Bag Beatings

Created in residency at William Kentridge’s Centre for the Less Good Idea

Bag Beatings is an intuitive performance developed in residency, it does not have a synopsis as it was born from responding to an object and exploring its possibilities.

It is a disconcerting experiment on the boundaries of performance art, one which repeatedly evokes in the audience the feeling they are in the presence of a violent crime, before, in the next moment, reminding them of the absurdity of the basic situation. By making a lifeless object – and moreover one that has been “made for punching” – into the target, the performance explores physical violence in a way that, on the one hand, appears abstract and almost comical, and, on the other, could not be more real or unsettling.

Performances

Season 1, Centre for the Less Good Idea – Jhb, 2017

Trine 13 – Jhb, 2017

Dance Umbrella – Jhb, 2018

Live Art Festival – Cape Town, 2018

SpielArt Festival – Munich, 2019

Nyakaza Dance & Theatre Festival – Soweto 2023