ABSTRACT

Fragments of Encounters is a performance-installation based research project that was first performed at the Infecting the City public art festival in 2019 in Cape Town. The project was build around a personal archive (over 150 hours of audio recorded material), comprised of fragments of everyday encounters and conversations with South Africans, Zimbabweans, Congolese, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Somalians, Tanzanians, Romanians, Roma and others, who prefer to remain anonymous, and memories of my own. The archive assumes a double role; it is both a mnemonic instrument and a geography of my encounters. The work recreates a mixture of cultures, identities and geographies that need to be decoded and interpreted as way to make meaning. One needs to learn and to un-learn at the same time in order to adapt to unfamiliar contexts.

摘要

Fragments of Encounters 是一个基于表演装置的研究项目，于 2019 年在开普敦的感染城市公共艺术节上首次演出。该项目围绕个人档案（超过 150 小时的录音材料）构建，包括与南非人、津巴布韦人、刚果人、尼日利亚人、巴基斯坦人、索马里人、坦桑尼亚人、罗马尼亚人、罗姆人和其他人的日常相遇和对话的片段，他们更喜欢保持匿名，和我自己的回忆。档案馆承担着双重角色；它既是助记工具，也是我遭遇的地理学。该作品再现了文化、身份和地理的混合体，需要对其进行解码和解释以产生意义。一个人需要同时学习和不学习，以适应不熟悉的环境。