![]() ![]() ![]() It introduces a new protest language – art – a present tense. SA’s Dirty Laundry asks South Africans to see their own story in one of the 3600 pieces of dirty underwear. The artivism featured works by womxn students from the University of the Witwatersrand, questioning presence in protest performance (art, reality). Love being understood as a revolutionary sentiment that demands action, as various notable revolutionaries have espoused. ![]() Visual artist Jenny Nijenhuis and performance artist Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga respectively collaborated to host, with SoMa Art + Space, an exhibition plus street performances under the title The Things We Do for Love. A womxn puts her body on the line by stripping off the layers of clothing that en-role her as an object because of her gender, taking off layer after layer of soiled white panties until she stands in the street, naked, with only a childhood panty as covering. The artivism: 3600 pairs of underwear hang on a washing line of 1.2 km, over the city of Johannesburg’s Maboneng precinct – used underwear donated by people across the country as a means to share their story or support of surviving rape. Take a walk in my shoes by allowing yourself to shed your defences and put your underwear on the line…SA’s Dirty Laundry is an artivism (art plus activism) campaign that took the call for re-introduced and re-viewed forms of protest to heart, by using art to bring awareness to the issue of rape. ![]()
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