Directed by Suzy Bell(writer,poet and columnist) the festival was co-organized and curated by a number of trusted curators and art practitioners last November 2010. The ideal was to encourage divers exchanges. And in addition to engage also the suburb, renegociate the townships space very much neglected from art world, instead of always doing events and exhibitions in developed Cities, the AMANI Festival also looked at possibilities of producing shows in rural places like Khayelitsha, in order to support integration. Lookout hill venue hosted Art exhibition, hip hop music,workshops,poetry, Fashion show.
Concept
This installation brings to light a multiculturalism viewpoint between Migrants people from around Africa. It is a metaphoric and conceptual artwork which focuses on the migratory history of people and their experience from place to place. How individuals in contexts of place origin and race, have to redefine his identity. Looking back to the past and the future sees concept of birthplace and new place differently(globalization in this instance). Fleets paper boats in this installation are the instability of a society to transform one future,white bandage symbolizing the fragility of a human being to be destroyed and also the capacity to heal himself and be resourceful.The ephemeral attitudes of African societies confront an inherent reality, the question of discrimination, tribalism and gender discrimination have to be discussed and that also face major interests. However in a global viewpoint, prospects of different future has to be considered, in terms of looking at concepts and dynamics of globalism and migration.Therefore to dialectically discuss the matters of African contemporary world as a Pan-Africa interest.
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