Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Leila Anderson

Leila Anderson (born 1984) is a South African performance artist whose work balances the theatric, the visual, and the performative to create events on stage and in installations. She is also a part-time lecturer in contemporary performance at the University of Cape Town. Additionally, Anderson has won several awards for her costume and design work.

Exhibitions
2012 2011 worried about identifying'' Stedelijk Museum‘s Hertogenbosch Art Lab
 * Infecting the City
 * ''Who knows what it is this mysterious substance that everyone seems to be so
 * Who knows what it is… - research and development phase on residency at Beijing
 * EXOTIC ALIEN – photographic series created with Guy De Lancey
 * EXOTIC ALIEN - solo performance in On the Edge of Wrong Festival

2010
 * Foreign Affair: Trotsky – solo multi-media performance, X-op Helsinki and at the Kunstmuseum Bonn
 * Foreign Affair: Trotsky – 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 " Dinner for Three – actor, co-writer
 * Inkosazana– director, writer & designer, premiered on the Edinburgh Fringe
 * Wrecked – director, co-designer, performed on the Edinburgh Fringe
 * Her lips moving... (so to speak) – performer, co-designer, National Arts Festival Fringe
 * Out of the eater came forth meat/ Out of the strong came forth sweet –performer, collaborator, FNB Dance Umbrella

The Diagnosis
Day installation and performance, as part of the 2012 Infecting the City festival in Cape Town, 2011

Foreign Affiatr: Trotsky
Live performance, video, Johannesburg, 16 minutes, 2010

Inkosazana
Performance, Edinburgh Fringe, 60 minutes, 2009