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Rising-falling
General Louis Botha monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa
15 June 2021

On 15 June 2021, the day before South Africa's Youth Day commemoration, Emmanuel's existing video work Remember-dismember (2015) was projected publicly onto the pedestal of the equestrian monument to General Louis Botha at the Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa. The intervention was documented live by Latitudes Online and simultaneously recorded on video to create a video artwork. This video artwork premiered on his solo exhibition Substance of Shadows installed at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery in September 2021. Supported by Diversity Art Forum and The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study.

More information

Essay by Karen von Veh and Landi Raubenheimer in 'Image and Text' journal (2022) [PDF]

Article by Sandile Ngidi for the Mail and Guardian newspaper (2021) [PDF]

Concept document [PDF]

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production of 'Rising-falling'
Paul Emmanuel
15 July 2021
Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa

Production photo of ‘Remember-dismember’ and ‘Rising-falling’
Paul Emmanuel
2013
“My first body cast! Made from a polyurethane infused orthopedic bandage that hardens in minutes once dipped in water. The bandage is wound around my body and left to cure. Being cut out of each cast was a risky excercise and I have a few souvenir niks in various places!”

Production photo of ‘Remember-dismember’ and ‘Rising-falling’
Paul Emmanuel
2013

Production photo of ‘Remember-dismember’ and ‘Rising-falling’
Paul Emmanuel
2013
“Each name had to be typeset and each letter had to be individually glued on the inside of the orthopedic body casts. These letters were made by a 3D printing process at Ekurhuleni Jewellery Project, Germiston, South Africa.”

Production photo of ‘Remember-dismember’ and ‘Rising-falling’
Paul Emmanuel
2013
“Each name had to be typeset and each letter had to be individually glued on the inside of the orthopedic body casts. These letters were made by a 3D printing process at Ekurhuleni Jewellery Project, Germiston, South Africa.”

Production photo of ‘Remember-dismember’ and ‘Rising-falling’
Paul Emmanuel
2013
“Each name had to be typeset and each letter had to be individually glued on the inside of the orthopedic body casts. These letters were made by a 3D printing process at Ekurhuleni Jewellery Project, Germiston, South Africa.”

Production photo of ‘Remember-dismember’ and ‘Rising-falling’
Paul Emmanuel
2013
“I had to shave all my hair off and my assistant Susan Sellschop very gleefully wound the polyurethane bandage around my scalp. After it had set hard, and when we finally managed to pull the cast off my head, I held it in my hands like an empty bowl. It looked terribly small to me. Sue said that perhaps we could use it to stew some baked puddings...”
Photo by Sue Sellschop.

Production photo of ‘Remember-dismember’ and ‘Rising-falling’
Paul Emmanuel
2013
“View of a section of military memorabilia shop "Blunderbuss" in Alberton, Johannesburg, South Africa.”

Production photo of ‘Remember-dismember’ and ‘Rising-falling’
Paul Emmanuel
2013
“The South African War section of S'khumbuto - Wall of Names at Freedom Park, Pretoria, South Africa. The Voortrekker Monument can be seen on the horizon.”

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