)
R15 000
| | 100 Braided Memory bags to sell for R250 each (excluding con hill commission and vat) | Materials | R 5000 | | Boitumelo members | Stipends | R 22 000 | top THE WOMEN'S JAIL (T) OVAL SPACE - BALL ROOM (T) BREAKING BOWLS (T)
All collaborators
The ‘superbowl’ is an installation incorporating more than 200 bowls created by individual collaborators according to the ‘recipe’ described in ‘Homeopathy for a fractured world’, as well as several vessels that were constructed out of the shards of the initial twin bowls. The largest of the bowls contains physical shreds of every single twin bowl – both in its own make-up and the shards of its twin that is contained in its belly. Visitors are invited to dedicate and break their own set of bowls and add it to the constellation. Art Component
| Wish list | | Bowls arranged in a pattern on the floor of the Ballroom, | Lighting | | ‘Saints’ hanging prints on paper – 2,5 x 0,8m each (max 11 prints) | Lighting | | Animated loop projection on one or two of the walls depicting the breaking processes of all the bowls. | DVD player, projector(s) or video monitors | | Accompanied by a recorded song: Breaking the Bowl of Silence (Eugenie Grobler) | CD player, sound system
Recording at sound studio | | Women singing from the gallery (only on the 8th) | | top LEKGOTLA (T) FAMILY CONSTELLATION WORKSHOPS (T) Eugenie Grobler Art Component
| Wish list | | Drama therapy workshop with pre-determined groups | Seating arrangements for 20 people, tea/coffee making facility | SACRED SPIRAL (T) Annali Cubano-Dempsey; Mother-shapes (Boitumelo) Storying petroglyphs of the karroo. Art Component
| Wish list | | Stone and clay objects arranged on floor / on suspended circle shape? – To discuss with Annali. | Lighting | | Video/animation on monitor | Plinth
Computer or video unit | top BIG COURTYARD : OLD FORT (T) OPENING PERFORMANCE (T) Opening performance to take place in this space – extract from Colours of the Diaspora (Napo and co), Eugenie to sing, opening speaker. Art Component
| Wish list | | Opening event performance and speech (short) | Basic stage, lighting and professional sound engineer and sound system | | Napo Masheane and company of 15 | R40 000 | | Catering | To arrange with coffee shop at con hill? | STONE LABYRINTH AND CAIRN (T) Anne-Marie Moore and friends This labyrinth has been built from stones brought from all over the earth. It invites you to walk its course, meditate and find your way to the cairn where you can also leave your own burden – the stone you brought with you. Art Component
| Wish list | | Stones arranged on floor of court yard | Lighting (for event night) and Transport
(to and fro) | REBIRTH BURIAL MOUND (T)
Ilse Venter & Sanna Swart The primal forms of seed pods, shells, birthing shelters and burial mounds speak for themselves.
*video link to the installation at Spark! Art Component
| Wish list | | Pod curtain | Lighting (for event night) and Transport (to and fro) | SOUT PAN (T) Anni Snyman A saturated saline solution at the bottom of the whipping post brings to mind the tears of women witnessing the suffering and death of their children, lovers and fathers – the salt crystals creeping up the post – hopefully to one day embalm it and put it to rest. Visitors are invited to partake in the ritual of adding saline to the pond. Art Component
| Wish list | | Shaped container with saline solution | Lighting (for event night)
Transport (to and fro)
Container material
Salt (lots of it) | top GALLERY SPACE 1 : OLD FORT : THE HEARTH (T) ALTAR PIECE (T) Keiskamma Community A tapestry by a group of HIV-positive women with messages for their children. Art Component
| Wish list | | 3 x 6 m unfolding tapestry | Lighting and Transport (to and fro) R5000 also for representative of Hamburg community (?) | HEARING VISIONS :
Four generations of women speak in tongues. (T) Mmatshilo Motsei Poetry reading to take place in this space by four generations of women Art Component
| Wish list | Poetry
Recording of grand mothers voice
Lighting (stage type – dim, on/off)
Drums
Four traditional seats/chairs
Traditional mats for audience (Mmatshilo to bring) | Sound system*(also for reed song)
Light system
Drum(mer)s
Traditional chairs | top GALLERY SPACE 1 : OLD FORT : THE KITCHEN (T) RECIPIES FOR LIFE (T) Roela Hattingh These food bowls and fruitcake – the stuff of weddings, stories and recipes – the stuff we inherit are not dreams, but real – recipes of how to carry on. – Fruitcake dreams (for sale?) – little titbits like those we collect at weddings in order to dream who we will marry.
*video link to the exhibition at Moja Modern Art Component
| Wish list | | Cupboard with cake/koeksisters/bowls | Lighting | | Pictures of bowls | Prints (and frames?) | | Recipe book for visitors to record wise sayings from their mothers / grandmothers | Wrapping of wedding cakes | | Recipe book (stories) | Transport for old kitchen cupboard | | Video – animation of eating process | Tv monitor (small) | | poem by Khosi Xaba: Handle with Care | Print on fabric | top GALLERY SPACE 1 : OLD FORT : THE BEDROOM (T) WEDDING DRESSES (T) Ronéll Meijerink Much of female energy goes into this rite of passage. Art Component
| Wish list | | 3 wedding dresses – miniature on stands | Lighting
Glass shelf system? | | projected animation (on tent – see below) | DVD player, projector unit | LISTENING WOMB – Nomkhubulwane (T) Anni Snyman A ‘white noise’ room where one can listen to the ansisters speak to you, if you’re lucky. Accompanied by the recorded song: In the reeds of doubt by Eugenie Grobler (lyrics – Melanie Grobler) Art Component
| Wish list | Knocker on reed
Tent shaped listening space
Recorder/player/ossilo-scope | Lighting (for event night)
Ossilo-scope coupled to recorder or computer system
Fan | | Recorded song | Sound system | top GALLERY SPACE 1 : OLD FORT :
DORINGDRAAD COURTYARD (T) GYPSY LIGHTS (T) Mariette de Wet A series of lights appearing here and there – in honour of the renegades, the wild ones, the nomads that tread lightly on the earth. Also leading into space number 2. Art Component
| Wish list | | Lights that activate unexpected, small spaces | Lights and lots of wiring | top GALLERY SPACE 2 : OLD FORT (T) THIS WAY WE BLEED (T) Lindiwe Nkutha A photographic essay on the bloodline of women through all lifetimes. Art Component
| Wish list | | Series of photographic images | Lighting
Photographic prints | THREE WOMEN (T) Katty Vandenberghe Art Component
| Wish list | | Three video portraits – to be projected onto the wall | Dvd player, projector and sound system | UNRAVELLED (T) Sarah Fraser Art Component
| Wish list | | Still picture and installation | Frame, print | | Animation | DVD player and TV Monitor | top MEDICINE ROOM (T) WITNESS TO HEALING (T) Chris Diedericks Bowl installation restor(y)ing memory Art Component
| Wish list | | Installation at big photographic print (2,5 x 0.8m) | Lighting – 13 flame lights, electrical cord
Photographic print on paper or fabric | top CUPBOARD SPACE : bottom of staircase (T) THESE HANDS (T) Erica Luttich and Khosi Xaba Art Component
| Wish list | Stacked casts of hands in cupboard – tagged
Poem – ‘These Hands’ | Lighting
Photographic print on paper or fabric | top ISOLATION CELLS (T) SACRED SPACES (T) katty vandenberghe The isolation cells in this section has been transformed into sacred wombs that breathe and dream with you of another reality. Art Component
| Wish list | | 10 cells activated by projections, displays and audio visual equipment | 10 audio visual projection/sound units and 10 padlocks |
TIMELINE - FRACTURED SKY (details) (T)
Cheryl Gage
This nostalgic installation looks at trees, their gift to us and the debt we carry.. Art Component
| Wish list | Trees on stands (5)
Series of etchings
Series of life drawings
Video | Lights
Stands
Frames
Video unit
Plinths (R3000) | ARCHETYPAL DIALOGUE (T) Eugenie Grobler, Lindiwe Nkutha, Napo Masheane (KAT) Activated sound spaces through one set of ten cells Art Component
| Wish list | | Dialogue activated by actors in cell spaces | Lights
Costumes/props
Actors stipends
(R10 000) | top ATRIUM RUGSTRING VAN DIE SEKELMAAN (T) Amalie von Maltitz There is a San story of the way the sun eats away at the moon until only her backbone is left, and then she grows again…
*Video monitor to relate this aspect of the exhibition to the ancient mothers exhibition at UJ Gallery. Art Component
| Wish list | | Arrangement of sculpted bone-stones on moon shape metal | Lights
Cut metal plate (zinc – to form printing plate later?) | top SHE THE STONE (T) John Moore Beautifully crafted print on the stones and stories of the san people.
**Video monitor (or stills) to relate this work to the exhibition at the Gordart gallery. Art Component
| Wish list | | Print on art paper (2,5 x 1m) | Lights
Suspension of print/frame? | | Video/animated stills of images at Gordart | Monitor unit/stills framed – details? | top THE SHOWERS (T) STORYLINES (T) James Cairns and the Imagination Lab An installation of telephones with stories being told in each of them. Art Component
| Wish list | | A row of old telephone receivers hanging from a single bar, with different recordings inside them | Lights
Sound system that can loop and direct different stories to relevant receivers.
Old telephone receivers
Technical wizard to make this concept a reality | top THE CHILDREN'S ROOM (T) STARFISH FOUNDATION The shop/donation-space of the exhibition, as well as an active space for children.. Art Component
| Wish list | Starfish video
Ma Carol’s story
Merchandise (small prints, catalogue, wrist – prayer braids, posters, cd’s) | Lights
Flat-screen system
Shelves/Till?
Permission/buy in from children’s room people?
Credit card facility | top PHYSICALLY LINKED TO THE MOTHER COSTELLATION AT CONSTITUTION HILL (T) HILLBROW THEATRE (T) Mandy Gifford, Hillbrow outreach facilitators, schools – Sancta? THE BRIDGE (T) Pavement art and street theatre to connect the two venues (+ the braid?) Art Component
| Wish list | Street theatre – several groups of school children
Pavement art – about six blocks of pavement drawings | City council support
Police to shut down streets/protect performers
Chalk – lots of it
– street artists (stipends R5000)
– (Ayanda, David?) | top WALL OF FACES (T) Against the theatre (in the street) Art Component
| Wish list | | The street facing wall of the theatre to become a wall for messages/faces that the public can pin/stick to the wall | Article in major newspapers, some format for this, sponsored by a newspaper?
Poster sticking glue
Permission from theatre building owners? | THE PERFORMANCE - children (T) Art Component
| Wish list | | Children perform a own play they created about their grandmothers. | Some props/costumes?
Facilitators stipends (R5000) | top COLOURS OF THE DIASPORA (T) Napo Masheane A feast of stories and poetry – at the Hillbrow theatre Art Component
| Wish list | | Staged poedra in theatre | Lighting system
Sound system
Operator of above systems | | Backdrop | Print material | | Actors | stipends
(R30 000) | THE CONFERENCE FOR COMMUNITY FACILITATORS (T) To be held in this wonderful space – complete with church, creche, etc… Art Component
| Wish list | | Conference | Everything that goes with this – BASA? to be involved? | top SATELLITE VENUES (T) Linked in spirit and/or video installations GORDART GALLERY (T) SHE ROCKS (T) John Moore A wonderful series of prints that looked at stones used by the women of the san.. Art Component
| Wish list | | Prints and entire exhibition in the hands of John and Gordon | Relevant inclusive marketing to the benefit of all the stakeholders | top MOJA MODERN (T) FOOD FOR THOUGHT - women leading the way...? (T) All collaborators The commercial space of the exhibition – from fridge art – lots of little fridge magnets with images from the constellation – around the white bone image of the boegbreker(figurehead) BOEGBREKER (T) Anni Snyman This sculpture made from animal bones is for my mother – she told me that she once saw a horrific photograph somewhere of a prince that came to south africa to hunt – and they shot millions of animals – they were lying in huge mounds, and he was posing proudly in front. This image echoed in my mind when I read this poem by….., translated by Antjie Krog – It is my offering to all of them, the spirits of those animals, towards re-wiring that string. Reverberating in the poem by Melanie Grobler.. Art Component
| Wish list | | Animal bone scultpure | Photographic print –
2 x 1m on canvas (stretched)
People in space to manage it for the duration | top SPARK! THE GALLERY (T) TREE OF LIFE (T) Erica Luttich, Anni Snyman, Cheryl Gage A celebration/mourning/re-membering of the tree. Linked to products of the conference? I would like to link this space more closely with the events of the conference – any ideas – ibasa? Art Component
| Wish list | Photographic print series of tree near De Doorns (Erica)
Shadow prints and drawings (Anni)
Bodies in the trees (Cheryl) | Prints and frames
Charcoal, paper, frames
Drawings, Frames/suspended?
Lights
Sound track/performance?
Workshop/Conference aspect? | top UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG GALLERY (T) ANCIENT MOTHERS (T) Ruth Hecker & Judith Hecker A beautiful collection of prehistoric goddess statuettes and accompanying paintings Art Component
| Wish list | Statuettes
Paintings | Display cabinets
Lights
Sound/Performance?
Workshop?
Shipping
Insurance
Further gallery space (for after the event) | top SPACE STILL TO BE ALLOCATED (T) Art Component
| Wish list | | Mananna – song by Eugenie Grobler | Sound system | | My People, and Circle of women – Poems by Myesha Jenkins | Sound recording for several aspects of the show (R15 000)
Sound system or prints | | Gate of Deliverance – photographic/digital series by Nerina du Plessis | monitor – unit | top PUBLICATIONS (T) THE CATALOGUE/BOOK OF THE EVENT (T) Art Component
| Wish list | | Writing | An editor | | Images | all collaborators | | Pre-production | Tanya (thank you!) | | Printing | Jetset - R25 000 | | Publishing | ? | | Distribution | ? | top THE WEBSITE (T) Art Component
| Wish list | Content
(Text and image) | Authors, editors, researchers, journalists, photographers, all collaborators | | Pre-production | katty (thank you!) | | Publishing & Upkeep | R55 000 | top CONCLUSION (T) Sponsorship will always be gratefully acknowledged, and limited branding of the event is still possible to arrange. Art Component
| Wish list | | Whole Ansisters Event | R250 000 + items listed above | Posted 29 May 2005, www.face.org.za, authors: Anni Snyman in consultation with all Ansister collaborators. 
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