Cinthia Marcelle and Jean Meeran, Stay, Cape Town, 2003.
Thembinkosi Goniwe , Parties in different places, 2003
Sun Hwan Kim, Workshop at Frank Joubert Art Centre, 2006
Bridget Baker, Extra Soles, Cape Town, 2003.
Very Real Time is an ongoing programme of research, artists' residencies and performance-based contemporary art projects, located primarily in Cape Town, South Africa. The first version of Very Real Time took place in 2003, with a 1-month residency involving 7 local and international artists. Since then Very Real Time has operated on several levels: through the organising of live conferences and online debates focusing on its central issues, and through the organisation of a series of artists' residencies. To date, Very Real Time has organised projects by 12 local and international artists, including : Bridget Baker (SA) James Beckett (SA, The Netherlands), Michael Blum (Austria), Jo O' Connor (SA), Cinthia Marcelle (Brazil), Thembinkosi Goniwe (SA), Jean Meeran (SA), Jimmy Robert (France), Mieke Van der Voort (NL), Sung Hwan Kim (Korea), Conrado Tostado and Jeannine Diego Medina (Mexico), and Ed Young (South Africa).
Described briefly, Very Real Time is an enquiry into the spaces between people in South African cities. The project attempts to take into account the complex historic, social and geographic forces that influence the personal life of the individual, and to find ways of challenging and overcoming psychological barriers that exist.
One of the main objectives of the project is to set up the right conditions for meaningful exchange between artists working in a contemporary and global context.
www.veryrealtime.co.za