TIME_FRAME Durban 2010 Market Immersion

Intersections are physical, conceptual, psychological and philosophical spaces where people,
ideas and objects interact. Intersections mark meeting points in our cities and lives. The purpose of TIME_FRAME Durban / 2010 is to explore the intersections of space, place and people in the context of the 2010 World Cup from a grounded and people-centred perspective.
With funding from the Mondriaan Foundation, dala (www.dala.org.za) is hosting 11 creative practitioners for a 10 day new media experiment in Durban: Miguel Petchkovsky (Angola / Netherlands), Heiner Holtappels (Netherlands) Elena Perez Hernandez (Spain / Netherlands),
Mayura Subhedar (India / Netherlands), Walter Langelaar (Netherlands), Lilia Perez Romero
(Mexico / Netherlands), Doung Jahangeer (South Africa), Rike Sitas (South Africa), Dean Henning (South Africa), Zen Marie (South Africa) and Peter McKenzie (South Africa).

These photos depict Lilia Perez, Rike Sitas and Mayura Subhedar's immersion into the Early Morning Market. These artists fully engaged with the market's local community and integrated their investigations and interactions in their final artworks:

- “banothando” by Rike Sitas (ZA) and Lilia Pérez (MX/NL). “banothando” is a follow up of the collaboration between Mexican
artist Lilia Pérez and dala that started with the interactive
installation, Sawubona, produced in Amsterdam. It constitutes a series
of interactive portraits that use physical contact between people and
images of people as an interface to the stories gathered by Rike and
Lilia during the world cup and immediately after it when the general
enthusiasm mixed with uncertainty about the future of the market
traders’ livelihoods.

-“...city within a city reveals thousands of cities inside” by Mayura Subhedar (IND/NL).
The idea was to intervene and understand the space; also the mental space we inhabit that are more and more impervious to reality.
During this project she decided to come in to contact with two nodes in the Durban city - the Early Morning Market and the Musgrave mall. The intention here was to interact among the people around in order to understand certain social norms and ways of life which contribute to contemporary culture to be alive with expanded artistic equipments.
In this process and special context of world cup I had to also rethink and question the possibilities of my common practice to produce a work of art.