“Interventions are temporary intrusions in a site that seek to make alternatives evident.” (Spiegl and Teckert:2006:12)

Interventions in this project- whatever shape they took- whether it was riding a bike and dancing and singing to music with a Congolese performance artist and a South African fashion designer performance artist in an old abandoned theatre to riding on the back of a bakkie with 6 others waving DRC, SA and Swiss flags around down William Nicol drive through Four Ways on the Dream Team Safari or boxing with 10 other boxers in a ring on one Saturday night in Hillbrow…


Grab Hold Tightly and Pull Down Hard

Ride your bike
Dance your dance
Tape up your face
Whilst I ride nowhere for no specific reason
But that’s just the beauty of it isn’t it?- for no specific reason
Turn the light on in your ass
Sun shines out
Silhouettes dance in their own way
Interaction challenging and invigorating
Self-defence acting dancing playing gaming repeating

All these actions for me- throughout the whole project-, in some way or another in their simplest terms “seek to make alternatives evident.” Whatever those alternatives may be- highlighting difference (nationality, space, language, race etc). Each artist I feel brought something to the table whereby they acted or intervened within a space and made something evident in their own way through action. Spontaneity is something else, which I truly enjoyed during this project.

Given a chance to interact with a different community, with a different space and to do something in that space and with those people. It is this celebration of the unknown, the possible, the potential, the unpredictable. There’s always more beginnings here than endings… By creating these situations we celebrate potential spaces through actions of ourselves or others (or both).

“Above all, perhaps, it is important to engage in an equal exchange with others that re-embodies experiences and meanings across networks of ‘locals’. In this respect the tricky spirit of invention and intervention seeks to open up new ethical landscapes, creating both new narratives and new agents” (Peluffo:2005:63).