 | Reenactment of a Anglo-Boer War Battle (Mafeking) From Edison Films catalog, no. 105, July 1901: "In the opening of this picture we see in the foreground a company of Highlanders preparing for a charge on the Boer entrenchments seen in the distance. Just in advance of the Highlanders, two pieces of artillery have just been placed in position, and these immediately open fire upon the enemy. After several volleys from the battery, the Highlanders charge. They only reach a point just in advance of the battery, when they are attacked on the flank by a troop of Boer Cavalry, who come on the scene riding like madmen. All the Artillerymen fall about their guns except one, who runs to join the Highlanders, but is brought to earth by a shot from one of the Cavalrymen. The Boers close with the Highlanders and a hand to hand fight is waged, in which the smoke becomes so thick that it is difficult to distinguish Boer from Briton. A Cavalryman is seen to fall mortally wounded from his horse, who walks off the field with an empty saddle. |
 | The Bloodlines Installation at Red Location Museum Artist Statement: "This was the fourth of five Bloodlines Events, both National and International, that will finally come together in 2008 as a Contemporary/documentary art video. A ritual collaborative Event with people from the Red Location settlement and Museum, used long red banners, symbolic of fire and blood, to recreate a voyage that commemorated the region's historic connections during the struggle from Apartheid to Democracy. Commencing on the bridge over the New Brighton railway station, where many historic arrests were made during the 1950's, a 10 meter long red and white chevroned banner marked the barrier that once separated whites from black people. Then, moving across the bridge, long red banners were laid down to mark a route down the stairs and across the grit to Olive Palmer Ave, where the relocated red-rusted, corrugated iron shacks are situated that once housed the Boer women and Children in Uitenhage during the Anglo-Boer war. These shacks were moved to Port Elizabeth in 1902 to create the first black settlement in what came to be known as the Red Location district. From this point the Bloodline again moves diagonally across the grit to complete the 300 meter long line to the entrance of the Red Location Museum. Strong winds threatened to destroy the Line throughout, but the people of the region held them down, both with their bodies and the large rocks that litter the area. The Line held firm. Those present each made it their own voyage. They walked on it, the children played on it - this was the symbolic re-enactment of past pain, now transcended through a shared collaborative ritual. People were invited to sign their names on the banners and then to pass these hand to hand into the foyer of the Museum. There, a pulley hoisted two 20 meter long red banners high into the steel rafters, creating a powerful Bloodline that poured from ceiling to floor thus energizing the space with living memory. This banner installation will remain in the museum for 3 months to mark these events, to commemorate the Healing, and to create a Burning Light of Hope and Reconciliation within the dark halls of memory of the Red Location Museum". GEORGIA PAPAGEORGE July 2007 |
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