In this continuing body of work, I employ print, sound, objects, and video to share my artistic research about Drosters* and to exhume an erased aesthetic.
These mediums assist me to see things in myriads of ways: History, the way we live, our bodies, what's written and spoken, and how we understand things.
Droster aesthetika* don't fit into the boxes created by colonialism and academic taxonomies. It includes many ways of doing things that keep changing and creating new possibilities for how we exist, feel, know, and live together.
Drosters arose from the coming together of runaway slaves, khoe conscription deserters and free black rebels. The local name 'drosters', meant drifters, rebels or runaways. This all happened in ancient '||hui ! gais' - where clouds gather , now only known as Cape Town.
Droster aesthetika is my invocation of ancestral rebellion and fugivity . Follow my Journey of uncovering and (re)membering.