According to the organizer, the theme for this year is ‘Uhambo Luyazilawula: Embodied Wandering Practices, the registration of which closes by midnight May 31, South Africa time. A lecturer in the Theatre and Performance at Wits, and who is on the PSi Board said, ” The PSi 2023 conference seeks to platform and engage the method, practices and approaches by creative arts and performance practitioners, as well as thinkers, researchers and writers in the field and practice of performance studies in Africa, and its intersections with ways of being and belonging in the academy and arts facilities
In the words of the Head of School of Arts, Rene Smith, the conference theme is relevant and necessary provocation within global and local concepts where freedom of movement and other human rights, as well as democracy per se, are increasingly under threat, saying mobility and journey are universal and core to human experience, and that Embodied Wandering Practices invites us to imagine a world of inclusion and interconnectedness.
Performance at PSi offered to be a research ground which enables scholars and artistes engage in varieties of topics. The research is interdisciplinary in nature, as well as deep-seated in engagement between theory and practice.
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According to Head of Department of Theatre and Performance at Wits, Fioner Ramsay, the PSi positions both Wits School of Arts and University as the creative and scholarly hubs for knowledge production on performance studies research in Africa.
He added, ” The interdisciplinary nature of the conference reflects the integration of interdisciplinary practices within the school.
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