This installation in the middle of Thibault Square was a reimagining of township homes but open to be spied on. Munyai reveals the evils our society hides behind closed doors: gender violence and discrimination, drugs, poverty and the abuse of children and substances. The roofless corrugated iron walls punctured with holes allow the audience members to become voyeurs. If they do not move closer and peer through the holes, they see nothing but the corrugated fence.
About Tebogo Munyai
Cape Town-based Tebogo Munyai has performed and choreographed at numerous festivals in South Africa, collaborating with institutions like the Market Theatre, Nimrod Freed’s Tami Dance Theatre Company from Israel, and Boaz and Anike Barkan from Denmark. Munyai has established the Kopano Community Group in Mohlakeng and works as a freelance facilitator in African Dance at various educational institutions.
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( Note that the recording appears with Kim Gurney’s Cape Town Under, The Third Voice and Leonard Shapiro’s Expressions in Chalk, What does Cape Town mean to me)
