and don’t ask
yes do ask all the AWKWARD questions one of them is bound to throw the FAT into the fire there is so much BLOOD being swept under the carpet
but do not ask NO DO NOT ASK the policeman why he hasn’t got any MANNERS
as he comes barging in or BULLDOZING over or whatever it is that he likes to call himself BIG DADDY told him manners maketh the COWARD and somewhere
along he way BIG MOMMY must have agreed oh I’ve been told that MOTHERS
rule the world but this is ridiculously INCOMPATABLE
and whose generation gap is this anyway?
And just WHAT do you do with a young BLACK BOY whose first TRAUMA trauma
was being dragged behind a police van in a DUSTBIN with a lid on it? But
I’m just looking for my country
OIL PAINTING “MOON, WALL, FLOWERS, SNAKE
YEAR 1986
SIZE: (APPROX) 1000mm X 1000mm
ARTIST: HELGE JANSSEN
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and how are your SOCIAL SHARES standing today huh? UP or down?
Did somebody start a nasty RUMOUR about you too? That’s all they ever seem to do
around here is to talk AT each other over the ‘phone, it makes them think that they’re
alive living their lives through other people’s lives over the phone the telephone
syndrome it goes on for weeks years months and hours about other people taking risks
oh my just look at the time in just under five minutes he or she will be home
and I haven’t even slaughtered the HORSE yet and there are those that confuse
CHRIST with CHRISTIANITY and place mongering and GOSSIP with FICTION above
FACT I wonder who told them to NARROW their minds it surely wasn’t CHRIST
but I’m just looking for my country
PHOTOGRAPHER: PETER HART-DAVIS
THE BODY OF DESPONDENT ARTISTS (BODA) 1985
FROM LEFT: GISELE TURNER,RUBY BOGAARD, HELGE JANSSEN, DAVID MULVEY GISELE STAFFORD.
POST REHEARSAL FOR GRAHAMSTOWN FESTIVAL
AVANT-GARDE PLAY BY HELGE JANSSEN: “MASTERS OF CEREMONY”
and then he likes to play DEAD just when you think he’s coming alive
and then he hides in the CLOSET and pretends to be ALERT
who INVERTED him with a girlfriend under one collar and a SURFBOARD
under the other BOOT now they’re ready for any BEACH south of the BORDER
but his mommy likes it that way but her daddy isn’t too sure as he tries to remember with EFFORT the passport to HETEROSEX
but the ball got lost trying to decide which way to BOUNCE an OUNCE or a pound of your FLESH will pay for yet another CRIME
which breeds PESTILENCE once there was a way but he still seems to think that every LOVE SONG is about HIM
and yes I can see the BLOOD as it oozes from your BROW in unquenched unsurrendered DESIRE and
I’m still looking for my country
MOVEMENT INTERLUDE VANTIGOS NIGHT CLUB PERFORMING “I’M LOOKING FOR MY COUNTRY” 1991 STILL FROM VIDEO
FROM THE SAME VIDEO 1991
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