Publications
As a researcher and academic, I have written several articles, conference papers, and book chapters, sometimes in collaboration with other researchers or artists. These explore a range of themes, but tend to focus predominantly on archival engagements occurring through the body and performance, methodologies relating to practice-as-research and embodied research, and critical reflections on practice in relation to performance philosophies.
Some of these publications are open-access and thus freely available. If there is an article or paper listed below that you would like to access but can’t, please email me directly.
“Legacies and dusty dances: Archival practices and the ‘will to archive’ in South African contemporary dance”. Confluences 8. Proceedings of the eighth South African Dance conference. UCT School of Dance. (2015)
Access via: https://humanities.uct.ac.za/centre-ctdps/research-conferences/confluences
“A critical analysis of Nicola Elliott’s Run! (2013)”. A Collection of Essays and Research Materials about Run!. Published online by Nicola Elliott. (2015)
“Seeing and being seen: Unpacking the modalities of perception and experience in Nicola Elliott’s Run! (2013)”. A Collection of Essays and Research Materials about Run!. Published online by Nicola Elliott. (2015)
“Effigy in the Archive: Ritualising performance and the dead in Contemporary South African Live Art Practice”. In Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa. J. Pather and C. Boulle. Eds. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. (2019)
Access via: https://shop.wits.ac.za/product/act-of-transgression-by-patherj-boulle/
“Opening through ecology: conceptualising the role of open-platform, immersive performance experiences within the closed spaces of the university.” Co-authored with Gavin Krastin. Confluences 10. Proceedings of the tenth South African Dance Conference. Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, University of Cape Town. (2019)
Access via: https://humanities.uct.ac.za/centre-ctdps/research-conferences/confluences
“Reaching back to move forward: Performing the archive as interdisciplinary artistic-educational process”. Co-authored with Gerard M. Samuel. In Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change. C. Svendler Nielsen & S. Burridge. Eds. London: Routledge. (2020)
Anarchival dance: choreographic archives and the disruption of knowledge. PhD Thesis. Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, University of Cape Town. (2020)
Access via: https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/32318?show=full
“Some opening provocations: dancing archives” [Keynote address]. Jomba! Masihambisane Dialogues #2 Dancing Archives Colloquium Proceedings. Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal. (2022)
Access via: https://jomba.ukzn.ac.za/masihambisane-dialogues/issue-2/
“Twelve [queer] labours: the mundane as catalyst for the archiving of queer transgressive joy”. Performance Research, 28(4): 42-50. (2023)
Access via: https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2295727
“Thinking through micropractice: an embodied interrogation of the archive”. In Making/Doing/Thinking: Methods for Performance research. M. Fleishman & A. Halligey. Eds. UCT Libraries. (2024)
Access via: https://openbooks.uct.ac.za/uct/catalog/view/70/80/2712
Portals into Praxis: Artists’ Reflections on the Live Art Arcade 2018-2022. G. Krastin & A. Parker. Eds. The Live Art Arcade. (2024).
Access via: https://liveartarcade.co.za/portals-into-praxis/