Through performance my art is able to engage directly with specific life-forms, people, places and things
Most Loyal Companion [A weekly ritual using small, pertinent objects, to mark time and face Death]. 2023, Ed 1/7, glass dome, glass flasks, small brass safety pins, 42 × 30 × 30 cm
Ariadne's Thread Performance video: ‘Ariadne's Thread’ solo installation/performance; January 2022, Everard Read, Cape Town.
[terror]tory: 2015, an assemblage of processes which develop portraits of fluid identity; identities which are unravelling and becoming. Performed at: Deleuze & Guattari in Africa Conference at UCT on 15 July 2015, Cape Town
Menditations on Self Worth - You Can’t Save Your Arse and Your Face at the Same Time: Live art performance in four parts: 1) Stitching margins of unsuccessful proposals and applications together 2) Making narratives: sitting with feelings of 'marginalisation', rejection, entitlement, denial, powerlessness, victim hood, revenge, not good enough 3) Knitting with dildos: fuck victim hood 4) Outfit: transforming limiting beliefs and attitudes, mining character. Performed at IZIKO South African National Gallery, group show Woman's Work, 1 December 2016, Cape Town
Noonoo Index Catalogue Launch, Noonoo Installation, Noonoo Performance: 13 - 15 September 2018, Maker booth, FNB Art Fair, Convention Centre, Sandton, Johannesburg
Ouma se Kind - Queensize: 2017, coming out performance; crocheting size tape with another man’s hard-on
Fatherland: 2017, A ball of yarn is produced by tearing a continuous thread from a world atlas.
Dawning New Narratives - Coldest Before the Dawn: 2017, At dawn on the Winter Solstice 2017, I sat and tore a continuous thread from the volumes C, J and R of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I did this for an hour and a half, at the Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town, making a complete seated revolution. It was a cold 5° C
Unheimlich: 2016, knitting education documents with paintbrushes, Woordfees, Stellenbosch
How Long Can I Hold Your Attention For?/ How Much Presence Can I Give You?: 2018, threading performance; threading over 5000 small silver safety pins onto spool of size tape. Performed over two days at the Contemporary Jewellery Forum Seminar and Exhibition, 13 & 14 September 2018, Jewellery Department, University of Johannesburg.
Mothertongue II: 2017, A ball of yarn is produced by tearing a continuous thread from an English dictionary. Priest, Romulus Rebus, Johannesburg
Mothertongue: 2016, A ball of yarn is produced by tearing a continuous thread from an English dictionary. Revelry Social Table, Observatory, Cape Town
Touchwood - Still Life with Woody: 2018, crochet performance; crocheting size tape with a wooden phallus, 203 Percy Osborn, Durban
Mommy What’s a Fetish? - Why Can’t I Be You?: Knitting performance; knitting yarn made from other peoples clothing with dildos.
EDUPLATION: 2016, Education documents [collected over a number of years of teaching/learning at Cape Technikon/Cape Peninsula University of Technology (district 6 campus) ] fashioned into yarn, knitting 200 stitches over 300 rows [60 000 stitches] on needles fashioned from material found on the site of the 1960’s displacement. The stitches represent the 60 000 displaced people. Knitted into 297mm x 420mm x 55 pieces. Performance; David Krut, Johannesburg
The Educator's New Clothes: 2013, [Menditations on the Education System] Public knitting performance initiating conversation about education, @ o.live chemistry of living, Kloof Road, Cape Town
The Educator's New Clothes: 2013, [Menditations on the Education System] Public knitting performance initiating conversation about education, @ o.live chemistry of living, Kloof Road, Cape Town
The Educators New Clothes is a series of ad hoc public performances which knits education documents [paper] in public spaces, generating conversations with the public about the state of education. The performances took place in and about Cape Town and Gauteng from mid 2013 to mid 2014.
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2014, performing in Soweto, Johannesburg
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2014, performing in Soweto, Johannesburg
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2014, performing in Joubert Park, Johannesburg
Exquisite Corpse: 2013, 45 cm x 30 cm x 8 cm, stitched education documents (ready to be torn into yarn), medical poster photostat, polyester yarn, board
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing on MyCiti, Salt River, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Elna, Cavendish Court, Claremont, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in taxi outside Groote Schuur, Observatory, Cape Town
Globall: 2013, 80 cm diameter, education documents, polyester thread, wood glue, centres from spools of thread, cord
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Greatmore Studios, Til it Breaks, Woodstock, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Mfuleni, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in St Georges Mall, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2016, 150 cm x 200 cm x 45 cm, installation of knitted cloths
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Central bus terminus, Parade, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Central bus terminus, Parade, Cape Town
DOINEEDTOSPELLITOUTFORYOU: 2013, yarn made from stitched and torn education documents, alphabet chart photostat, prints variable sizes
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2014, performing in Church Square, Pretoria
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Observatory, Cape Town
Tall Poppy: 2013, 120 cm x 35 cm x 35 cm, education documents, saw-off table, yarn made from education documents, support for world globe.
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Greatmore Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2014, performing in Yeoville, Johannesburg
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2016, Installation and DOINEEDTOSPELLITOUTFORYOU, Iziko South African National Gallery, Woman’s Work, group show, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing on steps of Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing outside the City Hall, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing at the foot of table mountain, Cape Town
LEARNING: 2013, yarn made from stitched and torn education documents, alphabet chart photostat
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Elna, Cavendish Court, Claremont, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Primary School, Rosebank, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing on the way to Citrusdal, Western Cape
ENOUGH: 2014, 30 cm x 20 cm, yarn made from stitched and torn education documents, alphabet chart photostat
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Mfuleni, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in O.live, Kloof Road, Cape Town
UNDER STAND: 2013, yarn made from stitched and torn education documents, alphabet chart photostat, plastic bags, saw-off table
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Long Street, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013, performing in Stanley Road Salt River, Cape Town
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2013- , performers suitcase
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2014, performing in Joubert Park, Johannesburg
THEEDUCATORSNEWCLOTHES: 2014, performing in ROOM, Braamfontein, Johannesburg
THANK YOU: 2013, balls of yarn made from stitched and torn education documents, alphabet chart photostat
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