Hotel Yeoville
Went to Yeoville to take a look at a great public art/public service project that artist Terry Kurgan has put together over last two years. It’s a website (www.hotelyeoville.co.za) and art project in the Yeoville Public Library, which draws on the immigrant experience in Yeoville for its impetus.
Basically, the site works as a resource, and also stands in for the hundreds of bits of paper affixed to walls in Yeoville with bubblegum, adverts, pleas, offers and messages left by people.
It’s a fine project, which talks to immigration, xenophobia, loneliness, and the glue of diaspora that is the internet cafe. It’s taken Terry 2 years to get it up and running, mainly because of the slack municipality – the library was finished ages ago, but only opened recently. It’s a poignant experience, see the personal testimonies of people far from home, and yet in a place which is also home.
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Great project, would be nice to have you re visit it again in a few months time and let us know how things are progressing.
Oh, we’re going to do more than that – we’re going to use the content to inform our own reporting, and push the project in a bunch of ways, including doing some video about it, and so on.
Nice. I have been involved in a few sustainability projects in and around where i work and have always found that it is one thing to set them up and get them going and another thing, often tougher, to keep them going long term.
There is nothing more demoralizing that seeing these sort of projects running out of steam and becoming rundown.
Looking forward to the video’s.
I never knew anyone would ever find any use for toilet-stall graffiti…
Sipho, That’s the best kind of graffiti, well apart from political graffiti………
Advertising. Direct advertising. Works a charm.
beautiful
thanks a lot for that
Would love to see it for myself.
I cant find it on google, whats the deal? How do we find it… if it is to be found
Hey Shiver
http://www.hotelyeoville.co.za will find it.
Totally inspiring!