Tinkering and creating and being an interesting force, without being acknowledged by government or the formal system.
— Lawrence Lemaoana
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When somebody makes a controversial artwork, it’s not necessarily going to change anything for people who are already educated in the arts. So that complication, that misunderstanding, becomes interesting.
With the Ambassador being a patron of the arts, he invited us to come speak, have workshops with the students etc., that’s how we got involved.
In a way, the workshop and conversation will aid me in thinking in a more complex way about these issues, and give me a more concrete way of moving forward.
My work has been about questioning the essence of identity, and this idea of researching the meaning of identity; the theory that identity is a myth, that it is constructed, and that people face a material reality that is linked to race, sex and all those things.
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