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Sylvie Groschatau-Phillips works as an art-therapist with refugee and displaced persons since over 15 years. Amongst other projects, she curates a recurrent series of programmes such as «Voyage Ensemble » and « AMKA » with the Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town since 2005, «Les Cartes du Corps » with the région Tarn from 2008 until 2015.

She also runs her private practice in Oude Molen eco Village and is involved with schools around the cape town peninsula as well as having initiated the « Youth at Risk art-therapy project » for the neighbouring community of Maitland garden village since 2002.

Sylvie creates Batik under the name of Syl’Batik. Her artworks, in private collections, have been exhibited in Paris, Berlin and Mexico as well taking part with fashion designers such as Christian Lacroix in Paris and Masa Mara in South Africa..

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AnZu, an artivist, shares his time between Cape Town in South Africa and the Toulouse region in France. He has worked, alone or with others, on a number of projects, exhibitions and productions in South Africa, Mexico, France and Germany.

He studied architecture at the University of Cape Town. He likes to design and produce three-dimensional works using materials such as wood, liquid glass, metals and paper.

His collaborations range from theater, film, architecture, design, exhibitions, sculpture and painting, to designing and producing public works or for private use.

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TESTIMONIALS

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“These workshops travelled between France and South Africa since 2009, followed by exhibitions where the Body Maps are associated with the diversity of the audiences they reach, create a dialog : with each crossing, the harvest becomes richer.”

“The Body Maps offer testimony beyond the seas and the oceans to that part of humanity that is common to us all, wherever we are, and wherever we come from. Body Mapping is a voyage of initiation that becomes a message : a journey both personal and universal.”

SEVERAL TESTIMONIALS FROM SOUTH AFRICA :

Art Therapy in the context of Migration and the Scalabrini Centre’s Work :

As migration to South Africa has accelerated, there have been growing tensions over the struggle for access to basic services, especially in periurban slums here poor South Africans and poor immigrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers congregate. Their influx is easily identified by locals and has led to tensions resulting in the massive xenophobic violence of 2008. This violence has continued within the Western Cape, notably with the displacement of 2500 Zimbabweans from their homes in De Doorns in November 2009 but also with numerous isolated individual incidences of violence and intimidation across Greater Cape Town.

Due to deteriorating political and economic conditions at home, it is broadly estimated that 2 million people, including Somalis, Congolese, Zimbabweans, Malawians and Mozambicans and others are in South Africa seeking work and asylum. Whilst the South African government has ratified the Organization of African Union and United Nations conventions on refugees, adopted its own refugee legislation in 1998, and reworked its immigration legislation in 2002, it has failed to implement these legal provisions as a result of many factors including lack of resource, lack of political will, lack of skills, lack of management capacity, corruption and high staff turn-over.

It is within this context that the Scalabrini Centre offers welfare and development programmes to refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and local South Africans.

DOCUMENTARIES AND INSTITUTIONAL

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Film "Women's Day, Cape Town South Africa, Artscape Theatre 2016"

Sylvie Groschatau is invited to participate in the Women's Day / Women's Day at the Artscape Theatre in Cape of Good Hope with the Women Works In Progress Group (WWIP) and a film that illustrates the struggle of women under apartheid and presents works women artists today that deal with identity and transgender.
"Thank you so much for all your hard work on this valuable piece Sylvie. It ‘screened’ in the Chandelier foyer all of Women’s Day – see picture below ! I know it was a job fraught with challenges – but just to let you know that we appreciate all the energy and care that went into it." Nancy Richards Women Zone, Artscape 2016.

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Film "Rues d’été à Graulhet"

The annual July Street Arts Festival in Graulhet (Tarn, France).

Three short films realized by Sylvie Groschatau for the Festival Rues d’été.

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Concert by the CINQ OREILLES band (FIVE EARS band) during the VOYAGE EN HÉTÉROTOPIE at l'Uzine in Graulhet (Tarn) - 18 august 2015

Exhibitions, performances, workshops, tours, discussions, shared meals, concerts were scheduled.

"Cinq Oreilles is a trio of 3 people, 3 instruments and 3 singers, so that it can play as much music as if they were 9."

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VIDÉO-ART

Film "Syl'Batik Live 2017"

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Film "Ody Saban - Les Jardins de Lilith"

Filmed by Sylvie Groschatau.

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Film "Artist Portrait : Ody Saban"

Documentary by Sylvie Groschatau, presented at the Palais de Tokyo for the festival "Art and Squats" Paris 2002.

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Ody Saban is a French artist associated with the currents of art brut, outside the standards and surreal. She was raised in a half-Jewish, half-Muslim world, studied in Catholic schools, trait that marks his artistic signature.

"Unclassifiable artist, the designer is sometimes labeled" art brut ", sometimes" surreal "or" contemporary ". If she studied at art schools, she remains under an inexhaustible imagination, a freedom médusante and unbridled inspiration. "Françoise Monnin (2012), Art Brut, New Scala Editions, 128 pages. p. 85

MOVIES AT THE PALAIS DE TOKYO
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Our thanks go to the team that carried out this work and directors who all graciously agreed to make their films available to the public at the Art Festival and Squats.

FILMS ON ART THERAPY

Film "Free Spirit" : mosaics workshop

Documentary by ETV channel about Sylvie Groschatau's work at the Valkenberg psychiatric hospital in Cape Town. She creates with the patients clay tiles that will be assembled as a mural mosaic, decorating the walls of the hospital. She initiated those art therapy workshops in 1999.