Gabrielle Goliath

Elegy

Performances
2015-

Initiated in 2015, Elegy is a long-term commemorative performance project. Each performance gathers a group of seven opera singers who collectively enact a ritual of mourning, sustaining a single haunting tone over the course of an hour. Invoked in this gesture are the absent presences of women and LGBTQIA+ individuals lost to a normative crisis of rape culture and femicide in South Africa and globally.

Elegy - Ipeleng Christine Moholane, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, 2015
Elegy - Sinoxolo Mafevuka, Langa Methodist Church, Cape Town, 2016
Elegy - Koketso ‘Queen’, Richmond Art Centre Atrium, Western Michigan University, 2016
Elegy - Noluvo Swelindawo, ICA Live Art Festival, Youngblood, Cape Town 2017
Elegy - Lekita Moore, Duke University, Durham, 2017
Elegy - Lerato ‘Tambai’ Moloi, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, 2017
Elegy - Camron Britz, Spielart Festival, Munich, 2017
Elegy - Hannah Cornelius, Spielart Festival, Munich, 2017
Elegy - Karabo Mokoena, The Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Johannesburg, 2017
Elegy - Joan Thabeng, Do Disturb Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018
Elegy - Joan Thabeng, National Arts Festival, Makhanda, 2018
Elegy - Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Masooa, Verbo Performance Art Festival, Saõ Paulo, 2018
Elegy - Eunice Nthombifuthi Dube, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, 2018
Elegy - Louisa van de Caab, Ikizo Slave Lodge, Cape Town, 2018
Elegy - Kagiso Maema, Theatre of Vulnerability (It's the Real Thing Performance Art Festival), Basel, 2019
Elegy - Cornelia van Piloane, Afrovibes Festival, Amsterdam & Rotterdam, 2019
Elegy - for two ancestors, La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, 2024