The Centre for the Less Good Idea is an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts based in Maboneng, Johannesburg

EVEN FURTHER AWAY

Sue Pam-Grant is an actor, writer, and interdisciplinary artist who has collaborated on Seasons 5 and 7 at The Centre for the Less Good Idea.

Here, Pam-Grant makes use of a series of textual fragments on masks to explore the early stages of the Covid 19 pandemic as an artist.

“‘Even Further Away’ is the merging of parallel conversations between my postscript reflections from my Performance Art / Encounter ‘Duel/Duet: The Every Love Story’ and our current apocalyptic encounter, ‘Love in the Time of Corona’. The Postscript Mask Objects (A series of 41 Masks, the last one being ‘#41, EVEN FURTHER AWAY’ was made in February 2020, 10 days before the first positive recording of Covid 19 in South Africa.) The title for that iteration was ‘Sirens of Silence’. ‘Even Further Away’, is a reminder that the artist must ‘Continue to Make’ in order to ‘Continue to Breathe’...” – Sue Pam- Grant 2020.