Only When it Rains

On Friday April 9, Myer Taub conducted an"invisible" performance within the grounds of the JAG and in Joubert Park. This is the first of three related performances that foreground the relationships between the JAG's history and its engagements of different publics in the present. In Only When It Rains, Taub, disguised in a luminous yellow protective suit and a mask, embarked on a journey from the JAG buildings to the Joubert Park fountain. However, he was intercepted along the way by a group of children who proceded to direct his actions. They were interested in showing him 'their' Joubert Park, and took him to play on the jungle gym, to look at the "Weather Stone" (a stone whose surface regularly changes pre-empting changes in the weather) and to watch a chess match on the Joubert Park public chess boards.

Here are some photographs of Only When it Rains: