specialist service providers

AAW! is a specialist project management company working in the arts and creative industries in South Africa and internationally. AAW offer management and operational services across the spectrum of arts disciplines, with a particular focus on public art practice and the integration of art into neighbourhood and district development, urban regeneration and architecture. AAW’s work includes artists' brief development and commissioning, research, strategic development, operational planning, systems development, fundraising and project management.

AAW! has developed a network of artists working in different sectors throughout South Africa and internationally. The network spans urban and rural practitioners, ranging in age, gender and profile. Young, up and coming artists are constantly identified and commissioned as are more experienced professionals working in South Africa and globally.

Key People:
Lesley Perkes
Monna Mokoena

Contact
Phone: +27 (0) 11 6145500
Mobile: +27 (0) 83 654 2009
Fax: +27 (0) 86 684 3815
Email: lesley@artatwork.co.za

Physical Address:
61 Bellevue Street
Troyeville
2094

Postal Address:
PO Box 53459
Troyeville
2139
Johannesburg
South Africa

Contacts
Telephone: (011) 482 4444
Fax: (011) 482 3134

Phyiscal Address:
44 Stanley Ave
Milpark
Johannesburg
2001

Website: www.44stanley.co.za

Hobbs’ personal artistic interest lies in the urban environment and public art interventions, and Neustetter’s in the electronic arts and expanding notions of connectivity and networks. The Trinity Session is strongly defined by its exchanges with Johannesburg, in relation to Africa and similar developed / developing world contexts. This position determines their attitude to local and global debates, networks and partnerships with a view to the survival and sustainability of the visual arts industries.

By acting as correspondents and consultants, and approaching the work process from a network and accommodation / exchange of information angle, the purpose of their working dynamic is to produce in a cross-platform multidisciplinary way with artists, institutions, brands and service providers.

Current key processes are focused on urban regeneration through public art, creativity as commodity through consultation processes, local industry strategies and development through relationships with cultural neighbours, international art networks and strategic global partnerships. Other recent processes include retail and art experiments and digital art development through digital network building.

Republic / re-publication

Exhibitions, projects and events at The Gallery Premises at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre were managed and curated by The Trinity Session from 2004 until 2008. The shift away from the gallery space to focus more exclusively on public space hails an important new phase in their collaborative artistic explorations. Although by no means newcomers to the environment of public space, The Trinity Session sees the move away from the traditional gallery environment as a move towards refining prior practice insofar as it would allow them to more effectively engage with the “re-publication” of the multi-layered fabric of life that exists in the public sphere of Johannesburg. Apartheid encouraged the privatisation of public space, with the result that works from that era presupposed a non-existing consensus among the users of public space – rendering the work culturally exclusive. The Trinity Session’s work methodology, however, seeks to explore the public as a multi- and inter-cultural collection of representatives of various social groups and mentalities. In terms of their multi-tiered collaborative approach to the relationship between art and the community, they seek to build a platform of interaction between artists and society that can give rise to democratic expression in public space. Their aim is not merely to create art in relation to urban development in the City of Johannesburg, but to challenge preconceived relationships between the artist and the public and to explore the networks that arise between art and the public space. The move also reflects a more focused integration of their personal artistic interests, as the public space now becomes aligned with the idea of the public domain in the virtual-community sense of the word. Taking its cue from the definition of the public domain (a space of exchange between different cultures and interests), public space – through the implementation of art – could now become a domain of exchange in its own right.

The Trinity Session has contributed to teaching programmes at institutions, including the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town, Vega School of Brand Communications and the International School of New Media (DE), and has published and consulted widely. Publications include the Taxi and Fresh series’ (artists’ monographs), Fine Art Forum, Tester and Leonardo (among others), as well as various exhibition catalogues and journals. Consultation, research, presentation and workshops have included various technology companies, the advertising industry, developmental organisations and international networks. These include Spier, Moyo, Red Bull, MTN, Cell C, International Labour Organisation, UNESCO and TBWA, among others.

Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter’s artistic collaborations fall under the name of Hobbs/Neustetter (H/N).

Contacts
Contact Person: Stephen Hobbs
Mobile: 082 897 7498
Email: ts@onair.co.za
Email: sh@onair.co.za

Physical Address: 39 Gwigwi Mwrebi Street Newtown Johannesburg South Africa

Contact Person: Marcus Neusetter
Mobile: 082 929 1569
Email: mn@onair.co.za

Website: www.onair.co.za
 

Launched in 2001 as a response to a gap in the rapidly maturing art market, Art Source South Africa handles an array of activities within the sector from fundraising and strategy development to curation, project development and management.

It services a range of clients and interfaces between the worlds of cultural development at community and individual levels, corporate sponsors and sources of public donor funding.

Specialising in strategic project development and career management of fine artists, Art Source South Africa has undertaken projects as diverse as contemporary visual art exhibitions and rural craft development projects, as well as initiated local and international artist exchanges which often include community outreach programmes.

Art Source South Africa also operates as agents to the artists it works with and are dealers in contemporary South African art.

More recently, Art Source South Africa has expanded its activities to include specialised marketing, PR and communications for the arts, culture and development sectors. Its services include strategy development to the implementation of all or select aspects of a project campaign, such as above the line, below the line, through the line, experiential marketing, stakeholder and media communications.

Art Source cc is level 4 compliant with regard to BBBEE as an Exempted Micro Enterprise (EME).

Contacts
Physical Address: 43d Newport Road, Parkwood 2196 Johannesburg South Africa
Postal Address: P.O. Box 569 Rivonia 2128

Website:  www.artsourcesouthafrica.co.za

We believe and support the importance of artists in the creation and reflection of a South African historical and cultural perspective.

Akani Creative Consulting's offers the following services:

• Cataloguing of private and corporatecollections.

• Advising on acquiring contemporary fine art objects as part of an investment portfolio for both corporate and private clients.

• Conceptualizing and hosting contemporary fine art exhibitions for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Contacts
Office Number: 078 341 6608
Fax: 086 516 2994
Email: info@akanicc.co.za
Physical Address: 20 Ibis Manor Beretta Street Wilgehewel

Website: www.akanicc.co.za

Contacts
Tel: (012) 362 4975
Mobile: 072 444 0696

Physical Address: Corner South and Ducan Street Hatfield Pretoria South Africa

Website: www.onesmallseed.net

Trace is a team of professionals in the field of heritage, research, exhibition and design. Trace works with clients on all aspects of exhibitions, publications and public programmes, including strategy, planning, design and implementation of projects, institutions and public spaces. 

Trace is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team drawn from journalism, film and television, fine art, architecture, education and history. Trace has established itself as a specialist agency for “extracting the stories hidden beneath the surface of South Africa and bringing them to life”. Trace has been engaged in the development of a number of major public artworks programmes and exhibition design projects across South Africa.