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19/08/2015 FILM nIGht: thE BaaDER MEInhOF COMPLEX Goethe-InstItut

20/08/2015- ZKM_GaMEPLaY 02/10/2015 Goethe-InstItut GALLeRY

22/08/2015 FAK’uGesI FestIVAL: LuMIeRe II BY RoBeRt henKe aLEXanDER thEatRE

03/09/2015- no otheR CountRY: 20/09/2015 the GosPeL ACCoRDInG to ChRIs hAnI GOEthE On MaIn

09/09/2015- A MAZe FestIVAL 13/09/2015 JohAnnesBuRG

11/09/2015- JoBuRG ARt FAIR 13/09/2015 sAnDton ConVentIon CentRe

15/09/2015 LIteRARY CRossRoADs WIth henRIettA Rose-Innes Goethe-InstItut

16/09/2015 FILM nIGht: GanZ nah BEI DIR Goethe-InstItut

admission to all events is free of charge, unless otherwise stated

hAnD In YouR PRoJeCt PRoPosAL FoR GOEthE On MaIn: aPPLICatIOn DEaDLInE 17 AuGust

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Baader Meinhof Complex © Constantin Film

FILM nIGhtthE BaaDER MEInhOF COMPLEX

19/08/2015, 18h30GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD

Germany 1967: The children of the Nazi generation have grown up in the devastation their parents created. They vowed fascism would never rule again. In their fight for freedom they lost themselves in the cause and ignited a revolution around the world. Meet the original faces of terrorism, the Baader Meinhof Group, in the Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated film. Starring Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Joanna Wokalek and Bruno Ganz. Directed by Ulli Edel. Produced by Bernd Eichinger. © Constantin Film.

English subtitles. Drinks will be provided.

Please RSVP by 17 August 2015 to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org

VIDeo GAMe InstALLAtIonZKM_GaMEPLaY

oPenInG 20/08/2015 18h30. Runs untIL 02/10/2015GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD

ZKM_Gameplay was conceptualised as a permanent exhibition of video games and experimental forms of play at ZKM, the Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, by co-curators Stephan Schwingeler and Ber-nhard Serexhe. The Goethe-Institut brings a selection of the work from the exhibition to Johannesburg, as part of their engagement with the Fak’ugesi Digital Africa and Amaze Festivals.

For centuries new artistic, experimental, media-reflective, as well as ‘seri-ous’ games have evolved and in recent years, the cultural and economic power of digital games and gameplay have experienced immense growth. Computer games particularly, of which the ZKM_Gameplay exhibition is composed, is central to the ZKM museum’s display and reflects games’ importance within our contemporary society, so heavily influenced by digi-talized realities of life.

One area of focus within the exhibition is independent games and serious games. These are approaches that have distinguished themselves, for example, by particularly innovative game ideas, interesting experimental approaches, powerful cultural statements, or a unique awareness of its own means and forms of expression. The exhibition’s special highlights are, amongst others, The Night Journey by media artist Bill Viola and 1378(km) by Jens Stober.

‘FEZ’ © Polytron

FestIVALFAK’uGesI DIGItAL AFRICAn InnoVAtIon FestIVAL 2015

22/08/2015 - 13/09/2015 BRAAMFONTEIN

Rise digital Africa rise! It’s time to create, innovate and germinate. Stop Googling and start making the tools to upload your potential. Connect realtime to innovative digital minds with: seminars, talks, exhibitions, game arcades, workshops, public performances, parties, interactive installations, tech demos, and pitches.

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PERFORManCEFAK’uGesI: LuMIeRe II BY ROBERt hEnKE

22/08/2015, 20h00-21h30 (tBC)ALEXANDER THEATRE, BRAAMFONTEIN

For the first time ever, for one night only, the Berlin techno music legend and software developer, Robert Henke, performs his composition for laser art and sound, Lumiere II. Lumière is a new kind of event, a previously unseen and highly synchronized immersive experience.

Lumière has been performed globally at, among others, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Teatro della Tosse Genoa, the Centre Cinema Imperial Montreal, and the main concert hall of the Barbican Centre London. This is the first performance of this new kind of art in Africa, brought to Johannesburg in partnership with the Goethe-Institut.

© Robert Henke Lumiere II

EXhIBItIOnno otheR CountRY: the GosPeL ACCoRDInG to ChRIs hAnI

oPenInG 03/09/2015 18h30. Runs untIL 20/09/2015GOETHEONMAIN, 245, MAIN ST MABONENG PRECINCT

This project combines responses by students and ‘guests’ to an

unreleased interview of Chris Hani by German photographer Reiner Leist.

The interview was recorded in the early nineties, shortly before Hani’s

assassination in 1993. ‘No Other Country: The Gospel According to Chris

Hani’ will explore this document, generating responses to the material

and imagining new questions, situating this historical moment to our

contemporary time.

Leist went onto publish his Blue Portraits (1993), which reflected on

this time through images of, and conversations with, both ordinary and

extraordinary South Africans. This publication was followed up by

Another Country (2014) that sought to trace some of the people and

conversations twenty years on.

Independent curator and the co-founder of the Johannesburg based

independent collective platform, the Center for Historical Reenactments

(CHR), Gabi Ngcobo is working with Drawing and Contemporary Practice

students at University of the Witwatersrand, in her capacity as lecturer

there, to formulate responses to this document, engaging speakers and

producing activations. With ‘No Other Country: The Gospel According to

Chris Hani’ Ngcobo continues her interest in rethinking our current South

African condition by, in part, revisiting and renegotiating our past.

Chris Hani © Reiner Leist

LIteRAtuRe LIteRARY CRossRoADs

15/09/2015, 19h00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD

Literary Crossroads is a new series of talks where South African writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today. The series is curated by Pumla Dineo Gqola and Indra Wussow.

Guests: Henrietta Rose-Innes (South Africa)

topic: Of nature and imagination – perceptions of nature and the supernatural in literary texts

DIGItAL ARt FestIVAL a MaZE.

09/09/2015 - 13/09/2015JOHANNESBURG

A MAZE. is a Berlin-based international brand in the field of independent games, playful media and games culture. Interdisciplinary, game-centered events and productions transcending media channels and cultures are the signature feature of A MAZE. Beside the two annual festivals in Berlin and Johannesburg A MAZE. is hosting Pop Ups in Moscow, Ramallah, Cluj, Copenhagen and Rijeka. Since 2013, A MAZE. /Johannesburg has been part of the Fak’ugesi Festival, Wits Digital Arts and cultural and knowledge exchange on an international level for the independent games and digital arts scene in Johannesburg. A MAZE. welcomes African and international game developers, digital artists, forward thinkers, entrepreneurs, and

digital activists to Johannesburg to exchange tools, skills, and ideas in the fields of independent games and playful media. The programme will include workshops, talks, parties, and a games arcade featuring the pick of African and international independent games and playful media.

As part of the Moving Africa programmes, the Goethe-Institut South Africa is inviting 8 participants from Subsahara-Africa.

FestIVAL JoBuRG ARt FAIR

11/09/2015 - 13/09/2015SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE

The Joburg Art Fair remains an important annual event on the South African art calendar, as well as within the larger art scene, where it has established itself as a significant market space focused on art from the African continent and diaspora. The Goethe-Institut has been involved since its inception in 2008, and has focused on furthering critical discourse at the fair and bringing international voices and projects to the programme.

In 2015 the Goethe-Institut supports Joburg Art Fair’s focus on film and performance art with two projects: the showing of work from the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, both as part of the central programme and in a dedicated booth, and the performance work ‘Paper Piece’ by one of the founding members of the Fluxus movement, Ben Patterson.

Joburg Art Fair 2014, © Miora Rajaonary / Goethe-Institut

ARt FILMs FRoM the InteRnAtIonAL shoRt FILM FestIVAL oBeRhAusensCReenInG DAtes tBC

For this year’s Joburg Art Fair, the Goethe-Institut has invited the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen to present a selection of international art films.

The programme will include films dealing with international yet common political issues in a broader sense. Additionally, a selection of very short video works will be presented at the booth of the Goethe-Institut. The programme is curated by Hilke Doering who has been with the Festival since 1995 in the capacity of head of the International Competition, the Children’s and Youth Cinema and the Market.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is the oldest of its kind and one of the biggest and most important platforms of the short form worldwide.

For over 60 years now, Oberhausen has been a catalyst and a showcase for contemporary developments, a forum for what are often heated discussions, a discoverer of new trends and talent. Short film is still the prime source of innovation for the art of film - the experimental field in which future cinematic vocabularies first crystallize. Today its diversity of forms, themes and approaches across the globe is greater than ever.

‘Freedom and Independence’ © Bjõrn Melhus

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‘PAPeR PIeCe’ (1960) BY Ben PAtteRson

10/09/2015 A PennY FoR YouR thouGhts (2012)THE POINT OF ORDER, BRAAMFONTEIN

11/09/2015 PAPeR PIeCe (1960)JOHANNESBURG ART FAIR, SANDTON

‘My intentions have not been to produce Art … but have instead contrived to excite that faculty or faculties responsible for integrating experience’ Benjamin Patterson

During Art Week, as part of the group exhibition Think of Number 6, Benjamin Patterson (American, b. 1934) will perform A Penny for Your Thoughts (2012) at the Wits Point of Order gallery and Paper Piece (1960) at the Johannesburg Art Fair. Patterson was an early pioneer of performance art. His Paper Piece is a score for five performers who twist, tear, shuffle, wave and otherwise manipulate a pile of paper to produce various sonic and visual effects. This iconic and influential work premiered at the first Fluxus Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1962, and it is the earliest example of a Fluxus performance to activate audience participation. Patterson’s Johannesburg performances have been made possible with support from the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg and the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.

Think of Number 6 was organized by John Peffer and Bettina Malcomess, ‘in order to share alternatives to the narrowly defined identity based art too often encouraged by the art market’.

Think Of Number 6 © Ben Patterson

FILM nIGhtGanZ nah BEI DIR

16/09/2015, 18h30GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVENUE, PARKWOOD

The lonely bank-employee Phillip follows a strict pattern of somewhat compulsive actions keeping his encounters with strangers to a minimum. When his home one day is robbed of all his belongings and he later meets the enchanting blind cellist Lina, he finds, however, he needs to start improvising and taking chances. © IMDB

English subtitles. Drinks and snacks will be provided.Please RSVP by 14 September 2015 to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org

Ganz Nah Bei Dir © Goethe-Institut

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VIsItoRs PRoGRAMMeAFRICAn GAMe DeVeLoPeRs At GAMesCoM

25/08/2015 – 09/08/2015COLOGNE, GERMANY

The Goethe-Institut is inviting 15 game developers from Subsahara Africa to visit Gamescom 2015 in Cologne.

Gamescom is the world’s largest gaming convention, with hundreds of thousands of visitors in attendance, promising over 700 exhibits from over 40 countries presenting new products.

WoRKshoP81st IFLA WoRLD LIBRARY AnD InFoRMAtIon ConGRess

15/08/2015 - 21/08/2015ICC CAPE TOWN

The Goethe-Institut, together with different libraries and library associations from Germany, will have a booth at this year’s 81st IFLA Conference to be held in Cape Town. The interactive stand will provide information on the latest projects and a library game which was conceptualized by Adam Jarrett, will be unveiled for the first time. Other projects to be presented during the conference will be:

Digital Memory Toolkit (South Africa)Kenyan Library of the Year Award (Kenya)Mobile Literacy (South Africa)

to register, please go to: http://conference.ifla.org/

WoRKshoPPAsCh CAMP “You FoR YouR CoMMunItY”

23/08/2015 - 29/08/2015 DURBAN The Goethe-Institut supports teaching German as a foreign language at

secondary schools through a

special partnership programme

called “PASCH”, with over 2000

participating schools worldwide.

This year, in Sub-Saharan Africa,

German learners at PASCH schools

will be participating in the “YOU

for your community” competition.

They are encouraged to come up

with ideas about how they can set

up projects that will benefit their

immediate surroundings.

Winners of the first round from Malawi, Namibia and South Africa will be

invited to a sub-regional camp for one week in Durban in August, in order

to develop their ideas further. They will receive professional input as to

what is needed to implement their suggested projects after their return. It

will be exciting to see who will be able to convince the jury regarding the

success of their specific project. Winners of the second round will be

invited to a PASCH camp in Germany in 2016.

ARts eDuCAtIonARtuCAtIon PRoGRAMMe

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Artucation is an arts education programme that takes place every

Wednesday. It involves a group of grade 10 and 11 learners who use

curated spaces as a starting point to initiate dialogues which comments

on learners’ social, political and personal environment. These curated

spaces allows them to talk about the exhibition, unpacking and translating

themes in their own interpretation. Discussions are continued in the

classroom. The Artucation programme therefore starts to become an “art

class outside of class” and a youth platform for expressive intervention in

arts education.

Music in Africa Goethe-Institut © Martin van der Beelen

onLIne MusIC PLAtFoRMMusIC In AFRICA

Music In Africa (ww.musicinafrica.net) is collaborating with a like-minded

project called Wired for Sound, to discover, record and train marginalised

musicians in Malawi. The project is visiting four villages in the districts of

Karonga, Mchinji, Mangochi and Nkhotakota between 20 July and 31

August 2015. The visit will culminate in the installation of solar-powered

community recording studios in the villages. As a way of showcasing

participants of this project, a professional CD with recorded material will

be produced. In September this year some of the participants will also get

an opportunity to perform for the first time at the internationally-

acclaimed Lake of Stars Festival.

LAnGuAGe CouRsesLeARn GeRMAn – JoIn us FoR GeRMAn LAnGuAGe CouRses

03/10/2015 - 09/12/2015, enRoLMent AnYtIMeGoethe-InstItut, 119 JAn sMuts AVenue, PARKWooD

early Bird special:Register before 12 September and receive a 10% discount on your course fees. Please see our terms and conditions and enrolment forms on www.goethe.de/joburg.

For more information, contact learngerman@johannesburg.goethe.org

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APPLY untIL 17 AuGust to ReALIse YouR PRoJeCt at GOEthE On MaIn In 2016!

GoetheOnMain was launched by the Goethe-Institut South Africa in May 2009 at Arts on Main as a non-commercial, artist-run project space. It continues to be an exceptional free platform in Johannesburg and has, since its inception, hosted more than fifty projects from various disciplines, including dance, theatre, visual arts, architecture, film, music and literature, from workshops to installation and performance work.

An independent committee of arts professionals meets after the yearly public call for proposals to select work to be realised. The selection criterion is above all else artistic quality, whilst maintaining sensitivity for the context and local relevance, and favouring an experimental approach. The application deadline is set for 17 August, for project realisation from December 2015 to January 2017.

For more information and application forms, please see our website www.goethe.de/joburg.

Installation shot of ‘Split Facades’ by Kutlwano Moagi, photo by © Lerato Maduna

Photo by Jonx Pillemer © Goethe-Institut

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