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LEILA ANDERSON

New works in progress:
'Afrika Lag',a live film/sound experiment, for On the Edge of Wrong.
http://www.edgeofwrong.com/2012
'The Diagnosis', a durational installation/performance, for Infecting the City.
http://www.infectingthecity.com/2011/

(both works created in collaboration with artist Stan Wannet.)

'my beach' - a new work with photographer Clara Tilve. A photo roman. A personal reflection on the threat of climate change. Created for Messages from the Sky Film Festival, COP17.

'Who knows what it is this mysterious substance that everyone seems to be so worried about identifiying'

Leila Anderson and Dutch artist Stan Wannet's multi-media sculptural installation, was at the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch [NL] as part of Berichten Van Het Front, a group show with the Nieuw Brabants Front. They performed at the exhibition opening on 17th September, activating the installation as masked inter-gender versions of themselves. It now moves to Kunstenlab, Deventer [NL], opening on 14.02.12
See their blog at www.stanwannet.com for documentation of the work process in China and the Netherlands.

Stan and Leila recently returned from China where they spent 3 months on residency at the Beijing Art Lab [CN]. In June Leila spent two superb weeks at Festival Theaterformen in Hannover [DE] as a festival grant awardee.

Leila Anderson is an independent Cape Town-based performance maker, designer and performer. She has developed a diverse body of work, unified by strong visuals and a focus on the physical presence of the body. Working and collaborating across disciplines, she enjoys hybrid forms. She is not interested in the boundaries between artistic disciplines. She is interested in surreal juxtaposition, abstraction, metaphor and play.

Recent collaboration with photographer Guy de Lancey on a series of studio stills as an offshoot of EXOTIC ALIEN. The digital prints will be exhibited in the coming months.

Leila's previous work includes, amongst others: the solo work 'EXOTIC ALIEN' for Edge of Wrong Festival (2011), 'Imperfections' for Infecting the City (2010), 'Inkosazana' for the Edinburgh Fringe (2009)& Out the Box Festival (2010), 'Wrecked' for the Edinburgh Fringe (2009), 'Suckle' for Out the Box Festival (2008), 'Shlof shoyn, mayn Kind' for National Arts Festival (2007) & Out the Box Festival (2007).

Leila collaborated as a performer over several years with the erf [81] cultural collective: '6 Minutes' FNB Dance Umbrella (2007) & Out the Box Festival (2007), 'out of the eater came forth meat/ out of the strong came forth sweet' for FNB Dance Umbrella (2009), and her solo performance work 'we are too many' (2007/8) selected for the Spier Contemporary. Erf [81] is comprised of performance artist/ trek leader Peter Van Heerden & social activist/ artist/ legendary urban farmer Andre Laubscher, along with constant collaborators, photographer Ant Strack and filmmaker Brad Schaffer

Her collaborative performance/ video/ print exhibition with director/artist Rodney Place, 'Foreign Affair: Trotsky', ran at Resolution Gallery, Johannesburg, between March and June 2010. She spent 5 weeks in 2010 on residency with Place at V2_ Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, Netherlands, working on the technological development of the performance. Towards the end of 2010 she completed a series of solo performances of 'Foreign Affair: Trotksy' at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (co-produced by Videonale) and in Helsinki as part of X-op, an EU cultural project.

Leila has designed costume and set for over 24 productions in the last four years, garnering two nominations for Best Costume: a Naledi Award nomination for QUACK! dir. Rob Murray (2011) and a Fleur du Cap Award nomination for Women Beware Women dir. Geoffrey Hyland (2007). Her own work develops from a strong visual aesthetic.

Leila graduated from the University of Cape Town Theatre and Performance program with distinctions in Theatre-making and Drama. In 2010 she was invited to join her alma mater as a part-time guest lecturer, teaching courses from 2nd to 4th year in theatre making, contemporary performance and the performance of heightened text. In 2011 she again ran the practice based course in contemporary performance for the 3rd year class. In 2012 Leila will lead a contemporary performance course of her own devising - The live body now: sex, identity & performance.


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