The Trinity Session is a
contemporary art
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production team directed by
Stephen Hobbs and
Marcus Neustetter.
The Trinity Session is defined by exchanges with their home-city
Johannesburg
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South Africa
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, in relation to Africa and similar developed / developing contexts. Key activities include temporary interventions and performances, in addition to producing and curating large scale public art programmes. Concerned with context specific technology applications and site-specific social practices, the artistic output of Hobbs/Neustetter, guided by issues of urban decay, xenophobia and public access, results in live actions and video documentation works.
Some of the most recent works of The Trinity Session include: ''Temporary But Permanent Projects'' a Survey exhibition at Museum of African Design, Johannesburg (2015) and ''at The Athenaeum'' in Port Elizabeth (South Africa, 2014); Renaming the City, commissioned artwork for the Ars
Electronica Festival in Linz (Austria, 2015); ''Exquisite Corpse'', a video performance presented at the Subtle Tech festival in Toronto (Canada, 2014);'' Platform 1'', a public intervention with the Swallows Foundation, GIFT Festival in Gateshead (United Kingdom, 2013); ''Bessengue B’etoukoa'' a public intervention in Douala commissioned for Across the board: ''Public Space/ Public Sphere'' curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose (Tate Modern, London), for the SUD – Salon Urbain de Douala 2013 (Cameroon); ''ATAYA'', a public performance France/South Africa Cultural Seasons in St Ouen and Paris (France, 2013); ''Fluid Stop'', a site-specific installation and public projection at Greenhouse, St Etienne (France).
Bibliography
* Andrew Lamprecht, The Trinity Session in Sophie Perryer, 10 years 100 artists: art in a democratic South Africa, Struik, 2004, p. 374
* Penny Siopis, The Space Between in "Art South Africa", vol 1, n. 3, Autumn 2003.
* Mary Stuart, Bursting with Ideas for Arc in "The Sunday Independent, 04/07/2004.
* Njami, Simon. Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent. Jacana Media, 2007, p. 247.
* Cremona, Vicki Ann, Rikard Hoogland, Gay Morris, and Willmar Sauter. Playing Culture:
* Conventions and Extensions of Performance. Rodopi, 2014, p. 101.
* The South African Art Information Directory: The SAAID Art Directory. Global Art Information, 2010, p. 15
* Hopkins, D., and K. Solga. Performance and the Global City. Springer, 2013.
* Lossau, Julia, and Quentin Stevens. The Uses of Art in Public Space. Routledge, 2014. P. 118
* Pensa, Iolanda (Ed.) 2017. Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala. Genève: Metis Presses.
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