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Artist Bios « Infecting the City 2010
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Margie Mackay

Margie Mackay

Margie Mackay is a Melbourne-based Director, Designer and Performer working in the fields of performance art, visual and ritual theatre. A graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts with a Masters in Theatre Design, and a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne, Margie graduated from the John Bolton Theatre School in its inaugural year (1991), and has just embarked on a PhD read more...

Lerato Shadi

Lerato Shadi

Lerato Shadi is a South African visual/performance artist and currently lives and works in Johannesburg. She holds a BFA from the University of Johannesburg and  has exhibited extensively over the past two years. Her solo video exhibition Aboleleng and Hema showed in the Side Gallery at Michael Stevenson in Cape Town and in the Project Room at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2007. read more...

Ibrahim Quraishi

Ibrahim Quraishi

Ibrahim Quraishi belongs to a new generation of conceptual artists who are challenging our understanding of visual performance and its relationship to the broader cultural perspective. Quraishi was one of the recipients of the first Ö1 Prix Jardin d’Europe Prize in 2008 for his Installation Islamic Violins at Kunsthalle. His work consciously examines the dynamics of "migration", dispo read more...

Gilbert Douglas

Gilbert Douglas

Gilbert Douglas is a founder member of the Tumbuka Dance Company for modern dance. Founded  in Harare in 1992, Tumbuka has toured throughout Zimbabwe and internationally to Senegal, France, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Germany , Angola, South America, Belgium, and Denmark. Cecchetti trained, Gilbert has also trained in modern and contemporary dance forms as well as classical read more...

Athina Vahla

Athina Vahla

Athina Vahla- Greek citizen living in London, UK Athina Vahla is a London-based independent artist and teacher. Originally from Greece, having  won the Greek National Choreographic Award, she took up residence in London. Athina was awarded two scholarships to further her dance studies at the Laban School where she received the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award in 1994, before undertak read more...

Anthea Moys

Anthea Moys

Anthea Moys is an artist who uses performance and video to explore notions of play, the pathetic and the 'useless'.  Anthea’s happenings seem to challenge the conventional sturm und drang seriousness of much other performance art. She is interested in how ‘play’ more readily implicates and involves the audience; invoking a three-way dialogue between herself, her audience and t read more...

Andrew Buckland

Andrew Buckland

Since 1981, Andrew Buckland has produced original theatre work of a consistently high standard, which is seen to be at the forefront of theatre development in South Africa. Employing a dynamic and exciting combination of visual comedy, sophisticated political satire, clowning, physical theatre, mime and an explosive performance style, the works of Andrew Buckland have become synonymous w read more...