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Infecting the City 2009
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Infecting the City is presented by the Africa Centre.

Founded in 2005, as a not-for-profit organisation, the Africa Centre creates a platform for exploring contemporary Pan-African artistic practice as a catalyst for social change.  It provides a new arts and cultural voice in Africa, for Africans. For a range of historical, political and economic reasons, many of the important collections and productions of African art today are located/performed outside of Africa. As a result, Africans living on the continent have limited access to their own artistic heritage and the work of contemporary practitioners.

Based in South Africa, the Africa Centre is both a physical entity and an ongoing philosophical journey that aims to redress some of these imbalances. Its objectives are to: celebrate both the visual and performance heritages of Africa; formulate innovative models for presenting, debating and encouraging the production of art; provide broad access to the creative work and ideas of historical and contemporary African artists; and re-examine the role, identity, transience and creation of art.

Infecting the City is part of a fleet of projects presented by the Africa Centre, which include:

  • Badilisha! Poetry X-Change – a celebration of languages, cultures and styles of presenting poetry through two annual live poetry events and a new internet based radio station.
  • Pan-African Space Station – a genre-busting exploration of global African music. The project is comprised of a 30-day annual festival in Cape Town and an online radio station that operates throughout the year.
  • Spier Contemporary – the largest South African visual and performance art biennale exhibition, which includes over 100 artists and tours Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.
  • Space for Pan African Research Creation and Knowledge – an artist-in-residency programme based in Senegal, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa.

To find out more about the Africa Centre’s current programmes and approach visit www.africacentre.net

Spier Holdings

Spier is the principal funder of ITC.  The Africa Centre is deeply appreciative of Spier’s generous and on going support.  The following is a brief statement of its interests in and commitment to the arts:

Spier encourages expression of creative thought because we believe it challenges us to think, reflect and communicate in uniquely powerful ways.

Our investment in the arts underpins our belief that artistic and cultural expression plays a transformative role in society. Since 1996, Spier’s principal community social investment has been in the visual and performing arts. Spier’s commitment to the arts seeks to acknowledge Africa’s artistic heritage, protect its legacy and contribute to shaping its future.

Projects such as Infecting the City Public Arts Festival, has the ability to develop artists and new audiences and offers Spier the unique opportunity to realise this commitment.

In addition, the Infecting The City 2010 Festival has been supported by:

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