Museum Saturday Any Given Sunday talk by curator Riason Naidoo

The anonymous and random public artistic interventions that comprised Any Given Sunday, which took in the city of Cape Town and its townships from 15 May – 24 July 2016, were intended to reflect on the social, economic and political tensions of the city, set against its histories and relevant sites. This covert approach underscored the central intention of the series: as a gentle and submerged way of foregrounding contested notions of visibility and acceptance in the city’s racially segregated spaces.

The work of participating visual artists—Buhlebezwe Siwani, Zanele Muholi, Gerald Machona, Sethembile Msezane, Gabrielle Goliath, Burning Museum, Hasan and Husain Essop, poet Koleka Putuma and veteran musician Madosini—all centered, in various ways, on questions of power and prejudice: structural, institutional and personal.

The chance artistic occurrences highlighted diverse public and private concerns, which constantly shifted and altered predetermined schemas of art, its institutions, and its expected publics.

Conceived around chance and random encounters with art in the public space, the Rupert Museum invited Any Given Sunday’s curator Riason Naidoo to exhibit the project in the art institution, a space the series initially rejected. Naidoo will talk to us about the influences and inspiration that gave rise to the original project in the public space and the realisation of it over a 2-month period.

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Any Given Sunday  exhibition view of The Charter by Sethembile Msewane.