Journal > 3th sept 2012 / Johannesburg

DONNA KUKAMA and SOWETO

On the morning we assist to a presentation by Donna Kukama about her work The Swing, a site specific performance. She mentioned the necessity of inhabit a city, of understanding location and history in the inner city. From here own experience of the city linked to here intimate story she begun to act in a specific place, to interact with it.
The swing performance stopped when Donna felt from her swing. When does the performance end ? Can the performer plan it ?

On the afternoon we met Khwezi Gule outside of the Hector Petersen Museum in Soweto. He’s been recently appointed curator of the museum, and after presenting the aim of the museum, he raised a question to the players : how to interact, as an artist, with a memorial monument ?