The Naming and Claiming of Space
The participants are your brush, and the city is your canvas.
Created by:
Treacle Theatre (Kaspar Wimberley and Susanne Kudielka)
When:
Mon 15 – Sat 20
Where:
As and when it happens, around and about the CBD
Visit Kaspar and Susanne at Khoi San Take-Away (Strand Street Concourse, Station Exit)
In collaboration with:
Bradley van Sitters (!Huni !Gurub) of the Khoe San Active Awareness
Group, Zinzile Nannan, Garlic Brown, AFA Negus (!Nanseb), Judah & Levi
from the Franschoek Medicinal Herb Garden, Simeon Goldstone & Naftali
Bushwak from Atlantis, Jethro Louw of the Khoi Khonnexion, Craig Joubert
and P. Dâusab (Khoe and San National Language Body)
Throughout history we have renamed places of significance in cities throughout the world. In South Africa this ritual of re-branding streets, squares and buildings took place after the change of the national and
political orders. The new place names affirm some sectors of the population and exclude others. Sometimes this is a socially constructive, empowering process, but it can also be detrimental.
The creators of this piece have spent several weeks researching, collecting and mapping Cape Town’s place names in the run up to ITC. This research is intended to uncover how we have tagged our cityscape. Throughout the Festival they present a series of intriguing experiments, alternative tours and subversive naming rituals that have arisen from their research.
The artists urge you to contact them before and during ITC to contribute to their investigation and to get involved. They are particularly interested in alternative names (colloquial, personal, etc.) that you may have for places within the City. Call them on 073 837 2704.
Treacle Theatre would like to thank the following Cape-based organisations for their help with The Naming and Claiming of Space:
The District 6 Museum
Faizal Gangat (Tour Capers)
Owen Kinnerhan
Patric Tariq Mellet
David Hart
Jim Hallinan
Peter Hart
Lizo (Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory)
The Khoi Khonnexion
Treacle Theatre
Kaspar Wimberley and Susanne Kudielka established Treacle Theatre in 2003 to specialise in site-specific and site-responsive art, explore alternative strategies for audience interaction and engage in new forms of artistic collaboration.
