enough. video poetry performance. 2009. Badilisha Poetry Xchange! 2009. Africa Centre, Cape Town.

enough. video poetry performance. Badilisha Poetry Xchange! May 2009. Africa Centre, Cape Town.

Sometimes you’ve had enough. And sometimes you have enough. A fusion of sound and light, Kai Lossgott’s and Mbali Vilakazi’s authentic and intimate multimedia poetry performance "enough" takes you into the dream cycles of obsessive behaviour and uncomfortable truths in the search for wholeness. It is about the breakdown of society, and people at breaking point.

In a lyrical conversation of experimental music and cinema, the poets draw their self-portraits only to erase them, through testimonies that become ciphers in the round-trip between abundance and gratitude, lack and self-pity. Through spoken word, dance, and gesture, they journey with the audience through breathing rhythms of take and give, where insecurity comes up for air and we open like blossoms.

what is the sum total of all journeys?
the shape of life in ebb and flow
if they should happen all at  once,
would one of them stand out?
and they may yet return to the shore
if all lifetimes added up and
divided by pervasive form
some kind of golden mean
would deliver the best, the
quickest, safest, most elegant
route to your dream destination
a stillness that speaks
would you be able to take the trip
without wondering
what you were missing out on?
listening.

Kai Lossgott & Mbali Vilakazi in performance, May 2009

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Music by Niklas Zimmer ("here, now")
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Trombonist: Mandla Mlangeni

Performance photos courtesy of the Africa Centre and Cecile Mella. Video stills courtesy of Kai Lossgott & Mbali Vilakazi. 2009.

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