The Africa Centre has announced the appointment of the curatorial team for Spier Contemporary 2010.  The competition is, at present, South Africa’s largest bi-annual art project.

The curatorial team for 2010 is a group of five that will travel the country in mid-November 2009, choosing artworks from the thirteen Spier Contemporary selection centres. Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition opens in March next year.

For the sake of continuity, the Spier Contemporary 2007 curators Jay Pather and Clive van den Berg...

The Africa Centre has announced the appointment of the curatorial team for Spier Contemporary 2010.  The competition is, at present, South Africa’s largest bi-annual art project.

The curatorial team for 2010 is a group of five that will travel the country in mid-November 2009, choosing artworks from the thirteen Spier Contemporary selection centres. Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition opens in March next year.

For the sake of continuity, the Spier Contemporary 2007 curators Jay Pather and Clive van den Berg have been included in the 2010 team.  Previous winner Zambian-born, Mwenya Mabwe brings her experience to the performance arts selection process.  Farzanah Badsha, Visual Arts Manager at The Africa Centre, embodies a strategic link between the management of the project and the creation itself, whilst Ethiopian anthropologist and curator, Meskerem Assegued, represents an external eye, one that is free of the assumptions and orthodoxy of South African culture, history and discourse.  

The 2010 curators will follow in the footsteps of Virginia MacKenny, Thembinkosi Goniwe, Churchill Madikida  and Kadiatou Diallo (who curated for 2007/8) and have their work cut out for them as there are very few limitations to entry for Spier Contemporary.  The team will have to examine a variety of creative interpretations across a wide range of genres including but not restricted to film, animation, design, performing arts, photography, fine arts and more.

The six or seven prizes that will be awarded are not determined by category.  Artists wishing to enter works of any media into Spier Contemporary 2010 must be over 21 years of age and must live in South Africa. Artists may submit up to five entries or proposals each to one of the national selection centres, alternately by post or online.  Entries for Spier Contemporary 2010 close in the last week of October 2009. Postal entries should also be received by 31st October 2009.

The Spier Contemporary Exhibition will open at The City Hall in Cape Town on 13th March 2010.

More Information:
www.africacentre.net
www.spiercontemporary2010.co.za