prêt-à-partager at German Cultural Weeks

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Posted for 15 Oct 2010

prêt-à-partager exhibition is a Transcultural Exchange in Art, Fashion and Sports and forms part of German Cultural Weeks in the Cape. A variety of events from October 2010 to February 2011 combine classical culture and reflect on developments, both in Germany and South Africa, over the past 20 years and intend to inform and inspire discussion about finalizing the integration process in our respective countries.

prêt-à-partager a Transcultural Exchange in Art, Fashion and Sports is organised by the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa).
Following an invitation by the institute, seventeen artists from Africa and Europe came to Dakar in November 2008 to engage in a ten day multimedia and interdisciplinary workshop dealing with fashion, identity, history and movement. The artists brought influences from Berlin, Kinshasa, Dakar, London, Stuttgart,Douala, Hamburg and Johannesburg with them to the Senegalese capital and jointly developed projects in a wide variety of artistic genres.
The artworks created during the Dakar workshop – such as photographs, films and video, sound and room installations – constitute this exhibition and will be on display in Africa for two years.
After the premiere in Dakar in September 2009, the exhibition was staged in Nigeria and will now travel to West, East and South Africa.

The prêt-à-partager (“ready to share”) exhibition is a transnational artistic dialogue on fashion, sport, Africa and its Diaspora. These collected works embrace the varied meanings and possibilities of clothing and fashion as determined by different societies and individuals and explore them in myriad ways that go beyond their function as consumer goods.
The Dakar metropolitan area serves as the stage of a world in constant flux, where concepts of identity are fluid. The artists have utilised the fabric of their own history and the familiarisation with new cultural practices to develop striking works, hybrid creations which are socially explosive.

DATE: Friday, 15 October until Sunday, 7 November 2010
VENUE: City Hall,
Darling Street, Cape Town
HOURS: Tue - Sun 10.00 - 18.00
TICKETS: Free admission

For further details see the website www.kapstadt.diplo.de for more events of German Cultural Weeks including: