Leila Anderson (born 1984) is a South African performance artist whose work balances the theatrical, the visual, and the performative. Her ongoing collaboration with Dutch artist Stan Wannet has produced several live installation works during the 2010s. She is a part-time lecturer in contemporary performance at the University of Cape Town.
Career
Performances & Exhibitions 2012 Infecting the City The Diagnosis - i.c.w. Stan Wannet - Shop 4 Allianz House, Infecting the City Public Arts Festival Afrika Lag [Deel 2] - i.c.w. Stan Wannet - On the Edge of Wrong Festival, Commune 1 2011 Who knows what it is this mysterious substance that everyone seems to be so worried about identifying - i.c.w. Stan Wannet - Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch Who knows what it is... - i.c.w. Stan Wannet - research and development phase on residency at Beijing Art Lab EXOTIC ALIEN – photographic series created with Guy De Lancey EXOTIC ALIEN - solo performance in On the Edge of Wrong Festival
2010 Foreign Affair: Trotsky – i.c.w Rodney Place - solo multi-media performance, X-op Helsinki and at the Kunstmuseum Bonn Foreign Affair: Trotsky – i.c.w. Rodney Place - solo performance with print exhibition, Resolution Gallery Imperfections – co-director, designer & performer, Infecting the City, Spier Public Arts Festival Inkosazana – director, writer & designer, Out the Box Festival
2009 Inkosazana– director, writer & designer, premiered on the Edinburgh Fringe Wrecked – director, co-designer, performed on the Edinburgh Fringe Out of the eater came forth meat/ Out of the strong came forth sweet – with the erf cultural collective, FNB Dance Umbrella " Dinner for Three – actor, co-writer
2008 Suckle- director, writer & designer, Out the Box Festival we are too many - solo performance i.c.w. Peter Van Heerden - erf cultural collective, Spier Contemporary
2007 Shlof shoyn, mayn Kind - director, performer, Fresh II - National Arts Festival 'Publication: Leila Anderson, ‘Obsession and the other: A critique of the influence of the Japanese aesthetic in the work of Geoffrey Hyland’, South African Theatre Journal SATJ 20 (2006)
Notable works
The Diagnosis
Live installation and performance, as part of the 2012 Infecting the City festival in Cape TownLeila Anderson, Selected Photographic Documentation, 2007-2011, http://www.leilaanderson.com/resume/Leila%20Anderson%20Docu.pdf
Who knows what it is, this mysterious substance that everyone seems to be so worried about identifying
Installation and performance i.c.w. Stan Wannet, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch.
Foreign Affair: Trotsky
Live performance, video, Johannesburg, 16 minutes, 2010 i.c.w. Rodney Place
Inkosazana
Performance, Edinburgh Fringe, 60 minutes, 2009
References
External links Artist website The Diagnosis, Infecting the City: Artist site Stan Wannet: