Apartheid
Museum - Angus Gibson, as creative director and Desireé Markgraaff,
as producer, were involved in designing, producing and installing over 60 screens
at the APARTHEID MUSEUM.
Using
archival footage from a wide variety of international sources, Angus and Desireé
created screens based on sections of history from the era of Apartheid South Africa.
Where necessary, certain screens involved scripting and filming to create a reflection
of an accurate accounting of modern 20th century South Africa. In doing so, the
audio-visual installations recount the political upheavals beginning in the last
century and then move on to the transition from a racist state into Africa's beacon
of hope as the century turned again.
The
APARTHEID MUSEUM is a journey, not just a destination. A journey to understanding,
freedom and equality.
For
more information, please visit: http//:www.apartheidmuseum.org
Hector Pieterson Museum - The HECTOR PIETERSON museum is situated at
the site in Orlando, Soweto, where students protesting the then Nationalist government's
Afrikaans education policy, clashed with police on June 16, 1976. The museum has
as subject not only the June 16 1976 uprising, but also the events preceding and
leading up to this march. To understand the events of June 16 1976, it is necessary
to understand also the history of oppression black people faced in apartheid South
Africa.t
This
multi-media installation - as with the APARTHEID MUSEUM - draws from a wide variety
of international archival sources, to colour in for the public a history that
remained largely untold in pre-1994 South Africa.