ABSTRACT
This performance piece for two voices was performed by Prof Pierre de Vos and Prof Jaco-Barnard-Naudé as a site-specific work at the remnants of Graaff’s Pool in Sea Point, Cape Town on a chilly day in 2016. It was part of the programme of the symposium “Queer in Africa: The Cape Town Question”. By way of a dialogue between two voices, the authors engaged with questions of race, gender and queer space(s) in contemporary Cape Town. Dialogically the piece is a continuation of an earlier text, performed at a conference in Stockholm, Sweden, and published later in the journal Acta Academica (2014). The authors’ subversion of the fiction/non-fiction distinction in that piece applies with equal intention here. An earlier version of this text was published by Barnard-Naudé and De Vos (2018). Scene: Graaff’s Pool, Sea Point Promenade, Cape Town. Voices 1 and 2 are sitting in two camping chairs on a sandy spot between the rocks. A small audience surrounds them. Between them on the ground is a boom box which is connected to a microphone held by Voice 1. Voice 1 and Voice 2 will pass the microphone from one to the other, according to the instructions.
