Chapter in
Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies
(ed Judith Rudakoff)
Exile Builds Performance:
A critical analysis of performing satirical images across cultures through media
From the editor (Judith Rudakoff):
"Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socioeconomic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing Exile presents an inclusive mix of voices from varied cultural and geographic affiliations. The collected essays in this book focus on live performances that were inspired by living in exile. Chapters blend close critical analysis and ethnography to document and interrogate performances and the contexts that inform them. In a world where exiled populations continue to grow, the role of art to document and engage with these experiences will continue to be essential, and this diverse book offers an important model for understanding the rich body of work being created today."
Article in
RiDE
Vol 21, 2016
Bricolage: re-discovering history through intermediality and performance
A report on the UCT/CityVarsity production of A Day, Across at the Cape Town Fringe 2014
A Day, Across, performed by the CityVarsity School of Creative Arts at the Cape Town Fringe 2014, was a student production that investigated the link between the youth of South Africa and the centennial of the start of World War I. This paper presents a brief analysis of the rehearsal process as well as certain performance sequences in order to unpack the dual application of bricolage and intermediality within a theatrical and pedagogical context. It proposes a learning environment where the embodiment and exchange of images allows the students/performers to enter into a dialogue with history through their bodies.
Chapter in
Cape of Flows
(ed Mark Fleishman)
Playtext: The Life and Work of Petrović Petar
Review from Estelle Olivier (SATJ)
‘Play Text: The Life and Work of Petrović Petar’ by Sanjin Muftic is the final chapter in this book. Muftić shares his personal experiences of growing up as a migrant child. He touches on themes such as being confronted by a hierarchy of cultures in every new place he arrived; the continuous processes of negotiation of perceptions; the repeated ‘building of a new home … fraught with the struggle against disappointment and comparison making’ (p. 198). The second part of the chapter provides the full text of The Life and Work of Petrović Petar (2007). This text is filled with imagery bringing the themes discussed to the reader in a creative and visceral way.
