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Wednesday 11:00 - 16:00 Thursday 11:00 - 16:00 Friday 11:00 - 16:00 Saturday 11:00 - 16:00

POOL, Green Point Park, East Gate Entrance, Corner Vlei Road and Helen Suzman Boulevard, Cape Town (2026)

POOL is an arts organisation committed to supporting artists and curators by working closely and commissioning new work. POOL champions emerging practice and experimental artist and curator-led work and research initiatives.

10/05/2024

It's the final two days to view the group exhibition, Things take time, time takes things!

Join us this Saturday for the finissage starting from 3pm for a happening with Amy and Neil Rusch, followed by a walkabout with participating artists and curators, ending with a Dead Symbols rehearsal with artist in residence Vusumzi Nkomo, and Fernando Damon and Rowan Smith.

Participating artists include: Dineo Seshee Bopape, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Thato Makatu, Maja Marx, Mitchell Gilbert Messina, Jody Paulsen, Amy Rusch, Jonah Sack, Inga Somdyala, and Vusumzi Nkomo as artist in residence.

POOL is hosted at Field Station which is a pilot initiative enabling transdisciplinary arts-based programming at the intersection of art and nature, community and critical urbanism. It is realised by the City of Cape Town Arts and Culture and Green Point Park.

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the City of Cape Town, Field Station and the National Arts Council South Africa Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme.

Thanks to Matt Slater for the documentation

07/05/2024

Please join us this Thursday at the L***a, 18:00 for 18:30 - 19:30, for a film programme curated by Mitchell Gilbert Messina drawing on film that informed Messina’s recently commissioned film installation, Noon Gun, for the exhibition, Things take time, time takes things.

Noon Gun (Mitchell Gilbert Messina, 2024)

A city’s citizens live under the looming threat of a gun that is fired at noon every day.

Powers of Ten (Charles and Ray Eames, 1977)

Beginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.

Babfilm/Scenes with Beans (Ottó Foky, 1976)

An extra-terrestrial arrives on a planet inhabited by beans and observes their daily lives, including a traffic accident, farming, a football match, and the launch of a spaceship.

The Black Tower (John Smith, 1987)

A man finds himself haunted by a mysterious black tower in London that appears to follow him wherever he goes.

The screening is free and all are welcome, though seating is limited please DM or to reserve a seat.

This programme is supported by the National Arts Council South Africa Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme.

02/04/2024

POOL is pleased to present Things take time, time takes things, a group exhibition co-curated by Amy Watson and Bella Knemeyer. The exhibition considers questions of duration, place and memory across social, political and ecological contours. Its title refers to hidden stories, whether hidden in plain sight, just beneath the surface, and etched into bedrock. These stories speak of hidden interiors, of memories, of personal archives, and the many trade-offs that come with them: the time taken to evolve, for dust to settle, to develop a sense of perspective, to rewild a landscape, to establish common ground. Or conversely, how time forgets, conceals, weathers and erodes a full story. Through ten installations within the gallery and the surrounding park, the exhibition includes works that surface landscape and its relationship with time, engaging different temporalities including; the recent past, the time of home, celestial time, arctic and geologic time, a daily cannon metronome, the annual rings of a tree and the incremental growth of lichen. Working through site specificity and placemaking, many participating artists have worked in-situ to explore experimental process-driven work, allowing artworks to reveal themselves durationally, and through interruption. Manifest in the colour matching of landscapes, field recordings, support structures and the maquette in abeyance, anthotypes developing in sunlight, and inscriptions made by wind.

Participating artists include: Dineo Seshee Bopape, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Thato Makatu, Maja Marx, Mitchell Gilbert Messina, Jody Paulsen, Amy Rusch, Jonah Sack, Inga Somdyala, and Vusumzi Nkomo as artist in residence for the exhibition duration.

The exhibition is made possible through the support of the City of Cape Town, Field Station, National Arts Council South Africa Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme.

12/02/2024

On Confluence and Recurrence
Exhibition Walkabout
with Abri de Swardt and Saarah Jappie
Saturday 17 February, 11:00

To See with the Ears and Speak with the Nose
Reading Cycle II
with Abri de Swardt and Sinethemba Twalo
Saturday 24 February and Sunday 3 March, 11:00
RSVP [email protected]

The river asks the same question at a different time
Screening Programme
Saturday 2 March, 17:30 for 18:00

To See with the Ears and Speak with the Nose is the second iteration of a reading cycle initially commissioned by POOL and Oceanic Humanities for the Global South, WiSER in 2019. The cycle traces the echogenic qualities of water, its reverberating hums, its fluidity, its capacity for saturation, which impel a becoming (other)wise. Through textual immersion in which boundaries between literary and theoretical genres become porous and dissipate against and within each other, the cycle enunciates wetness as a conduit for the affective capacities of words. The title points to the sensorium of cetaceans, suggesting a trans-position of our own orientations to embrace hydromechanics as a gesture of (dis)solution, a streaming of bodies, and a pooling of temporalities. De Swardt and Twalo invite attendees to consider water as non-neutral, as a q***r archive, as a social witness and force.
The new cycle specifically turns its focus to fluvial ecologies – rivers, their confluences and tributaries, canals and embankments, their estuaries and mouths – as hybrid, mutable and transitional hydro-commons. Through situated reading and conversation, the cycle asks how do we listen to, orientate ourselves towards, become literate in, and coexist with, rivers?
RSVP to [email protected]

The River asks the Same Question at a Different Time is a screening of recent moving-image works by local and international artists grappling with how bodies of water communicate, are instrumentalised in, and transform, geopolitical conditions of place. The sequential flow, plural chronologies, and narrative mobility inherent in moving-image correspond to the very materiality of water.

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Green Point Park, East Gate Entrance, Corner Vlei Road And Helen Suzman Boulevard
Cape Town

Opening Hours

Wednesday	11:00 - 16:00
Thursday	11:00 - 16:00
Friday	11:00 - 16:00
Saturday	11:00 - 16:00

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http://www.pool.org.za/

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