Sonya Mmakopano Rademeyer

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Creative research lab  

2022

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South Africa

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Weeping the World : this performance piece is divided into 2 parts and  in direct response to the soundscape created by composer / sound artist, Franco Prinsloo. The third collaborator to the live experimental performance is poet Masai Sepuru. 

 

Part I: I attempt to ‘capture’ the moving roots.  This action speaks to notions of impossibility, of wanting to change an action, but which remains impossible to perform.

 

Part II: I open the tap attached to my performance outfit. The leaves of the Aloe plant serve as the conduits for the water to flow from my body, out and onto the floor surface. The action of ebb and flow is controlled by the way I comfort myself, so to speak. 

 

The performative action of holding-the-self and releasing the pain (for the world) is what lies at the heart of the entire performance piece. I am, by way of the work, ‘weeping for the world’ through embodied tears … through water … 

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photo credit: Boitumelo Choene / MyMalaika Photography

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