ABSTRACT
Visual records of place remain to a large degree inadequate when attempting to make visible the ephemeral states of consciousness that underlie the damage wrought by brutal regimes, let alone make visible the extraordinary histories and power structures encoded in particular images and views. A number of contemporary artists intentionally acknowledge the blurring between the real and the imaginative, almost to the point where it has become a new form of orthodoxy. The multimedia dance performance The Mourning is a cross-disciplinary work that relates to the location of the Reiterdenkmal and the Independence Museum. It was directed and choreographed by Trixie Munyama with the Da-mai Dance Ensemble, as a collaborative project that used embodiment and spatiality, and consisted of creative movement, sound, text and visual scenography.
