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Donna Kukama presents three performances conceived of as if they were chapters in a book. These performances are part of a work in progress To be announced (2015-) which makes use of images in video, text and oral history. The parts of this “book” are not united: they take place in different places and times, though they belong to the same gesture.
Chapter C: The Genealogy of Pain inserts a history of deaths of marginalized people (often but nor always violent) onto the physical site, the Cemetery of Consolação. The stories begin in the Cemetery and spread on to other parts of the world.
Duration: 20 - 40 minutes
Chapter A: The Anatomy of History is a short history lesson given through Masekitlane (a game played by children in parts of Southern Africa – including Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana). The focus of the History lesson is not to foreground dates and events, but rather to look at bodies that underwent these events.
Duration: 30 - 45 minutes
Chapter B: I, Too functions like the credits at the end of a film, except it never quite stops. The performance, which has no real beginning or end functions as a monument of endurance, listing names of people who have endured discriminatory acts of hate (racist, sexist, homophobic, or any form of bigotry), whether publically or privately.
Duration: 3 hours