Georgia Wall

An experimental film about adapting in a foreign land. Featuring excerpts from Memoirs of the Life and Public Service of Sir Stamford Raffles by his widow, Lady Sophia Hull Raffles (b. May 5, 1786, London – d. December 12, 1858).

Chancre – a painless ulceration formed during the primary stage of syphilis. A transmission and transmutation of a memory couched in shame. This essay video is bookend with performance documentation from the re-enactment of Brother Cane in Chicago, 2011. Featuring excerpts from The Writings of a Savage by Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Malay Magic (1900) by Walter William Skeat and T.S. Eliot's Fragment of an Agon (Sweeney Agonistes).