Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University, the editor of Stride magazine, and a contributing editor to international times. He is the author of many collections of poetry, including Dear Mary, The Return of the Man Who Has Everything, Wildlife and Ballads of the Alone, and Encouraging Signs, a book of essays, articles and interviews, all published by Shearsman Books. He edited Smartarse and co-edited Yesterday’s Music Today for Knives Forks & Spoons Press, From Hepworth’s Garden Out: poems about painters and St. Ives for Shearsman Books, and Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh, an anthology of manifestos and unmanifestos, for Salt.
'HERE I AM'
William Kentridge,
Whitechapel Gallery, Nov 2016
pianola roll shadows
useless machines
parades & propaganda
silhouette carnival
the broken & dispossessed
surround us
wrecked possessions
bury walls of refugees
he fled his fate'
metronomes
gospel songs
distorted time
black hole black culture
bullhorns foghorns loudspeakers
echoing and distracting
the arrow of time stops
South African history lessons
overcoming obstacles
cycles of resistance
black & white paper man's
folded-up problems
carry the weight of the world
enabling others to walk
self-conscious colonisation
polka perfection
traces of ourselves
complicit
other stories
puppet state stories
stories already told
surrounded by stories
macabre squeezebox
trying on hats for size
ill-fitting suits
in languages we don't understand
light/dark black/white
an accusation of the past
knots of light and time
the mechanics of racism
hygienic time
piped time
relentless time
scrambled stories
co-existence
several screens
dislocated time
contemporaneous time
co-existent time
dawn of destruction
dance of celebration
an accumulation of time
event horizons
morse memory
lost messages
undo
unhappen
unbelieve
misinformation
trace markers
pianola roll shadows
“Let us see where we are.
Both receiving all the projections
that come toward us, listening, a
receiving station, scanning the earth
for reports of the world,
bombarded by particles of
information we cannot escape. And
transmitting, projecting,
broadcasting ourselves continually.
Here I am.
HERE I AM.
Here I am.”
— William Kentridge, Six Drawing Lessons
Learn More:
- William Kentridge | I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine at Inhotim Gallery
- A Documentary of William Kentridge eight channel video installation.
- William Kentridge | I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine at Performa
- South Africa’s Picasso: William Kentridge | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 41
- A Drawing Lesson | William Kentridge
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