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Each of the work’s 12 figures regarding action to avert the plastic
(photo, page 18: Sharon Rudman) crisis. The “Capitalist Monster,” first
combine body-painting and performed by Joshua Rudman,
costuming, created from plastic critiques the waste generated by
trash collected along the Nelson consumer culture. The “Green
Mandela Bay coastline. They all Monster,” first performed by Mmeli
show aspects of the multi-facetted Mdala, personifies land plastic
plastic pollution crisis. The pollution. The piece combined
centrepiece, “Blue Plastic Monster” leaves and flowers crafted from
(shown on the left), personifies the plastic discarded in local fynbos
marine plastic pollution crisis. Luke areas. The “Microplastic Monster,”
performed this piece at The first performed by Britney
Tributaries Project Pilgrim’s Govender, evokes the fear of our
Exhibition, and also highlighted the daily ingestion of microplastics in
“Fast Food Monster” (shown on the food. The wounded “Styrofoam
next page), first performed by Angel,” first performed by Andrea
Nehemiah Latolla. He describes this Hurst, depicts the distressing
figure as an incongruous, surreal desecration of serene and majestic
representation of everyday, single natural spaces by plastic pollution.
use plastic cutlery and receptacles, Two untitled pieces, first performed
which hopes to prompt a fresh by Jessica Swan and Shannon Pika,
perspective on their environmental pairs discarded plastic with human-
effect and renewed conviction like features to show the complex
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