SA: Goethe-Institut announces 2023 GPS recipients

GPS is a multidisciplinary roving project designed to support work realised all over the country – ranging from workshops to exhibitions, events and performances – including music, dance, visual art, literature, film and theatre projects.

GPS will grant financial support or seed funding of up to R70 000 ($4 000) per project to the successful artistic projects.

“This year’s proposals showed a large interest in social development through art based projects,” the GPS jury said. “Given the nature of the GPS programme, we felt it important to support projects that placed an emphasis on social engagement rather than social development by choosing projects that showed a strong commitment to developing art of a high standard. 

“The selection of the projects for the 2023 programme reflects the need of artists across disciplines to engage in the questions most pressing in their worlds, without needing to carry the expectation of changing the world as this is a very high burden to place on artists alone.”

The 2023 Goethe-Institut announces 2023 GPS recipients are:

• Ményatšô Mathôlê (R E-KA'O-FELA) – Free State.
• Amanina (Rural Women Creative Writing and Storytelling) – Eastern Cape.
• Xolani Ngesi, Fikile Mahola (I Am a Father ) – Eastern Cape.
• Contemporary Archive Project ([re]present) – KwaZulu-Natal.
• Marikana, Ten Years On: Xolobeni Outreach – Eastern Cape.
• Malcolm Nhleko and Dr Kathryn Olsen (Legends Speak Workshops) – KwaZulu-Natal.