Burial | CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE | BROWN UNIVERSITY

Burial is a performance emerging from an attempt at connecting with one’s ancestors, but with little to no information on where to begin.
Conceptualised by Katlego Letsholonyana, the performance sees a lone figure (Letsholonyana) searching, calling out, and evoking the spirits of those he has lost and can no longer connect with. On the floor, and on screen, an image of shallow graves is projected and it is these graves that he moves through and calls out to.
Behind the screen, illuminated only when his hunched shadow obscures the image, spectral figures appear - static, mute, but ever-present. To Letsholonyana, they are inaccessible. They remain behind the glass, beyond the graves, in the other world glimpsed through the Pepper’s Ghost, while he continues to search.
Ultimately, his search comes to a natural close. He stands up, exists the image, and joins them behind the glass, in the other realm.
CONCEPTUALISER | Katlego Letsholonyana
PERFORMERS | Katlego Letsholonyana, Teresa Phuti Mojela, Anathi Conjwa, Dikeledi Modubu & Vusi Mdoyi
PHOTO CREDIT | Collection Archives de la Planète, Musée départemental Albert-Kahn, Département des Hauts-de-Seine