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Radiotopia formed part of the 2002 Ars Electronica Festival and Kunstradio in Linz, Austria. Johannesburg-based Trinity Sessions were South African partners to the festival and commissioned Public Eye to co-ordinate a contribution to Radiotopia from Cape Town. Public Eye member and sound artist James Webb conducted a workshop and collated contributions from a diverse range of artists for this event which explored radio as the most globally accessible medium for communication and information exchange.

‘Upstream’ was an exhibition based in Hoorn and Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 2002. The exhibition commemorated the 400th anniversary of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC). Participants in the project all came from countries on the company’s original itinerary – The Netherlands, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Indonesia, China and South Africa. Public Eye was contacted in order to provide a short-list of appropriate participants from South Africa. From these artists Johannesburg-based Senzeni Marasela was chosen. She exhibited works in both venues of the exhibition.

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Houston-based artist/ activist Rick Lowe paid a brief visit to Cape Town in 2002 where Public Eye arranged for him to deliver a lecture and slideshow at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Lowe is best known for the Project Row Houses, an initiative in which 22 historic slave houses were saved from demolition through a community-based programme of restoration. While some of the houses function as temporary homes for single mothers, others are used as venues for art installations. Lowe is a board member of the Rice Design Alliance at Rice University and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Design School.

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Public Eye was invited by Deirdré Prince, education officer of the Robben Island Museum, to undertake a project with 20 teenagers from South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. This week-long project in 1999 involved developing site-specific work considering the issue of human rights.

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Artist Terry Kurgan, who had conceived and produced her photographic work ‘Maternal Exposures’, installed the work permanently in the Mowbray Maternity Hospital in 1999. She was able to obtain funding from the Cape Town City Council for this through Public Eye’s status as a Section 21 company.

Article on the artist’s site

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