Due to large scale events taking place in the city centre on Sunday, 2 December, the programme planned for that day at the City Hall as part of GIPCA’s Live Art Festival will not take place as planned. Those items will be absorbed into the programmes scheduled on the other days of the festival. The curators have taken care to ensure no work is compromised as a result. The City of Cape Town has been supportive in this regard and GIPCA apologises for any inconvenience caused.

Please see the amended programme below:

GIPCA Live Art Festival | Make-up Your Mind

Programme 1 | Friday, 30 November | Hiddingh Hall Performances 18:30 Hlengiwe Lushaba Madlala with Sdu Majola | Highway to Heaven/Paradise Road Themba Mbuli | Dark Cell Boris Nikitin with Beatrice Fleischlin & Malte Scholz | Imitation of Life. Ends 22:00

Programme 2 | Saturday, 1 December | Hiddingh Hall Performances 18:30 Boris Nikitin with Malte Scholz | Woyzeck John Nankin | Mama Papa Kaka (a leg to stand on) Athi-Patra Ruga | The Future White Woman of Azania Tebogo Munyai | Qina ke Qawe jamie lewis hadley | this rose made of leather The Answer (Ahnie Brandt & Rolanda Fisher) | The Yaat Party. Ends 23:00

Programme 3 | Monday, 3 December | Cape Town City Hall Installations/Screenings 18:00 Michael MacGarry | LHR-JNB | Will to Power | Race of Man Sanjin Muftic | Insert Body Here James Webb | In Living Memory Of What Never Happened Vaughn Sadie and Dean Henning | frequency, lumens, place Shariffa Ali, Nobhuko Nqaba & Samukelisiwe Mabaso | Strand

Book Launch 18:30
Post-apartheid Dance edited by Sharon Friedman

Performances 19:30
Julia Raynham with Chuma Sopotela, Shane Cooper and Brydon Bolton | her name is Lily Sóma Cia Independente | A Nudez Richard September with Dann-Jaques Mouton | Logorrhea:The Emperor’s New Speech Richard Antrobus | Delayed Live(d) Common Sense (Leila Anderson and Stan Wannet) | A Report on the Intellectual Tradition of Self-Generating Systems of Information Spirit Mba | Portrait Tossie van Tonder | Tabula Rasa | Book-dance and interview-performance Drinks and Discussion. Ends 23:00

Programme 4 | Tuesday, 4 December | Cape Town City Hall Installations/Screenings 18:00 Thalia Laric | Eyes closed in small room Michael MacGarry | LHR-JNB | Will to Power | Race of Man Sanjin Muftic | Insert Body Here James Webb | In Living Memory Of What Never Happened Vaughn Sadie and Dean Henning | frequency, lumens, place Shariffa Ali, Nobhuko Nqaba & Samukelisiwe Mabaso | Strand

Performances 19:30
Warona Seane | Buy This Thabiso Pule and Hector Thami Manekehla | Penis Politics Nelisiwe Xaba and Mocke J van Veuren | Uncles & Angles The Poor Artists | The Digital Man Christian Nerf | Believe You Me Murray Kruger | Drown in my own tears (I never loved a man the way that I loved you) Siya Ngcobo, Llwellyn Mnguni and Art | A Whole New Bible Drinks and Discussion. Ends 23:00

The Live Art Festival, presented by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, and subtitled ‘Make-up your Mind’, seeks to be a space for interrogation and exploration of contemporary art forms. Embodying themes of presence, identity and gender, the inaugural festival comprises over 30 artists who emerge from a wide range of fields, often collapsing disciplinary boundaries. Conceptualised by Jay Pather; the curatorial team comprises Jay Pather, Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton, Nadja Daehnke and Oddveig Nicole Sarmiento.

The Live Art Festival runs from Friday, 30 November to Tuesday, 4 December at various venues in Cape Town. Performances will only be staged once and, as with most live art, viewing room is very limited so members of the public are urged to book early. Tickets are day passes, which will allow audience members entrance to between three and seven works, depending on the programme. In line with GIPCA’s policy to make such work widely accessible, tickets are inexpensive: R40 (students) and R70 (adults) per day. These may be purchased online from Webtickets.

A full detailed programme is available from www.gipca.uct.ac.za. For more information, please contact the GIPCA office on [email protected] or 021 480 7156.