LEILA|ANDERSON
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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
 
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  • ABOUT
  • DRAMATURGY
    • Ogutu Muraya
    • Margo van de Linde
    • Ana Wild
    • Gina Alina Patilea
    • Wanjiku Mwawuganga
  • Artwork
  • BORDERLANDS
    • BORDERLANDS FESTIVAL
    • BORDER WALKS
    • BORDERLANDS YOUTH PROGRAM
  • CURATION
    • Public Encounters
    • Infecting the City 2016 - Session 1
    • Infecting the City 2016 - Session 2
    • Infecting the City 2017
    • Borderlands
  • WRITING & TRANSLATION
  • CONTACT & CV