Lost with All Hands (lost without hands)
Sat Sep 7, 20:00 - Sat Sep 7, 21:00
Hiddingh Campus
ABOUT
Lost with All Hands (lost without hands) might be anchored in the present but includes a trans-historical presence: an old man in the guise of a 19th-century London Night Watchman. It presents three figures: a young immigrant wife in 1950s Cape Town, her betrothed - an absent seafarer; and the Watchman. Using video, sculpted objects and live performance, the tableaux and actions abstract a once hegemonic way of life – post-Second World War optimism, the repressed memory of the colonial genocides, and the enforced displacement to the so-called Terra Nullius of those found guilty of crimes, crimes of survival, and crimes of rebellion.
John Nankin (1947 -) is an artist and performer who has worked as a set designer, art director and screenwriter.