Thom, influenced by poststructuralist thinking, challenges with often extreme physical actions all concepts that dare to speak with authority about the world.
Johan Thom: "For me as a white South African I’m continuously reminded of my own ‘foreignness’and of being excluded to the whole idea of being ‘African’. Yet - I claim that space. I claim that space because to some degree it allows for slippage and transgression in the very notion of what ‘African’ is."
Produced in the context of the research project media art and the dynamics of contemporary art worlds in Johannesburg and Luanda, funded by the Federal German Research Foundation (DFG), 2010.