Description: Addresses the aesthetics of refusal and forms of resistance to ongoing injustice within contemporary South African performance thirty years post-Democracy.
Brief description: Aylwyn Walsh is Professor of Performance and Social Change in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a scholar-artist-activist in arts in criminal justice, arts and mental health, and abolitionist organising as well as in community settings in South Africa, Greece and the UK. Books include Prison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire (2019) and the co-edited Remapping Crisis: A Guide to Athens (2014).
Review Quotes: "A superb piece of scholarship which contributes original, vital understandings of the role of arts in confronting, negotiating and activating in post-colonial, post-gross oppression, post-conflict situations." --Alexandra Halligey, Senior Lecturer and Head of Department for Interdisciplinary Arts and Culture Studies, Wits University, South Africa.