project image
Kazi Cele
BLACK NOTICE

first performed on November 14, 2013
MC Theater, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
performed three times in 2013

NTANDO CELE

Henning Luther, George Dimitriu

Durban, South Africa & Bern, Switzerland
ntandocl@gmail.com
vimeo.com/user3240912

BLACK NOTICE
NTANDO CELE

“Black Notice” is the second part of a body of work where I deal with contemporary responses to prejudice in white Europe. I create my own freak show. In this twenty-minute performance, I play my white alter ego Bianca White; using black and white photographs of young black women from the 1800s, as well as gestures and song, I exaggerate exoticism to a point where it loses its romantic notions. I aggressively create a specific black experience and a specific white experience that become ridiculous. Collaborating with a drummer and a guitarist based in Amsterdam who play live, we recreate superficial impressions of the other, hoping the viewer will take notice.