SUD Salon Urbain de Douala

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SUD Salon Urbain de Douala
Genre public art and contemporary art
Begins2007 (2007)
Frequencytriennial
Location(s) Douala, Cameroon
Years active2007, 2010, 2013, 2017
Inaugurated2007
Most recent2017
Organised by doual'art
Website http://www.salonurbaindedouala.org and http://www.doualart.org

The SUD Salon Urbain de Douala (meaning South - Urban Festival of Douala) is a triennial festival of public art and contemporary art organised in Douala, Cameroon. The festival had its first edition in 2007 and it is promoted by the art centre and cultural organisation doual'art. [1]

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History

The SUD Salon Urbain de Douala was announced during the Ars&Urbis International Symposium organised in Douala in 2005 by doual'art; the Ars&Urbis focussed on the relationship between art and urban transformations and it was created as a preparatory research gathering for the SUD. At the end of 2005 is established in Rotterdam the iStrike Foundation (officially registered in 2006), which will contribute to the start-up of the SUD and its first edition as a European office of doual'art. [2] doual'art and iStrike Foundation organize together in 2007 the Ars&Urbis International Workshop, an event to produce and collect documentation about Douala and its cultural scene, which will be published in the book Douala in Translation. A View of the City and its Creative Transformative Potentials. [3]

The first edition of the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala takes place as planned in December 2007 with the support among others of Arts Collaboratory, Mondriaan Foundation and the Prince Claus Fund. In 2008 the theme of water is chosen for the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala 2010. Meanwhile, a series of projects are developed within the frame of Liquid Projects.

In 2009 takes place the Ars&Urbis Curatorial Meeting, at the end of which Simon Njami is announced as new artistic director of the SUD 2010. In December 2010 the second edition of the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala took place in Douala.

Organisation

The SUD Salon Urbain de Douala is structured into a triennial programme which produced site-specific ephemeral and permanent artworks located in different districts and neighborhoods of the city of Douala. The programme involves all the activities of doual'art and it includes a programme of artist-in-residence, exhibitions, the recurrent event Ars&Urbis, a meeting and think tank around the relationship between art and urban transformations and of course the triennial festival meant to give visibility to the public art produced and involve a wider public.

Ars&Urbis

SUD2007 - Salon Urbain de Douala, first edition 2007

The first edition of the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala took place in Douala between 9 and 16 December 2007, and it is promoted by doual'art in collaboration with the iStrike Foundation. The festival produces performances, installations and permanent artworks.

The performances are

The public art temporary installations are

The permanent public art produced are

Conferences and Documentation

The documentation of the event is prepared during the Ars&Urbis International Workshop and it is published in the book Douala in Translation [5] presented at the opening of the festival. The first edition of the SUD 2007 is presented in the website of the Sawa people in an interview to Marilyn Douala Bell. [6]

SUD2010 - Salon Urbain de Douala, second edition 2010

Map of the public art projects presented during the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala 2010. CarteSUD2010.pdf
Map of the public art projects presented during the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala 2010.
Logo of the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala 2010.jpg

The second edition of the SUD Salon Urbain de Douala took place in Douala between 4 and 11 December 2010, and was sponsored by doual'art in collaboration with ICU art projects. [7] The festival produced performances, installations and permanent artworks.

SUD2013 - Salon Urbain de Douala, 3rd edition 2013

The 3rd edition from 3 to 10 December 2013, SUD2013, entitled "Douala metamorphoses", encouraged artists to transform the collective space, to work on the physical evolution of the common shared city sites and to liberate and create poles of encounters.

SUD2017 - Salon Urbain de Douala, 4th edition 2017

The theme of the 4th edition of the SUD2017 is "The human dimension" and will take place from 5 to 10 December 2017.

In a context of strong dehumanization and disempowerment of youth and adults, doual'art hopes by this 4th edition to mark the city with artworks which interpret the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights and to start a dialog that helps to share ideas on a better way of living together.

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References

  1. ↑ Dossier Ars&Urbis of the journal "Africa e Mediterraneo", n. 50, 2005.
  2. ↑ iStrike Foundation http://istrike.net.
  3. ↑ Douala in Translation. A View of the City and its Creative Transformative Potentials; eds. Lucia Babina and Marilyn Douala Bell, Rotterdam, Episode publisher, 2007. ISBN   978-90-5973-0717; the publication is produced by iStrike Foundation and doual'art and it is supported by the Prince Claus Fund, Mondriaan Foundation.
  4. ↑ Dossier Ars&Urbis of the journal "Africa e Mediterraneo", n. 50, 2005.
  5. ↑ Douala in Translation. A View of the City and its Creative Transformative Potentials; eds Lucia Babina and Marilyn Douala Bell, Rotterdam, Episode publisher, 2007.
  6. ↑ Festival : Douala accueille le SUD (Salon Urbain de Douala). Propos recueillis par Marion Obam in PeupleSawa.com, 09/11/2007
  7. ↑ The event is supported in 2010 by AECID, Madrid; Arts Collaboratory, The Hague; EED, Bonn; Culturesfrance, Paris; Foundation for Arts Initiatives, New-York; Cameroonian Ministry of Culture, Yaoundé.

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