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reaching
Project Type
Installation
Date
2021
Selection and Installation
The piece was first installed as part of the Institute of Creative Art’s (Un)Infecting the City (2021). It was publicly installed in Church Square in Cape Town, South Africa.
It has been selected to form a part of the CEC Art Prospect Festival in Russia.
The piece has further been installed in Young Blood Art Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa.
Creative Team
Concept by Kanya Viljoen
Created and Edited by Kanya Viljoen and Emilie Badenhorst
With Eve Wong, Jörg Reisig, Tailyn Ramsamy, Belle Ramsamy, Jacqi Hudson, Jessie Diepeveen, Nelson Menell, Ydalie Turk, Namisa Mdlalose, Brandon Blight, Murray Loubser, Elzaan Daniels, Darren Cloete, Songezo Mtsh, Unathi Kapela, Jurgen McEwan, Tafara Nyatsanza, Caitlin du Plessis, Lee Miles, Joycelyn Foster, Tabiso Beau
Produced by Unusual Bones.
Press
Press
Watch Here
reaching seeks to explore the contradictory nature of online communication platforms like Zoom, which have become essential during the global pandemic. During the past year these platforms have become moments of language and film in and of themselves, but have further formed a key role in the way in which we have attempted to reach one another as a community, sharing existence. reaching functions as a video installation, projected in a public space. The video exists of various groups of people trying to communicate with one another. What seems to be mundane conversations about how they are doing, whether or not they can hear each other, and what they are concerned about in their daily lives can seem fleeting, almost non sensible, or fragmented. Yet, when viewed together, they become poetic in nature, allowing for the constant search of human connection to stand at the forefront of the piece.
