Intimate Reparations was a ritual performance that explored the decolonisation of the body/land and examined the entanglement of race, power, sex and violence through ritualised bondage and domination on and with the racialized body. BDSM, kink and Shibari became methods to speak to the unspeakable grotesqueness of colonialism. In the process, the performers invited emergent fugitive spaces of tender new ecologies and multi-species intimacies. Can we dream of invoking the libidinal law of the Land itself?
About Rehane Abrahams and Wynand Herholdt
Rehane Abrahams is a theatre maker, performer and writer. Her practice andresearch focus on decolonial rituals of healing for the body and land. Co-founder and co-director of The Mother Tongue Project, her training includes performance at UCT, classical Javanese dance and Body Weather Farm Butoh. Wynand Herholdt is a camera operator, skateboarder, and tattoo artist whose work is informed by Notions of Flow.
