Job’s lecture performance grappled with Homi Bhabha’s (1994) notion of the ‘third space’ as a liminal consciousness and argued that the embodiment of liminality and asynchronicity can bring about a re-imagining of processes of transformation in South Africa. The design and content of the performance paper connected to ongoing discourses about and processes of decolonisation in South Africa and were meant to interrogate and redefine Jjob’s own identity and position as a dancer and an academic.
About Jacki Job
Dr Jacki Job is an academic and practitioner at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include interrogating how the application of non-western and indigenous performance methodologies and philosophies such as Butoh, can enhance performance processes and perspectives of the body. She is particularly passionate about contributing to the development of theory and philosophy of the body related to liminality and what it means to be a person in transformation in South Africa.
