Performance Art

The Joburg-born artist’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives

A one-woman performance that confronts memory, violence and complicity, as Vuyelwa Maluleke reclaims language to tell a black queer township story on her own terms

Melding protest, lyricism and ancestral tradition, Asanda Ruda’s Kemet is a visceral journey of emancipation, healing and artistic defiance

Drawn to collaboration, Wezile Mgibe seeks new ways of performing and presenting his work

‘It was hard to survive without performance’

‘I remember that I was supposed to perform about two or three songs. But the DJ ended up adding another song because everybody was just having fun’

Dear Ribane’s fluidity and seamless movement between artistic mediums makes enclosing them into a single realm of art

Jina’s process of collaboration has also led to the formation of #Femme­inPublic.

Performance of silent human statue is about fulfilling the dream of being an actor, not about the money.

A genderqueer artist is going boldly, goldly naked to trumpet the sacred human form.

The do-it-yourself ethic of the city’s artists has whipped up a whirlwind of acclaim and worldwide recognition.

Russia’s Pyotr Pavlensky’s nailing of his scrotum to Red Square isn’t as unique as you might think: some have done much more in the name of art.

Donna Kukama – winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance Art – speaks to the M&G about breaking a leg and "being f***ing real".

Wearing a bird costume, South African performance artist Steven Cohen was arrested for sexual exhibitionism, says a report.

Yann Marrusich’s acclaimed, mysterious "Bleu Remix" will be performed in Cape Town on Tuesday evening.