Qondiswa James
Full Name
Qondiswa James
First Name
Qondiswa
Surname
James
Professional Job
Administrator
Director
Performer
Biography
Qondiswa James is a freelance cultural worker living between Cape Town and Johannesburg. She is an award-winning writer and theatre-maker, performance artist, film and theatre performer, instillation artist, arts facilitator and activist. She has received her Masters in Live Art, Interdisciplinary and Public Art and Public Spheres at the Institute of Creative Arts. Her work engages the socio-political imagination towards mobilising transgression.
She has staged public art interventions at Infecting the City, Live Arts Festival, FNB Art Joburg, Centre for the Less Good Idea, and Les Rencontres a L'échelle (France). Her onscreen appearances include High Fantasy (DIFF 2018 Best South African Film Award, Artistic Bravery Award), and Letters from the Continent (Holland Film Festival). She has directed theatre works including A Faint Patch of Light (winner of a 2019 Standard Bank Ovation Award) and her original play A HOWL IN MAKHANDA (Fleur du Cap Award 2022 Best New Script, Best Original Composition). In 2022 she was a resident artist at Le Artificial Intelligence International Arts Lab (Switzerland). Most recently she directed Silindile, a site-specific theatre intervention about the lives of woman in rural Eastern Cape (Common Ground International Festival).
She has staged public art interventions at Infecting the City, Live Arts Festival, FNB Art Joburg, Centre for the Less Good Idea, and Les Rencontres a L'échelle (France). Her onscreen appearances include High Fantasy (DIFF 2018 Best South African Film Award, Artistic Bravery Award), and Letters from the Continent (Holland Film Festival). She has directed theatre works including A Faint Patch of Light (winner of a 2019 Standard Bank Ovation Award) and her original play A HOWL IN MAKHANDA (Fleur du Cap Award 2022 Best New Script, Best Original Composition). In 2022 she was a resident artist at Le Artificial Intelligence International Arts Lab (Switzerland). Most recently she directed Silindile, a site-specific theatre intervention about the lives of woman in rural Eastern Cape (Common Ground International Festival).
Experience Level
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