Kamogelo Kgaswane

Who am I

“The question, ‘who am I?’ is not meant to get an answer, the question ‘who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.” - Ramana Maharshi

Who am I is a performance monologue piece that I wrote. In this performance, I am reciting the monologue with no script and I am attempting to remember the words of the monologue. The nature of this process, together with the dragging dreading sound of the performance itself, speaks back to the long and dreaded journey of finding yourself in this world. Who am I is a direct question; to question your existence, your purpose and ask more questions. It operates as a totalizing but entry level question that begins the journey of identity. As I fumble through the question, you begin to realise that who we are is not one thing but a whole layered system of our ideas, thoughts, memories, experiences, relationships and values.