About the project
IN RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT COVID ISOLATION, MY RECENT MOVE FROM MY PLACE OF BIRTH IN SOUTH AFRICA TO A SOCIALLY DISTANCED VIENNA AND WITH THE NEED TO CONNECT TO BOTH PLACES, I WELCOMED COLLABORATIONS IN A SEARCH FOR SOLIDARITY.
Marcus Neustetter
ACTIVATING NELSON MANDELA PLATZ IN VIENNA AND CELEBRATING NELSON MANDELA DAY 2020
SADOCC - Austria
CO-PRODUCED VIRTUAL PERFORMANCES ACROSS BORDERS
PIAD - South Africa
JOURNEY
ACTION 1 - survey
ACTION 2 - temporary interventions
ACTION 2 - temporary interventions
Marcus Neustetter and John Ntsepe do a Survey of Nelson Mandela Platz, Vienna
ACTION 2 - temporary interventions
ACTION 2 - temporary interventions
ACTION 2 - temporary interventions
Nina Herzog and Helena Hornung connect to people near Nelson Mandela Platz
ACTION 2 - call to action
ACTION 2 - temporary interventions
ACTION 2 - poster project 1
Call for images of windows
ACTION 2 - poster project 1
ACTION 2 - poster project 1
ACTION 2 - poster project 1
Window collage on Nelson Mandela Platz, Vienna
ACTION 2 - poster project 2
ACTION 2 - poster project 1
ACTION 2 - poster project 2
Beaded Nelson
Mandela quotes
ACTION 2 - poster project 3
ACTION 2 - poster project 1
ACTION 2 - poster project 2
About Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela Platz and Sadocc
ACTION 3 - online studio
ACTION 3 - proposal for 4 cities
ACTION 3 - proposal for 4 cities
Virtual encounters on human rights - On South Africa's Youth Day - 16 June 2020 - participants from across South Africa and Vienna joined online to speculate about our Human Rights of the Future. This extended into further working sessions until the 18 July 2020.
ACTION 3 - proposal for 4 cities
ACTION 3 - proposal for 4 cities
ACTION 3 - proposal for 4 cities
Following creative online sessions, where participants from across South Africa and Vienna joined to speculate about our Human Rights of the Future, a virtual proposal for public interventions of the designed symbols manifested on Google Earth.
ACTION 4 - call
ACTION 3 - proposal for 4 cities
ACTION 5 - Nelson Mandela Day
Marcus Neustetter invites Roben Mlauzi to call out on the Nelson Mandela Platz, Seestadt, Vienna in an attempt to activate and reimagine this public space.
ACTION 5 - Nelson Mandela Day
ACTION 5 - 3 cities in South Africa
ACTION 5 - Nelson Mandela Day
18 July 2020 - Nelson Mandela Day.
With less stringent lockdown rules in Vienna, SADOCC celebrated Nelson Mandela Day on Nelson Mandela Platz in Vienna and becomes the host for a collective Solo Solidarity Future action and the reading of the quotes by Nelson Mandela that have been interpreted into beaded artworks by beaders in Nelson Mandela Bay.
More about the day on: https://www.sadocc.at
ACTION 5 - 3 cities in South Africa
ACTION 5 - 3 cities in South Africa
ACTION 5 - 3 cities in South Africa
18 July 2020 - Nelson Mandela Day.
The resulting designed symbols, representing the collaborative speculations about our Human Rights of the Future, were presented on the same day in 3 cities in South Africa as an act of connection and solidarity. Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay and Soweto saw symbolic and meaningful moments of reflection and solidarity in a very difficult time in South Africa. The 4th iteration on the same day was in Vienna on the Nelson Mandela Platz, Seestadt as part of the Nelson Mandela Day celebrations.
ACTION 5 - response
ACTION 5 - 3 cities in South Africa
ACTION 5 - 3 cities in South Africa
18 July 2020 - Nelson Mandela Day.
While participants from Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay and Soweto presented symbolic and meaningful moments of reflection and solidarity in their cities, Marcus Neustetter responded in Vienna on the Nelson Mandela Platz, Seestadt as part of the Nelson Mandela Day celebrations organised by SADOCC with Nina Herzog and Helena Hornung. This was Neustetter's attempt to connect to his community in South Africa and a provocation for a meaningful development for the Nelson Mandela Platz in Seestadt, Vienna.
Collaborators
Aja Marneweck (Cape Town)
Bryan Wintermeyer (Port Elizabeth)
Calib Geldenhuys (Port Elizabeth)
Callen Slater (Port Elizabeth)
Ciara Struwig (Johannesburg)
Debbie Wintermeyer (Port Elizabeth)
Helena Hornung (Vienna)
Huberta Neustetter (Vienna)
Jacques Nel (Still Bay)
John Ntsepe (Vienna)
Lerato Motau (Soweto)
Manzikazi Scota (Bloemfontein)
Miné Kleynhans (Bloemfontein)
Nina Herzog (Vienna)
Noa Solomon (Port Elizabeth)
Nozinhle Ncube (Port Elizabeth)
Paula Von Blerk (Port Elizabeth)
Peter Wintermeyer (Port Elizabeth)
Reginald Milanzi (Bloemfontein)
Reitumetse Lebatla (Bloemfontein)
Roben Mlauzi (Vienna)
Rustum Manuel (Vienna)
Sifiso Teddy Mhlambi (Bloemfontein)
Stone Mabunda (Soweto)
Sylvia Chaka (Bloemfontein)
Wayne Reddiar (Pietermaritzburg)
Zivanai Matangi (Johannesburg)
