ARTIST OPPORTUNITY: The World for All Foundation seeks 33 artists and designers based in Cape Town to design and integrate an artwork on 33 life-sized Zebra sculptures.
The aim is to highlight South Africa’s contribution to a world beset by challenges . An appropriate visual metaphor of such wisdom should be the African Zebra, carrying a message in both word and artistic form, and placed at key locations where tourists and locals will gather during this period.
The Zebras are intended to carry the core messages of Africa’s Renaissance, of South Africa’s peaceful transition from Apartheid to Democracy, and the World for All Foundation’s vision of a shared society, where different people co-exist respectfully, where complexity is embraced and extremism is shunned.
SPECIFICATIONS:
• A R5000 budget per artist will be offered to cover: fees and materials.
• 33 quotes have been selected from the torch bearer of national inspiration, Nelson Mandela and each artist is requested to utilize a quote in the creative interpretation of the Zebra.
• Every artist is encouraged to recommend locations for the exhibiting of their specific Zebras as all 33 Zebras will become outdoor sculptural interventions at various locations throughout the city of Cape Town in the period of the World Cup.
• Artists are not limited to painting or 2-dimensional art only, all creative methods of production are welcome and encouraged.
• The chosen medium should be durable, weather-proof and suitable for maintenance.
• Zebras will be base-coated in Acrylic PVA unless otherwise requested.
• A production space will be available for artists to work in unless an alternative work space is organized by the artists.
• The Zebra sculptural canvases will be delivered to the communal studio space (production costs have been covered and are NOT part of artists expenses).
APPLICATION:
Please submit the following to lerato.bereng@gmail.com :
• A CV as available
• Reference images of a previous work /project giving an idea of the artists practice and experience.
• Preliminary ideas by way of written description (visual sketch proposals would be ideal, but not compulsory)
• Initial indication of possible materials to be used
• Indication of potential sites for the outdoor exhibiting of your Zebra (must be in Cape Town)
• Indication of quote/message(s) you would be interested in exploring (please select from the list below).
DEADLINE for Zebras
MONDAY 7 June 2010
MESSAGES:
"All of us, descendants of Africa, know only too well that racism demeans the victims and dehumanizes its perpetrators."
1. "Anger is a temporary feeling - you soon forget it, particularly if you are involved in positive activities and attitudes."
2. "I wanted South Africa to see that I loved even my enemies while I hated the system that turned us against one another."
3. "There is no easy walk to freedom."
4. "We do not want freedom without bread, nor do we want bread without freedom."
5. "Freedom cannot be cahieved unless woment have been emancipated from all forms of oppression."
6. "No one is born hating another person because of the colour of their skin, or his background, or his religion."
7. "I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who became a leader because of extraordinary circumstances".
8. "To deny any person their human rights is to challenge their very humanity".
9. "The key to the protection of any minority is to put core civil and political rights beyond the reach of temporary majorities by guaranteeing them as fundamental human rights..."
10. "None of us can be described as having virtues or qualities that raise him or her above others."
11. "Deep Down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity."
12. "The time for healing wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us."
13. "Memory is the fabric of identity. At the heart of every oppressive tool... was a determination to control, distort, weaken, even erase people's memories."
14. "Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by."
15. "When you negotiate you must be prepared to compromise".
16. "Negotiated solutions... emerge when those who have been divided reach out to find the common ground."
17. "Only free men can negotiate."
18. "... never again shall continents, countries or communities be reduced to the smoking battlefields of... nationality, religion, race or language?"
19. "... we live in an interdependent world which is bound together to a common destiny.”
20. “We operate in a world which is searching for a better life – without the imprisonment of dogma.”
21. “I will go down on my knees to beg those who want to drag our country into bloodshed and persuade them not to do so.”
22. “Language, culture and religion are important indicators of identity.”
23. “No one can be at peace while others wallow in poverty and insecurity.”
24. “Nothing is more dehumanizing than isolation from human companionship.”
25. “I realized that they could take… all except mind and heart… and I made a decision not to give them away.”
26. “I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”
27. “… colour, race and gender become only a God-given gift to each one of us and not an… attribute that accords a special status to any.”
28. “Racism must be consciously combated and not discreetly tolerated.”
29. “Reconstruction goes hand in hand with reconciliation.”
30. “The strength of inter-religious solidarity in action against apartheid, rather than mere harmony or co-existence, was critical in bringing that evil system to an end.”
31. “We need religious institutions… to be the conscience of society, a moral custodian and a fearless champion of the… weak and downtrodden.”
32. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
