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This art piece deals with traces of memory: aspects of learning and unlearning: and the mendable nature of remembrance. Part of my practice, currently, involves me engaging with learning – more specifically self-learning, and revising my knowledge of my own cultural heritage. I normally use my own body and my own personal life experiences in […]
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This installation piece navigates the notion of living as a form of death, termed ‘necropolitics’ by Achille Mbembe. This is a communicative piece, which is in monologue towards the dead, historically colonised, coloured; mixed-race; indigenous; traded slaves; and political prisoners of South African heritage. It re-counts acknowledgement predominantly of Namaqua culture, and Cape Coloured Afrikaans […]
Read more "Die lewe en die krag van die dood"