At present I am busy with a new series of works entitled the “Minotaur Series”. The series consists of various performances, videos and installations that are all conceptually tied to the Greek myth of the Minotaur – the half human half animal borne from Minos` broken promise to Poseidon. However, I am not interested in pursuing the moral implications of the myth but rather in utilizing it as a central principle from which to generate insights into our contemporary everyday by focusing on, what may be termed, our “confrontation with the void”: the existence of this abject being (the Minotaur) in the realm of Greek society was first “contained” (in the labyrinth built by Minos) and later “expelled” (his death at the hands of Theseus). Thus, one may state in deconstructive terms, ensuring the preservation of the Greek logos. Using African mythological and religious figures and practices, such as those manifested in the “tokkelosh”, the Fon spirit masks, Bobo bush masks and the Egungun funerary masks amongst others, I wish to reconstruct the myth of the Minotaur and place it in a contemporary context. Furthermore, the conflation of these various cultural myths is a deliberate act on my part, one that is intended to destabilize historically established meanings, models of interpretation and the various culturally distinct traditions that presuppose them. Thus, instead of ethnicity I wish to focus on the possibility of a transgressive hybridity manifested along the axis of miss-articulation, silence, slippage, the free flow of meaning and the admittance of the vastness of human experience.

The works in this series have thus far mostly been performative in nature – rituals comprised of many different cultural influences and symbols.