Artist Residency: Peter Van Heerden
Ubuntu by Peter Van Heerden.
University of Minnesota, Rarig Center.
Curator & Producer. Megan Lewis 2009.
University of Minnesota, Rarig Center.
Curator & Producer. Megan Lewis 2009.
In 2009, while a professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, I curated and produced a week-long residency with South African performance artist Peter Van Heerden. Van Heerden lead performance art workshops with students and performed his solo piece about masculinity called Ubuntu. We collaborated on public lectures contextualizing his work. Van Heerden's oeuvre is the subject of a chapter in my book Performing Whitely in the Postcolony titled "Abject Afrikaner, Iconclast Trekker: Peter Van Heerden's Performance Interventions within the Laagers of White Masculinity."
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