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2015 20, 23 & 27 May [Terror]tory, OLD WHITE MAN, ALMA MARTHA

[Terror]tory
photo: Nikki Christodoulides
[Terror]tory
This performance is still at an incubating/exploratory phase. I am gathering and using concepts from the work of Deleuze and Guattari in an attempt to understand their work and this work.
[Terror]tory explores:
1.     Clothing as representation of identity. As expression (revealing) and concealing (hiding/masking) identity.
2.     Clothing as social and cultural construction of identity.
3.     ‘Filleting’ (removing the fabric of the garment from its structure [the seams]) clothing; an act of de-territorialisation.
4.     Turning the fabric into yarn can be further de-territorialisation and re-territorialisation.
5.     A ball of yarn as a body without organs.
6.     Knitting the fabricated yarn and placing onto the body re-territorialises.
7.     Knitting and knitting-circles as a rhizomic activity.
8.     Performing all these activities live with others as a rhizomic activity.
9.     Knitting as a method to integrate [knitting looks like brain/intestines].
10.  The terror of procuring and maintaining territory. 


SFEROC

     Standing For Employment Regardless Of Colour
[    Standing for the absurdity of skin colour as a criterion for employment]
     At the beginning of 2014 I began writing up The Educators New Clothes for a master’s degree. I was doing this through a government higher education institution which I had been lecturing at, mostly part time, since 2001. My motivation for doing this was to secure my position so that I could continue teaching [design]. By August I was informed that masters is insufficient for white males as a qualification, that white men need a doctorate in order to be employed.
     At the time taxi drivers were burning buses in various townships as a reaction to enforcement of fines. This violent anger reflected the anger and frustration within me as a reaction to this now constitutional employment policy. I felt like burning down the institution. Instead I went into protest by wearing a different coloured crocheted mask each day, as I entered the campus. I donned these masks at all times, during studio work, lectures and staff meetings.
     The performance lasted two weeks. I was during a crochet module being taught in Surface and Jewellery Design.

     http://1stsurface.blogspot.com/2014/09/jewellery-surface-co-laboration.html, http://1stsurface.blogspot.com/2014/09/pink-tuesday.html, http://1stsurface.blogspot.com/2014/09/chain-mail.html, http://1stsurface.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sftrtberoc/304667736386263

I performed and work-shopped these two pieces in the following exhibition
Old White Man @ Alma Mater
There has been a strong reaction to the the exhibition, I think largely from the title. A student body pressured a participating lecturer to with withdraw his wok and participation. As a result there has been boycotting of the show.

https://www.facebook.com/events/391355364322609/


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