As a visual and performance artist, my practice over the past 20 years, has attempted to build for myself and others, context responsive approaches as well as platforms that open pathways and strategies to rigorous and generative collaborative relationships between art and other fields, including physics, history, museology, philosophy and literature. I have developed a combination of an introspective, process-led studio practice and a collaborative communal practice. I live and work between South Africa, Paris and Austria.

In the studio my personal collections and observations manifest themselves as objects and actions and feed into my interest in systems and processes. My nucleus returns again and again to life, death, growth and collapse. This process extends itself into immersive installations, animated films and staged performances.

My communal practice involves co-founding, with William Kentridge, The Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg in 2016, today I am its director and lead its international projects. The Centre is a physical and immaterial space to pursue incidental discoveries made in the process of producing work. We take our impulse from the Setswana proverb ‘E a re ngaka kgolo go retelelwa, go alafe ngakana/ If the good doctor can’t cure you, find the less good doctor’. In over nine years, more than 2500 artists have created performances, films, installations and musical works that respond and generate through energy and complexity.

In 2020 I co-founded The Zone: a collective that calls for the development of an entirely novel transdisciplinary and deliberative approach to inquiry and curation across the arts, sciences and philosophy based in Vienna, Austria. Together with my collaborators; Johannes Jaeger, Marcus Neustetter and Başak Şenova we see The Zone as a meeting place, where experimenters and explorers are not defined by titles or disciplines, but by what lies between their knowledge network and personal experience. For the past two years The Zone has been affiliated with a transdisciplinary research project called Pushing the Boundaries, located at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, the research revolves around living organisms and their evolution, revealing the limitations of our mechanistic world view.

My research and artistic collaboration with Université Paris 8 and in particular with professor Anna Seiderer stretches back to 2017. This work has centred on collections of objects created in colonial contexts, looking for ways to renew their addresses, to reframe their contexts and to weave new links. Anna Seiderer and I have co-initiated the Arts, Archives & Performances series of seminars, workshop, performances and now an exhibition (which have travelled from Paris (2021) to Johannesburg (2022) to Porto Novo, Benin (2023) and back to Paris (2024 & 2025). These ongoing engagements have led to multiple academic and artistic responses from myself as well as the many researchers and artists we have invited into the collaboration. They are responses that seek to agitate archival material from the frozen and dead states in which they are held and into direct relationship with the body – with breath, voice, movement and life.