DUNDEE : FAREWELL

The night before leaving Dundee, we returned to the 97 Mckenzie street site with projector and screens in tow. The screens were installed over the […]

2011-04-01

DUNDEE : SONI PROJECT SPACE

For the final two weeks of our project we moved our gallery/workshop space into three stores in the Soni’ building in downtown Dundee (See the previous […]

2011-03-09

DUNDEE : SONI’S BUILDING

The Soni building (corner of Wilson and McKenzie Street) was established in 1902 and has housed the Soni family and their jewellery store ever since. […]

2011-03-05

DUNDEE : URBAN INGENUITY

While researching parking meters in Dundee, these are some of the interesting alternative uses we found.                   […]

2011-02-26

DUNDEE : PARKING METERS

The parking meter was invented in 1935 by Carl C. Magee in Oklahoma City and first made an appearance in Dundee in 1961. The parking […]

2011-02-26

DUNDEE : CURFEW BELL

Throughout the Oral History component of the project, the Dundee Curfew Bell was mentioned several times. While Dundee has extensive archival records surrounding the Anglo-Zulu […]

2011-02-16

DUNDEE : TRAFFIC CIRCLE

Amongst the many humorous phrases and idioms, we encountered during our time in Dundee: “Never trust a town that has more churches than bars” proved […]

2011-02-09

DUNDEE: STREETLIGHTS

  To draw attention to each one of our performance sites, Mark Donaldson, head of electricity at the Endumeni Municipality, agreed to send out his […]

2011-02-04