Performance The Big Hole counter-narrative
The ‘Big Hole’ Counter-Narrative project takes its starting point from the misguided ‘Big Hole’ experience said to characterise Kimberley. The intervention will culminate in musical, drama and performance interventions that disrupt this overwrought colonial narrative. It will unfold from an ethnographic exploration that offers a more complex, current and detailed look at the historical background, myths, oral narratives and day-to-day lived experiences of the people marginalised both historically and at present. The partnership will take place between visual artist Francois Knoetze, librettist Mkhululi Mabija, multidisciplinary Artist and Community Art Facilitator Théogène Niwenshuti. Hosted at Sol Plaatje University and facilitated by Anthropology lecturer Carina Truyts in collaboration with her students, the project offers to innovate opportunities to experiment with objects and space to surface new modes of expression, healing, and collaboration.
This project is realised within the new initiative “Goethe-Institut Project Space” (GPS). GPS is a multi-disciplinary roving project space which supports work realized all over South Africa ranging from workshops to exhibitions, events and performances; including visual art, literature, film, music, dance and theatre projects. More information on goethe.de/joburg/gps.
The Big Hole counter-narrative will take place at various venues across Kimberley