Donna Kukama

Kukama's performances and installations often manifest a form and character that is experimental. In the manner of the bricoleur, Kukama appropriates and manipulates existing forms whilst inventing new ways of occupying and shifting between various territories. Her methods are deliberately undisciplined. As an artist whose interest is to occupy an existing canon, she uses performance as a strategy; one that allows her to invent as well as apply methods that are outside the canon of what is predictable or expected.

"I use performance as a medium of resistance against already established ʻways of doing,ʼ moreover as a strategy for inserting a foreign ʻotherʼ voice and presence into various
territories of the public. My work weaves major with minor aspects of histories, and introduces a fragile and brief moment of “strangeness” within sociopolitical settings.
These actions are intended as gestures of poetry with political intent and hopefully destabilize existing canons regarding the ways we look at reality."