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

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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 eel 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 1cultural 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 1cultural 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

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Leila 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

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