Cascoland Durban 2008
process
The Cascoland laboratory starts 1 February and runs for five weeks towards the final week festival. After the artists arrived in Durban one of the first things they did was to go on excursions to several possible locations for artistic interventions. Doung Jahangeer’s City Walk is an informal route that is being used by people who walk from the suburbs to town for work and forms a sort of backbone for further explorations by the artists. It brought the artists to Cato Manor, Warwick Triangle and the inner city area around BAT Centre and the development of ideas with the artists.
Weekly brainstorm sessions are a means to stimulate the process of idea development. During these sessions the more then thirty artists that are participating in the Cascoland Durban 2008 edition are divided in three groups. A set of themed questions are fired at them. All these questions relate to the ongoing dynamics of the Cascoland process. What at first looks like a gathering session of grotesque or crazy ideas appears to be a worthwhile exercise.
Another important element in the Cascoland laboratory are the weekly presentations that are taking place. Artists inform each other about the development of their projects in order to stimulate possible collaboration where ever they find common ground.
At Cascoland’s workspace, the Dala warehouse, this process of activating progress becomes clear. Doung Jahangeer, collaborating with Bert Kramer, shows a three dimensional image on his computer of the structure they are creating together. It will become an inflatable structure of 3 by 3 by 9 meters. Besides the fact that one can experience this inflatable structure by going inside it, it can be used for screenings and even a swimming pool is envisaged. Depending on the development of the project they will build three of these installations in three different locations on the Cascoland route.
Moving Hands, a collaboration between John Charalambous, Alison Scott and Carolyn Morton, has just come back from a filming shoot. They have been going to the streets around the Warwick Triangle for several days now to film people for their animation project. Their work will be showcased in different Cascoland screening locations.
Mark O’Donovan found an assortment of ‘bells’ at Sunday’s car boot sale in town for his remarkable turnstile installation. On the Cascoland route, as part of his Human Chainreaction, he plans to make a number of turnstiles. When people pass through them, bells hanging overhead, will chime, creating a melody. It is a clear example of a project that can only work through audience participation.
Jair Straschnow and Gitte Nygaard are finalizing their plans for the Umthombo Drop in Centre for street children in the Point Area. They plan to make a ‘suspended take a break seat in the tree’, a crossover between a hammock and a hanging seat. Besides that they have come up with the idea of ‘the mailbox/lockers’ project, a private domain for the street kids to lock up their private belongings. An official station acknowledging the kid’s existence.
Through a joint effort a pizza oven is constructed to support the team building dimension of Cascoland. This spirit is celebrated by a Do-it-yourself pizza baking session while the Refunc guys Jan Korbes and Mantas Lesauskas are printing car tyre impressions on t-shirts. A nice pizza bite, some groovy music and an enormous warehouse space to dance in, Dala!
Weekly brainstorm sessions are a means to stimulate the process of idea development. During these sessions the more then thirty artists that are participating in the Cascoland Durban 2008 edition are divided in three groups. A set of themed questions are fired at them. All these questions relate to the ongoing dynamics of the Cascoland process. What at first looks like a gathering session of grotesque or crazy ideas appears to be a worthwhile exercise.
Another important element in the Cascoland laboratory are the weekly presentations that are taking place. Artists inform each other about the development of their projects in order to stimulate possible collaboration where ever they find common ground.
At Cascoland’s workspace, the Dala warehouse, this process of activating progress becomes clear. Doung Jahangeer, collaborating with Bert Kramer, shows a three dimensional image on his computer of the structure they are creating together. It will become an inflatable structure of 3 by 3 by 9 meters. Besides the fact that one can experience this inflatable structure by going inside it, it can be used for screenings and even a swimming pool is envisaged. Depending on the development of the project they will build three of these installations in three different locations on the Cascoland route.
Moving Hands, a collaboration between John Charalambous, Alison Scott and Carolyn Morton, has just come back from a filming shoot. They have been going to the streets around the Warwick Triangle for several days now to film people for their animation project. Their work will be showcased in different Cascoland screening locations.
Mark O’Donovan found an assortment of ‘bells’ at Sunday’s car boot sale in town for his remarkable turnstile installation. On the Cascoland route, as part of his Human Chainreaction, he plans to make a number of turnstiles. When people pass through them, bells hanging overhead, will chime, creating a melody. It is a clear example of a project that can only work through audience participation.
Jair Straschnow and Gitte Nygaard are finalizing their plans for the Umthombo Drop in Centre for street children in the Point Area. They plan to make a ‘suspended take a break seat in the tree’, a crossover between a hammock and a hanging seat. Besides that they have come up with the idea of ‘the mailbox/lockers’ project, a private domain for the street kids to lock up their private belongings. An official station acknowledging the kid’s existence.
Through a joint effort a pizza oven is constructed to support the team building dimension of Cascoland. This spirit is celebrated by a Do-it-yourself pizza baking session while the Refunc guys Jan Korbes and Mantas Lesauskas are printing car tyre impressions on t-shirts. A nice pizza bite, some groovy music and an enormous warehouse space to dance in, Dala!