To deny: at the moment I am, by force of will, denying myself certain foods and drinks as way of purifying my body and constructing the state of mind I require in order to present a performance art piece on 29th October. The process I am going through brings to mind a quote by Andre [...]
In my previous post I spoke about one of my favourite movies of all time, Beetlejuice (1988). Another that I love is The Crow (1993). I mention this because I managed to get a copy of the movie on blu-ray recently and then watched it last weekend. This weekend I took the time to watch [...]
I really enjoy this quote: “Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio,” Teresita Fernández said about being an artist, “the way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote … will also become the raw material for [...]
swany - untitled performance January 2016 Today I feel all of my days, each and every one: each and every second, minute, day, week, month, year…hell, every milli-second of my existence. My meat aches, my bones creak, my muscles are stiff and sore, I move like something very brittle and fragile, like ice [...]
So! Last night we had the opening of the Pulp Fiction exhibition at the artSPACE durban Gallery, conceived by me, and birthed and curated by the owner (of the gallery) Karen Bradtke and I. Below: the artSPACE durban Gallery The participating artists were: swany, Corne Eksteen, Andrew Verster, Angie Arbothnot, Shauna Southam, Jane Alexander, Mandy Kok, [...]
In Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 movie of the same name pulp fiction is defined as: a magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. Tarantino quite literally provides the audience with the definition in the beginning of his film. This locates its genre and reflects the intertextuality of the [...]
