Walking and Stumbling: The Aesthetic as Agitator for Activism

Sara Matchett

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The Aesthetic as Agitator for Activism

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Pages:: 165–184

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004442962_011

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The chapter interrogates the efficacy of site-responsive performance art and its contribution to embodied activism. It locates embodied activism within the field of Somaesthetics and proposes performance art that by its aesthetic nature is provocative; where the aesthetic of the performance is the agitator for activism; where the location or site of the performance intersects with the content of the work to create an additional layer of meaning.

The chapter examines two works by The Mothertongue Project. The first, Walk, was created in 2014 and has had various iterations since then. The chapter focuses on the most recent version that performed at the 2018 South African National Arts Festival in Makhanda. The second, #StumblingBlocks, was made with The Mothertongue Youth Theatre Company, based in McGregor, a rural village in the Langeberg region of the Western Cape of South Africa.

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African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics

Series: Studies in Somaesthetics, Volume: 3

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004442962

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 17 Nov 2020

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