Gogo | CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE | BROWN UNIVERSITY

A single image becomes the backdrop and the conceptual point of departure for Dikeledi Modubu’s Gogo.
A brief, but impactful performance, Gogo sees Modubu enter and kneel in front of the Pepper’s Ghost, evoking her ancestors. Slowly, an image develops - abstract and out of focus at first, before emerging in the frame as an image of an elder woman. Something of a spiritual exhumation, Modubu’s desire to bring her grandmother back to life momentarily, and to converse with her, to update her about her life, ultimately serves as the impulse for the work.
Modubu converses with the image as she would her own grandmother, laughing, gossiping, questioning, tutting and doting. She leans in and kisses her on the head. It is a tender and rewarding moment in a work that is otherwise filled with the tension of yearning and separation.
CONCEPTUALISER | Dikeledi Modubu
PERFORMER | Dikeledi Modubu
PHOTO CREDIT | Collection Archives de la Planète, Musée départemental Albert-Kahn, Département des Hauts-de-Seine
FOUNDER OF THE CENTRE | William Kentridge
CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR | Bronwyn Lace
MOMENTEUR-THE SO ACADEMY | Athena Mazarakis
HOLDER & ASSOC. PRODUCER | Dimakatso Motholo
DIRECTOR CINEMATOGRAPHY & EDITOR | Noah Cohen
EDITOR & COMPOSITOR | Octavia Sonyane
SOUND DESIGNER & ENGINEER | Zain Vally
ASSISTANT SOUND ENGINEER | Jack Garrett
WRITER & COMMUNICATIONS | David Mann
PROP & COSTUME DESIGNER | Nthabiseng Malaka
COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT | Iris Courchaine
PRODUCTION MANAGER | Brendon Boyd
STAGE MANAGER | Meghan Williams
LIGHTING TECHNICIANS | Audrey Visscher,
Fred Young, Gabriel Goldman, Chris Griffin &
Alexander Foley
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE | Bukhosibakhe Khoza
PRODUCED BY | THE OFFICE performing arts + film
Rachel Chanoff, Laurie Cearley, Bruna d’Avila, Elly Obeney
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Brown Arts Institute at Brown University
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