Boxing Info

George Khosi 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 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 - One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten Self defence 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. The participation of others in the space makes the work.