Open call for the Joburg Fringe 2011

the 2011 Joburg Fringe

runs 22-25 September 2011

opening party 21 September from 6:00pm

behind South Point Head Quarters on Melle Street

500 square meters in a former parking garage

for more information email Claudia:

joburgfringe@gmail.com

Dear gallerists artists exhibitors art collectives curators and other exhibitionists

- art associations, art institutions, art collectors, art collections, museums

THE SHORT VERSION : You are invited to submit work for the fourth Joburg Fringe which opens on wednesday 21 September 2011, a day ahead of the JoburgArtFair. It will run till 25 September.

Venue is Braamfontein This year we are offering stands of 16 square metres including lighting, security, invitations for the opening party, flyers, a floor layout plan, an online catalogue - aiming for hard copy too, and plenty of expertise enthusiasm and energy !

Cost is R2000. Bigger spaces are also available: speak to us.

To submit work please send us an email to joburgfringe@gmail.com with your contact details, a short cv, a short description of your project and some examples of work you would like to exhibit.

(photos no bigger than 72dpi please)

The venue of the 2011 Joburg Fringe is finalized and will be c/o and thanks to, South Point, one of Braamfontein's major Fixer-Uppers. In an old ship-like turn of the century parking garage: perhaps formally a coach house. One can still identify the old demarkations on the history-patina-d flooring.

500 square meters on ground floor level with access to the cafes, bars and restaurants on and around the Grove in front of the Hotel Lamunu.

What is?

The Joburg Fringe is an independent art fair and organisation.

It is an artists' initiative run on high enthusiasm and a low budget.

The first fringe show was staged in 2008 as a collaboration between Fouad Asfour, Sharlene Khan and Claudia Shneider, who were keen to create a fringe show for the first art fair in Africa: JoburgArtFair. They collaborated with the Dead Revolutionaries Club and the Afrika Cultural

Centre on the first fringe show: Esikhaleni – Spatial Practices. It included a curated show and

four galleries from the vanguard of the South African art scene.

In 2009 the name of the Joburg Fringe was registered. That year Claudia Shneider of the Joburg Fringe staged a pre-exhibition courtesy of Right on the Rim Project Saloon and Jonathan Liebmann in the raw building site of Arts on Main.

In 2010 the Joburg Fringe assembled a surreptitious show of VIDEOart! by local

and foreign artists. The show subsequently travelled to Leipzig, Munich and Berlin.