‘This song is for…’ Recurring sonic disruption, recalling rape victims’ ’broken records’. The South African artist Gabrielle Goliath presents a series of dedicated songs chosen by survivors of rape as her contribution to the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize. #PinchukArtCentre #fgap2019 @futuregenerationartprize #fgap #GabrielleGoliath #contemporaryart #artperformance #musicperformance #womenagainstviolence #rapevictim #Kiev #Kyiv #ukraine (at PinchukArtCentre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Buvf-ojF_IH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i014p4pm7lqd
‘This song is for…’ Recurring sonic disruption, recalling rape victims’ ’broken records’. The South African artist Gabrielle Goliath presents a series of dedicated songs chosen by survivors of rape as her contribution to the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize. #PinchukArtCentre #fgap2019 @futuregenerationartprize #fgap #GabrielleGoliath #contemporaryart #artperformance #musicperformance #womenagainstviolence #rapevictim #Kiev #Kyiv #ukraine (at PinchukArtCentre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Buvfy7VlXBK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=c0ljfd4ui2gd
‘This song is for…’ Recurring sonic disruption, recalling rape victims’ ’broken records’. The South African artist Gabrielle Goliath presents a series of dedicated songs chosen by survivors of rape as her contribution to the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize. #PinchukArtCentre #fgap2019 @futuregenerationartprize #fgap #GabrielleGoliath #contemporaryart #artperformance #musicperformance #womenagainstviolence #rapevictim #Kiev #Kyiv #ukraine (at PinchukArtCentre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuvfQAEIYAG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wyd3w5t5ip3k
GABRIELLE GOLIATH IN THE 14TH PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL - VERBO 2018 | GABRIELLE GOLIATH NA 14ª MOSTRA DE PERFORMANCE ARTE - VERBO 2018
South African artist Gabrielle Goliath will participate in the 14th edition of Verbo, a Performance Art Festival that will take place in São Paulo at Galeria Vermelho between 3 and 7 July, 2018. Gabrielle will present the performance Elegy.
Elegy (2015 - ) is a long-term commemorative performance project. Staged in various locations and contexts, each performance calls together a group of female vocal performers who collectively enact a ritual of mourning. Durational and physically taxing, the performance sustains a kind of sung cry – evoking the presence of an absent individual.
Responding to the physical, ontological and structural outworkings of rape-culture in South Africa, Elegy performances recall the identity of individuals whose subjectivities have been fundamentally violated – and who are, as such, all too easily consigned to a generic, all-encompassing victimhood. With each performance commemorating a specific woman or LGBTQI+ individual raped and killed in South Africa, significant to the work is how loss becomes a site for community, and for empathic, cross-cultural and cross-national encounters. Seeking to work around the kinds of symbolic violence through which traumatised black bodies are routinely objectified, Elegy performances open a distinctly decolonial and intersectional space, wherein mourning is presented as a social and productive work – not in the sense of healing or ‘closure’, but as a necessary and sustained irresolution.
(Photo: Elegy @Ayka Lux)
A artista sul-africana Gabrielle Goliath participará da 14ª edição da Verbo, Mostra de Performance Arte que acontecerá em São Paulo na Galeria Vermelho entre os dias 3 e 7 de julho de 2018. Gabrielle apresentará a performance Elegy.
Elegy (2015 - ) é um projeto de performance comemorativo de longo prazo. Encenadas em vários locais e contextos, cada performance reúne um grupo de vocalistas femininas que encenam coletivamente um ritual de luto. Duradoura e fisicamente desgastante, a performance sustenta uma espécie de choro cantado - evocando a presença de um indivíduo ausente.
Respondendo aos processos físicos, ontológicos e estruturais da cultura do estupro na África do Sul, as performances de Elegy lembram a identidade de indivíduos cujas subjetividades foram fundamentalmente violadas - e que, como tais, são facilmente consignadas a uma vitimização genérica e abrangente. Com cada performance comemorando uma mulher específica ou LGBTQI + indivíduo estuprada e morta na África do Sul, o importante para o trabalho é como a perda se torna um local para a comunidade, e para encontros empáticos, interculturais e transnacionais. Buscando contornar os tipos de violência simbólica através dos quais os corpos negros traumatizados são rotineiramente objetificados, as performances de Elegy abrem um espaço distintamente decolonial e intersetorial, onde o luto é apresentado como um trabalho social e produtivo - não no sentido de cura ou “fechamento”, mas como uma irresolução necessária e sustentada.
