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“UIRTUS (pronounced weer-toos) The sum of all the corporeal or mental excellences of man: strength, vigor, bravery, courage, aptness, capacity, worth, excellence, virtue, etc.” Lewis & Short’s 1879 Latin Dictionary.
UIRTUS is a public performance that engages with the pressures of maintaining lineages of Black excellence. It physicalises the toll that familial, societal, historical and economic pressures can take on a young person during their schooling years. References to the underrepresented mission-educated Black women intellectuals of the past and the anxieties of youth unemployment in an economically uncertain South Africa collide in this audience-inclusive journey of endurance.
Creation, design, and performance: Naledi Majola
Performance: Masali Baduza
Infecting the City Public Art Festival, Cape Town, 2019