Jane Taylor
University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research, UWC, Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance
I currently hold the Andrew W Mellon Chair in Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. My interests have been at the point of intersection of scholarly enquiry and artistic practice. I have a theoretical interest in the transformative capacities and limits of the human subject, and this has taken me into a range of distinct but interwoven enquiries. In the 1990s I curated a series of cultural responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. It was for these events ("Fault Lines") that I wrote the play "Ubu and the Truth Commission" [for William Kentridge and Handspring Puppet Company]. The show had an extensive international reach. The period of transition in South Africa provoked an abiding interest in me, in the theory and performance of conversion. I have two published novels, “of Wild Dogs” and “The Transplant Men” and a play “After Cardenio” about an Anatomy At Oxford in 1650. I recently published the monograph, “William Kentridge: Being Led by the Nose” (U of Chicago).
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