Boxing Info

George Nkosi was my instructor at his boxing ring
For two weeks Joca, Steffi and I walked to the boxing ring and trained for around 2 hours at a time every day
Sometimes in the ring and sometimes in the street
Fascination with the space- Walking from August House to Claim street every day became interaction with a dialogue in itself
Game of survival vs the game to have fun Play versus seriousness of crime in the city creates an interesting dialogue/paradox for me

The rules we make every day in order to survive The roles we play “Exercise! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten”
Self defence in a city, in THIS city of Johannesburg
The tension between experiment and safety is where the play moment begins is where the dialogue begins… inspiration for games begins within this tension. The game created out of the existing structure (the boxing site, ring, training) was a tool which I created in order to reinstate a sense of interaction and humour, perhaps into a space which is largely viewed as unstable, dangerous and hopeless. This game could not have been created on my own. The participation of others in the space was crucial to the creation of the work/play.

Testing out the site. Testing out my body within the site sometimes with others, sometimes alone. Penetrating different social spaces and collective imaginaries