This event took place in my prefab studio space at the newly opened NMMU Bird Street Arts Campus. I'm interested in using the studio as an interim space; one which links institutional gallery or museum space to outside "non-art" areas. The title of the event was intended to intersect
the notion of the archive and the enactment of knowledge, in that a “wunderkammer” acts as a means of storing
information, while the term “self-prosthesis” has been used in previous events
to describe objects which are simultaneously completed by and ‘complete’ the
viewer, thus suggesting active modes of viewing. The Wunderkammer of Self-Prosthesis was in this way a means of
archiving a series of audience enactments as related to the objects presented
to them. Here participants became engaged in a fully immersive mode of performative play, creating bonds between one another and forming relationships with the objects they interacted with. Prompt cards depicting a selection of these objects could be utilised by viewers to record their movements.
