Body Politic 15 : Translations
Live Performance
Curated by Louise WESTERHOUT
16+
This 15th iteration is entitled Translation.
If you are interested in presenting work, or have any queries, please DM Louise Westerhout via Instagram.
Photo by Louise Westerhout
ABOUT BODY POLITIC
Founded in 2018 by Louise Westerhout , BODY POLITIC is an informal Live Art event.
We invite independent artists to bring their investigations, AS THEY ARE, to be authentically witnessed, to open discourse, to refuse crystallisation. Body Politic is an informal, inclusive, queer-normative space which illuminates ways performing artists address their bodies’ complicity with, or resistance to, dominant social ideologies and structures. We acknowledge the body as a never-neutral site for conveying meaning; an always necessarily politicised site onto which meaning is inscribed. So far the work of over 65 local and international performance artists has been showcased including Lorin Sookool, Kaulana Williams, Amy Louise Wilson, Qondiswa James, Kanya Viljoen, Lungile Lallie, Genna Gardini, Lukhanyiso Skosana, Kopano Maroga. Naledi Majola, Nadine McKenzie, Themba Mbuli, Kanya Viljoen, Mikki George, Mamello Makhetha, Anathi Rubela, Kylie Fisher.
Louise even held Body Politic 11: transplant live on Instagram in the Stem Cell Transplant Unit in 2023!
Please note Body Politic is always a non institutional, Transformative Justice and consent based safe space for artists and audience. It is designed as an antidote against the coercive often prescriptive way artists must perform and tolerate unsafe spaces. Louise is always “tell-able” should there be any issues or harmdoers present in the space.
Photo of Louise by Isabella Lovgren