SUPER BORING - Wayne Barker
celebrating 25 years of Wayne Barker’s work (catalogue), 2010, Marelize van Zyl (ed). Published by SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch (RSA); ISBN: 978-0-620-46718-6
celebrating 25 years of Wayne Barker’s work (catalogue), 2010,
Marelize van Zyl (ed). Published by SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch (RSA);
ISBN: 978-0-620-46718-6
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WA W WWAYNE A YN Y E BA BARK BARKER RK RRK RKER K ER<br />
In 1985 I was conscripted to do my National Service – in a way to be initiated as white<br />
male into manhood. But I decided – no way am I going to partake in this rubbish.<br />
I saw the army as a treadmill, and in a way I think it was almost like a shongololo –<br />
this small shongololo with a thousand feet and a thousand boots and I did not want to be<br />
another one of the thousand boots that was going to go into a township and randomly<br />
shoot at victims and shacks.<br />
I convinced this machine that I was a mad individual. So for fourteen days I marched<br />
like Charlie Chaplin. I was the “fokken engelsman”. I was quite diffi cult, but in fact it was<br />
quite hilarious.<br />
I had been given the certifi cate to say that I was mentally and physically unable to<br />
partake in this Military Service.<br />
WAYNE BARKER, 1992<br />
<strong>SUPER</strong> <strong>BORING</strong><br />
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