Hotel Yeoville: Photography and Life Histories |
This initiative responds to the contemporary context of Yeoville, a neglected suburb on the eastern edge of Johannesburg’s inner city. This two-year project, conducted in collaboration with Johannesburg-based artist Terry Kurgan, is about migration and the reconfiguration of an enormous African city. It maps a residential block on either side of Page Street, between Grafton and Fortesque. This block is typical of the suburb as a whole – an agglomeration of freestanding small houses and apartment blocks in various conditions from the utterly derelict to the well-maintained – and is home to South Africans and immigrants from Central, East and West African countries. Through photography, life histories, and other forms of social research, this innovative project investigates, records, and makes visible the experiences of the people who are living there. It goes on to consider the implications of these reflections for the decisions of policymakers, city planners and designers. It will contribute to a bottom-up policy-making process – one whose content will, through the intermediation of the project, draw on the lived experience of urban residents themselves. It is hoped that the knowledge gained through this initiative will help promote urban strategies whose central concerns are the human rights and wellbeing of all city residents.
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This initiative responds to the contemporary context of Yeoville, a neglected suburb on the eastern edge of Johannesburg’s inner city. This two-year project, conducted in collaboration with Johannesburg-based artist Terry Kurgan, is about migration and the reconfiguration of an enormous African city. It maps a residential block on either side of Page Street, between Grafton and Fortesque.