Durational site-specific performance
Originally performed by Lesiba Mabitsela, Godfrey De Sylva, Michael Jacobs, Sizo Mahlangu and Abdul Dube
 

In a continent built on competing patriarchal cultures and traditions, the current Eurocentric perspective is the dominant power. The suit/blazer is a symbol of Christian morality, power and class that has made its way there through the violent legacy of colonialism and slavery or as Edward Said would suggest, “Cultural
imperialism.
 

Black Tie - An Alternative Store Opening (2016) explores embodied performances of African male masculine behaviours in the everyday. For this particular inquiry the gendered and military associations inherent in the suit are seen to be ironically connected to contemporary masculine embodied behaviours in Africa which
are expressed through public display and contradictory African cultural practices.