Biographies
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.