BIG DRUID IN HIS CUBICLE Basel Art Fair 2009 (Art Unlimited) Installation/performance Willem Boshoff residing in a cubicle for the duration of the art fair One assistant, during gallery hours, for the duration of the performance Duration of stay: 6 days and nights Cubicle: a room at least 6 X 7 metre 2 computers, 3 […]
“PROUD TO BE A RACIST openly challenges the stereotype that white people who complain about the state of the economy, crime and politics in South Africa are racist. The seeds for PROUD TO BE A RACIST were sown as far back as 2004, when then President Thabo Mbeki harshly branded white commentators writing about violent […]
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Another viewing of the Druid performance / walk can be viewed online, produced by the African Noise Foundation (collective of artists, poets and musicians), during a conference at Stellenbosch University in 2013. The video juxtaposes a Druid walk of privileged conference participants in Slabtown Stellenbosch, at a derelect squatter camp, just 3km away from […]
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When ‘the (art) thing’ is no longer the ‘thing’: Art Week Cape Town I can hear Willem Boshoff aka The Big Druid snoring before I see him. He’s lying on a thin mattress on the floor of the Smac Gallery, where his installation Big Druid in his Cubicle has been installed. Consisting of vintage objects […]