Katherine Bull transform through creativity

Christian Nerf invited 10 artists to join him for dinner and impromptu performance.

In Christian’s words about Believe You Me…
“I am offering a balancing act: part premeditated and manipulative, part intuitive and impulsive. My wish is for us all to be in dialogue, even with strangers. Let us get over the givens and engage, click in. Common sense has gotten the world in debt and facilitated hunger, poverty, ignorance of ecological issues and general thoughtlessness. If we can’t trust in common sense perhaps we need to forget the prevailing logic and invest in a less predictable and more experimental (non)stance? Rather than thinking so hard, how about we think soft and often? For me, working through art is a way and a place to interrogate and reveal the idea of Truth. It is not only about hard facts but also the poetry of time, life, death, transformation, desire, rebellion, freedom, and conscious and unconscious choice. The Truth is more erratic than we care to know. My work encourages me to be not merely innovative and build on what exists but to be inventive and to be open to ‘uncalled-for newness’. I can only assume that what I share inspires others to open up. If not, it is at least a series of examples of mindful artistic experimentation, and proof that one needs neither deadlines nor a belief system to make and do things. Thinking is a good idea.”

For this performance, I decided to focus on the drawing the audience. So with opera glasses and iPad in hand I spent the 30 minute duration of the performance sketching members of the audience while they could watch what I was drawing projected on one of the Concert Hall balconies

data_captive audience (as part of Christian Nerf's Believe You Me, Live Arts Festival, Cape Town)

projection- title

photograph by Anja De Klerk

data_captive audience (as part of Christian Nerf's Believe You Me, Live Arts Festival, Cape Town)

photograph by Anje De Klerk

data_captive audience (as part of Christian Nerf's Believe You Me, Live Arts Festival, Cape Town)

drawing projection

photograph by Anje De Klerk

data_captive audience

digital drawing on iPad using Moleskin journal application

data_captive audience

digital drawing on iPad using Moleskin journal application