Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
Black Female Spatial Return
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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My work narrates the struggle of black female existence, finds ways to insert and make visible the black woman in space both in a South African and Egyptian Context.
I am creating an architecture of protest through wearable devices that seek to create visibility to the black woman that' s been blotted out of the city's spatial narrative. My medium being costume design and performance to disrupt masculine architectures and spark a conversation as to how to weave the black woman in this already dominant and patriarchal landscape.
Research Question:
How can the black female using certain pieces of clothing or adornment speak to dismantling?
patriarchal and masculine architectures. I am trying to re-introduce the black female body through acts of veiling, unveiling and adornment.
I am trying to create a lexicon through performing as a black woman to disrupt and protest masculine architectures in the city.
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Tahrir Square, Cairo
Keywords:
Black Woman, Uncormfortabilty, Wearable Architecture, Gendered, Device, Insertion, Visibility, Erasure, Temporary, Nubian