Are you curious about performance art? Play and public space? In the material and mechanics of performance work? Are you interested in artist to audience relationship in this work? Are you wanting to create and test out something new and get feedback? Or are you just wanting to meet some new folk and do something completely different in this fantastic city?!

Yes? Then this is for you! 

You can't teach performance art. There is no rulebook. Performance art is essentially an anarchic process that lives in between the rules and constantly remakes and rewrites them anew. But we can talk, discuss, play and test things out in order to understand this wild beast a bit better: To find out what your relationship is to this art form. It can also, believe it or not, be really FUN! Come find out!  NO PREVIOUS ARTISTIC TRAINING NEEDED! JUST COME, DIVE IN AND PLAY!

Some things we will be dealing with: 

·       Time - crescendo, duration, time (like paint is to a painter) as the very material that performance is made of

·       Audience(s) - who are you talking to and why? What are the rules? Is it participatory? Is it clear? 

·       Site - where are you making work? Why are you doing it there? Do you take something with? Leave something behind?

·       Self - is it all about you or is it about the in between - between you and site, between you and audiences? 

·       Documentation - how does it live on? 

We need a minimum of 5 people! Bring your friends 

Email will be sent to individual participants closer to the time with specific requirements (nothing hectic!) and readings of interest. 

 NO PREVIOUS ARTISTIC TRAINING NEEDED! JUST COME, DIVE IN AND PLAY!

Anthea is an artist, a teacher, a play facilitator, a public speaker, a constant learner and a bad singer who has started an experimental choir. In 2008 she completed her Masters at Wits with a focus on play and performance in public space. In 2013 she won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance Art (inaugural) where she created her “Vs.” series, which embraced failure and reimagined winning as the act of learning itself. In May 2015 she participated in the Johannesburg Pavilion residency at the 56th Venice Biennale. In 2016, Anthea co-initiated and produced the Hey Hillbrow let’s dlala! public art parade and was a workshop facilitator for My Alex – Youth Perceptions of Place. In March 2017 Anthea was the keynote speaker CounterPlay festival in Denmark. Anthea lives, learns, works and plays in Johannesburg. 

Anthea has dedicated the most part of her life to the study and practice of play and performance in public space and her playground has predominantly been Johannesburg.