THE HUGGAS AND THE LITTLE BOOKIE NOOK

House of Umbra is an installation that brings art and performance from the ethereal to the real. This piece is designed to bring stage performance to the ground level. The House is a 11.42ft height – 95 sq.ft triangular prism with shadow screens on three of its sides. This is a space for dancers, musicians, artists and participants to design a performance in real time. A kaleidoscope of abstract colours and designs are projected on the inside of the structure. Dancers, movers and aerialists play with projections showing the distortion and abstraction of the body, using shadows to facilitate. They transform the House into a space that illuminates their movement, drawing attention to their bodies amongst vibrant projections that create shadows. It is also interactive, a chance for audiences to create and embody sound and images. Passers can enter the structure and play behind the screens. This prism shines bright in the desert, illuminating bodies and creating shadows. Come search for this bright light on your journey and dance in a sea of colour. House of Umbra is an interactive light installation that welcomes all kinds of performers to get lost in its light.

Tracings of Impermanence is a land-based spatial installation for the Tankwa /Karoo desert ecology. The project is conceived as a cartographic sigil created from the earth it stands upon and is raised as a witness to the entanglement of species and forces across time. We propose this structure as an invitation to sense the desert as a living field of forces and lineages: wind, water, heat, dust; migration routes of birds and animals; indigenous flora; the movements of pastoralist peoples suchas the San and Khoekhoe; the treaded path of the voortrekker, and of course an ancient ocean that once covered this basin, leaving mineral memory in the playa.