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Vumelani Sibeko
Where is the New Key?
Harlem to Brooklyn, New York
hosted by Apex Art, in New York. He returned
from the residency indelibly changed the
restrictions placed on his work by the social
conditions of home made vividly apparent.
"I felt like I was in a bottle, I could see where
I wanted to go but I couldn't get there. I felt
limited, enclosed" he notes.
The trip awoke in Vumelani a realisation of the
universality of the message present in his work.
No matter what, he knew he needed to return
to New York, doing so on 2 April 2014 with little
more than his backpack, some canvasses and
paintbrushes. His plan, a project titled Get on
the Bridge, was to experience life as a homeless
person, living on the streets of New York and
creating art as his sole means for survival. His
intention? "To bridge cultures," manifesting in
his performance of Where is the New Key?
Vumelani Sibeko passing Hoyt Street Station in Brooklyn en route to the Brooklyn Bridge. Photograph: Kqwon King.
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