12.
That That. 2011. Zink; performance theatre, Cape Town
[recall]
I
had requested to be last on the schedule. The evening consisted of several
performances, mostly indoors, running back to back with a short interval…
- …begin before Josh Ginsburg ends his performance.
- simultaneously activate my devices whilst dismantling and setting aside his setup.
- replace his projector with laptop, open and start the movie: a film of hands step-and-repeating the same action over and over.
- pop down his projection screen and clear the stage.
- lit-up by cellphone glow, standing at the back, scroll through folders, press play and place the phone on the ledge: a clip set on loop, horn player practicing his cords pre-recorded outside studio window.
- open the rear stage door letting the light flood in.
- leave. Out the door, into the light and under a unusually tall ladder which has a spotlight strapped to its head. Walk around the building past Belinda’s projected movie and Linda’s live horse and go observe the audience from the front main entrance.
- local rude-boy Ant Strack reacts to the perseverating cacophony and storms out. Relief. The potential of an ending.
- everyone leaves to being beginning a new phase. Outside the theatre, the evening and life, a horse and the mountain, John’s studios and stuff. Freedom from the theatre and the dictatorship of the artist. Time seems more restrainable outside. Free to start. (2011-11-19)
