The Amateur Holympics
...lost in Paris.....
The Amateur Holympics.
It is quite daunting, living in some remote area in the eastern KwaZuluNatal interior of a third world country, and trying to be taken seriously. I do not think SA’ns have a good standing globally…..acknowledging that there are at least SOME exceptions….and even those are subject to an array of misunderstandings.
And yet….and yet….living in such remote and near rural spaces, does at least afford me some impartiality…..and being so divorced from almost all mainstream narratives allows me to possibly see connections that others don’t……
And now for that Olympic fiasco…..a distraction of a subsection of what is really going on……again…..and badly scripted.
Christians are being goaded (the bots are having a field day on ‘X’) to be up in arms about a second rate theatrical performance….yet not a murmur about the Palestinian genocide? The ‘Christian’ view is so distorted it beggars belief….and so loaded with ‘the two sided story’ propaganda, that it becomes a mine field to unravel - by purposeful design, of course. It is shocking that the ‘two sided narrative’ even still exists given the march of Zio depravity…
But there is only ONE side: The Palestinian side.
The Apartheid Demon - Helgé Janssen
Image first manifested 1984
Photographer: Rhett Podersoo
Artist/Performer/image creator: Helge Janssen
Year 1995 (image/concept first created 1984)
Location: Abandoned warehouse rooftop, Point Road. Durban 1995
And, as amateur as that Olympic debacle was, one thing is certain: they are not mocking Christianity. All they are doing is giving the ‘last supper’ an alternative interpretation within a broader ‘inclusive’ framework…..which has become a DISTRACTION of what is REALLY going on. And, to be honest, the performance comes across as a typical ‘rabble/rebel group’ one sees in almost any gay club.
…and in creative terms, is the Last Supper not totally passé? It seems to have been done to death:
Historical variations of ‘The Last Supper’: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&sca_esv=1c866aa5bb9857de&sxsrf=ADLYWILgvyudCu5dUhsJY0l8jCPR55t1Uw:1723037374860&q=Modern+paintings+of+The+Last+Supper&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiD36a1_uKHAxXfTkEAHdqwAdwQ1QJ6BAg4EAE&biw=1366&bih=611&dpr=1
At best then, I see the performance as PROTEST theatre….a defiance of mainstream narratives that abhors individuality and ‘difference’.
At worst, what mars the event more than anything is that it comes across as a COPY of far darker ‘satanic’ rituals that have been utilized in other high profile events. Very easy to point fingers at shadows! In this sense, the event obscures/ MUDDIES the WATERS.
Into THIS mix of course, comes the pronoun bullshit, and hence the performance sequences are negatively loaded within the shadow of men competing in woman’s sports…..which is so abhorrent it beggars belief.
BUT
the performers certainly have a notion of ‘tribe’ about them and the repression of what is ‘unique’ in them (at points being contestably demonstrated as it becomes difficult to tell how much of the performance was scripted, and how much was ‘ad lib’…) becomes a defiant force in a world that seeks uniformity.
Aaaannnnnnnd in a driving Hollowwood sense…..there is NOTHING more abhorrent than being IGNORED….so its balls to the walls and be damned.
Sadly.
In summary, then, this is a SHADOW within a SHADOW…
Photographer: Rhett Podersoo
Artist/Performer/image creator: Helge Janssen
Year 1995 (image/concept first created 1984)
Helgé Janssen is a multimedia performance artist/painter/fashion designer/author/educator/dancer/poet/innovator of fabric wallets/mask maker/ avant-garde theatre/alternative DJ/founder of THE BODY OF DESPONDENT ARTISTS (‘84-’87)/non-conformist/dissenter.