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• AMAKWEREKWERE THOUGHTS

  We were lucky to have a front row seat to the drama[ or were we?]…later the events and our reaction surrounding “ 5/11”[ hot word right now] would come back to haunt us ,as we had been mindless of the fact that next door our friend, had fled to the northern suburbs out of fear for his life, as he was from Zimbabwe.

• I think I could unzip this house

  Two poems about refuge that disappeared from the “Limbo” soundtrack due to time constraints.
  by Kai Lossgott
  I think I could unzip this house
  and put it in my pocket
  and fly
  if I could fly
  from my heart
  like a swallow pumping blood
  back to you, brother
  something zips my throat
  the way you zip your hands
  in your pockets when its cold
  the way you [...]

• Limbo: Lover’s dialogue uncut. Part 1 and 2.

  DREAM VOICE OVER RECORDING PART ONE
  SEDUCTION ON THE EDGE OF HELL
  by Kai Lossgott
  (she)
  I remember as a small child thinking
  certain things could happen
  to other people
  but not to us.
  (he)
  I remember how I fled
  with my soul in my pocket
  ground black
  and we split like roads
  streets black
  black with blood and ashes from burnt corpses
  (she)
  the journey is long, and I [...]

• Pulling down the statue

  A view of the square from the top, as the dancers rehearse the pulling down of the statue, which has raised many eyebrows and comments from passers-by.

• Agent Orange

  Brian Geza showing us the height of the Somali outfit meant to be worn by Tossi van Tonder as the “Spirit of Migration”.

• Exile Group Day Whatever

  We’ve done a lot of work. We’re tired. The days are endless and we can’t sleep at night because we’re thinking about the show. We don’t see eye to eye with Brett about the majority of our work (he’s of the opinion that we’re skimming rather euphemistically over the more meaty aspects of xenophobia… great [...]

• Exile Group Day 12

  Friday 6 February
  The” spirit” is making enormous headway: I was sewing all morning and it looks like it’ll be done sometime tomorrow – I plan on coming in early to finish it off. Michael and Alfred left to return the hired pump and buy a new one from a place in Maitland, after a budget [...]

• Joking with Onze Jan

  Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr is a little known figure who fought for the independence and recognition of the Afrikaans language, statistically the youngest language in the worl, later to become the language associated with the apartheid adminstration.
  The statue dominates the square with a grim, bitter presence. Perhaps it is time and the corrosion that has [...]

• Collective vision for the performance “Limbo”

  LIMBO. Infecting the City. Collaborations 09.
  By Brian Geza, Fabrice Guillot, Kai Lossgott, Julia Raynham

  “This is the sound of authority, the blowing of hot air from parliament, the sound of not being heard. This is the feeling of homelessness, of not having access to citizenship. Your humanity is in limbo.”

  Une ma paper here? [...]

• Eating and Thinking.

  Eating and Thinking.