doung doung durban based artist architectdoung@dala.org.za
www.dala.org.za
now clock
The ‘now clock’ wins competition after a month of deliberation. The team of judges from the Old Mutual Investment Group Property Investments finally came to their decision and i was awarded the contract for a R500,000.00 public sculpture in Rosebank. The invitation to participate in this close competition came from the MOMO Gallery. Six artists [...]
CityWalk
I arrived in Durban, South Africa to study architecture in 1992. By 1999, when I graduated, I had already developed a passion for space, its presence and more importantly its representation in absence. However the conditioning nature of society beckons the individual to recognise primarily the seen, the tangible and the factual realities of life [...]
manifesto
architecturewithoutwalls i am space, i am everywhere and nowhere. my body is architecture. i am scape. the threshold, my home. i believe in space rather than time; i believe in people rather than capital. People in space make place, however these spaces are not neutral and come inscribed with power. A power that affects not [...]
architecturewithoutwalls
I do not believe in the restriction of categorisation. As a Mauritian-born, Creole,male of Indian decent living in South Africa I experience the weight of over-determination. Yet I am neither ‘the one’ nor ‘the other’. Thus my passion for ‘in-betweeness’ is both personal and political. I shall therefore begin my discussion of the concept of [...]
urban amnesia
It is the intention of project [urbanamnesia] to explore the notion of memory through the binary concepts of ‘remembering’ and ‘forgetting’.Conceptually it engaged with emptiness as expressed physically, through the space, and spiritually through the people who occupy it. This work both recognised bodies in sites and bodies as sites. Urbanamnesia focused on specific vacant [...]
21st century shack
To the inhabitants of First World spaces the squatter camp or informal settlement is associated with poverty and underdevelopment. The shacks themselves are eyesores to refined sensibility; the people that live there are uncomfortable reminders that wealth comes at a price. 21st century shack is an ongoing investigation which challenge that perception. It presents a [...]