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Curriculum Vitae
Name: Leila Anderson
Date of Birth: 3 June 1984
Nationality: South African
Resident: Belgium / South Africa
Education & Research
2020 Fellowship - Restless Infections Publication Institute for Creative Arts, UCT [ZA]
2017 Curatorial Fellowship Institute for Creative Arts, UCT [ZA]
2013 – 2016 MA Theatre – DasArts Amsterdam School of the Arts [NL]
2003 – 2006 BA Honours Theatre & Performance University of Cape Town [ZA]
With distinction in Drama and Theatre Making and the degree with distinction
Selected Work Experience
2017 - 2020 Curator & Project Leader Borderlands - Public Art Festival [ZA]
2018 - 2019 Guest Lecturer University of Cape Town [ZA]
2017 Curator Infecting the City Festival [ZA]
2016 - 2018 Advisory Panel - Intl. AIR Program Africa Centre [ZA]
2016 Co-Curator - Unfixed (i.c.w. Katy Streek) Huis Marseille - Museumnacht [NL]
2016 Curator and Facilitator Public Encounters - Afrovibes Festival [NL]
2016 Workshop Leader - Performance for Public Space Likeminds Factory [NL]
2016 Curator Infecting the City Sessions 1 & 2 [ZA]
2015 – 16 DasArts Feedback Method - Workshop Facilitator Helsinki Theater School [FI]
Sandberg Institut [NL]
Theaterwelten Festival [DE]
2014 -15 Curatorial Advisor Infecting the City Public Arts Festival [ZA]
2014 Guest Workshop Leader - Winter Academy Utrecht School of the Arts [NL]
2013 Assistant Curator Infecting the City Public Arts Festival [ZA]
2010 – 2013 Guest Lecturer UCT Drama Department [ZA]
International Artist in Residence Programmes
2020 - 21 ProHelvetia - Breathing Space [Int.] i.c.w. Ogutu Muraya
2016 P.A.R.T.S. Summer Studios [BE] i.c.w. Ana Wild
WP Zimmer [BE]
2012 DordtYart Centre for Contemporary Art (NL) Common Sense (3 months)
2012 De Fabriek, Eindhoven (NL) Common Sense (2 months)
2011 Beijing Art Lab (CN) Common Sense (3 months)
2010 V_2 Institute for Unstable Media (NL) i.c.w. Rodney Place (6 weeks)
Selected Projects, Productions & Exhibitions
2021 SPIELART Festival [DE] Roots by Wanjiku Mwawuganga
Maabara [KE] (Dramaturg)
2021 Theaterformen Festival [DE] The ocean will always try to pull you in by Ogutu Muraya
(Dramaturg)
2020 Creativate - Virtual National Arts Festival [ZA] Screen Saver i.c.w. Stan Wannet
(Net art)
2017 - 2019 Cape South - Various Locations [ZA] Borderlands - Actions, Walks, Youth
Various Artists
2019 CC Amstel Theater, Amsterdam [NL] She, Practicing the Future! by Gina Alina Patilea
(Dramaturg)
2018 Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam [NL] Me, the Beguines & the Communion by Margo van de Linde
(Dramaturg)
2017 - 19 Batard Festival, Brussels [BE] Because I Always Feel Like Running by Ogutu Muraya
Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam [NL] (Dramaturg)
Spielart Festival, Munich [DE]
Theaterformen Festival [DE]
Zurcher Theaterspektakel [CH]
2016 Greylight Projects [BE] Aleph by Ana Wild Room Dances Festival, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem [IL] (Dramaturg)
2016 DasArts [NL] In a Time of Disaster
(performance)
2015 Afrovibes Festival [NL] The Land Beyond - Common Sense
(performance)
2015 Gaea Space [CN] - group show SHOW ME Dead Branches of Possible Futures
(Installation)
2014 DasArts [ZA/ NL] Boundaries of [Human] Nature
(lecture performance)
2014 DasArts [NL] – IT Project – Ana Wild Home Mountain
(performer)
2014 DasArts - Master Proof – Emke Idema [NL] RULE™
(performer)
2013 DasArts [NL] Strange City
(public performance, video)
2013 Afrovibes Festival [NL] Afrika Lacht – Common Sense*
(installation & film)
2013 Commune.1 Gallery (ZA) Rational Animal - Common Sense
(solo show)
2012 GIPCA Live Art (ZA) A Report on the Intellectual Tradition of Self-Generating Commune.1 Gallery (ZA) Systems of Information: With an Elaboration on the Formal Syntax of the Absurd – Common Sense
(live installation)
2012 In-House Project The Diagnosis – Common Sense
Goethe Institute Johannesburg ( ZA) (live installation)
Infecting the City (ZA)
2012 DordtYart Centre for Contemporary Art (NL) 88 – Common Sense
Dordrecht Museum (NL) (interactive video installation)
2012 De Fabriek (NL) Afrika Lacht – Common Sense
Afrovibes Festival (NL) (total installation – solo show)
2012 On the Edge of Wrong Festival (ZA) Afrika Lag [Deel 2] - Common Sense
(multi-media performance)
2012 Messages from the Sky Film Festival (ZA) My Beach i.c.w. Clara Tilve
Last Chance Travel Agency, Seattle (US) (video – a photo roman)
2011-12 Kunstenlab Deventer (NL) Who knows what it is, this mysterious substance that
Stedlijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL) everyone seems to be so worried about identifying
- Common Sense
(live installation)
2011 On the Edge of Wrong Festival (ZA) EXOTIC ALIEN
(solo performance)
2010 MAA Tila - X-op, Helsinki (FI) Foreign Affair: Trotsky i.c.w. Rodney Place
Bunnen Kunstmuseum, Bonn (DE) (solo multimedia performance)
V2_Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam (NL)
Resolution Gallery, Johannesburg (ZA)
2010 Infecting the City Public Arts Festival (ZA) Imperfections
i.c.w. Owen Manamela & Mdu Kweyama
(site-specific physical performance)
2008/9 Out the Box Festival (ZA) Inkosazana i.c.w. Cindy Mkaza
Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK) (visual theatre - writer & director)
2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK) Wrecked i.c.w. Kati Francis
(visual theatre – director)
2009 FNB Dance Umbrella (ZA) Out of the eater came forth meat/Out of the strong came forth sweet i.c.w ERF [81] cultural collective
(live art)
2008 National Arts Festival Fringe (ZA) Isabella dir. Rob Van Vuuren
Intimate Theatre (ZA) (physical theatre – performer)
2008 Infecting the City Public Arts Festival (ZA) 22 Minutes 37 Seconds
(live public art – co-director & designer)
2008/7 Spier Contemporary (ZA) We are too many i.c.w. ERF [81] cultural collective
(live art - solo performer)
2007 Out the Box Festival (ZA) Suckle i.c.w The Chameleon Collective
(visual theatre – writer, director & designer)
2007 National Arts Festival Fringe (ZA) There Were 5 in the Bed i.c.w. The Chameleon Collective
Intimate Theatre (ZA) (physical theatre – co-creator & performer)
2007 Fresh II - National Arts Festival (ZA) Shlof shoyn, mayn Kind
Out the Box Festival (ZA) (site-specific performance)
2007 FNB Dance Umbrella (ZA) 6 Minutes i.c.w. ERF [81] cultural collective
National Arts Festival Fringe (ZA) (live art)
Publications
2016 Anderson, L. LEXICON in exhibition catalogue, Stan Wannet, Chateau Oiron, Centre des Monuments Nationaux
2015 Anderson, L. Introduction to the Feedback Method in Theatrium Magazine
2007 Anderson, L. Obsession and the Other: A critique of the influence of the Japanese aesthetic in the work of Geoffrey Hyland in South African Theatre Journal