Performance Art and interdisciplinary collaboration have long and chequered histories. Globally, these developments have been anarchic as well as institutional, embracing a paradox inherent in attempts at formalising a process of breaking boundaries and transgressing forms that have been hermetically sealed.
A post-apartheid South African context in processes of transformation and decoloniality, provides space for such impulses and discourse: those that look at the paradox of containment and anarchy and discourses that argue for institutionalizing inventiveness and creativity in times of acute change, reconstruction and redress.
The colloquium brought performance, keynote talks and panel discussions together to consider this. A cross section of these events can be accessed below.
