After more than year’s hiatus, the 4th Softserve took place on 22 February 2003. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor YDETAG, it’s called YDESIRE after the event’s main sponsor Young Designer’s Emporium (YDE). No less a Public Eye event than the previous three, it was curated by artist and Public Eye member James Webb, who played a major role in YDETAG. He was been joined by Kim Stern, a Michaelis graduate responsible for ‘Aisle 5’, the art/ shopping event which took place in Cape Town in 2002. The event moved from its usual home, the South African National Gallery, to the Castle of Good Hope. This much larger venue was certainly more loaded, both ideologically and aesthetically, and provided a variety of spaces from its tranquil courtyards to its damp dungeons…
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