Kopano Maroga ZA

Kopano Maroga is a performance artist, writer, cultural worker and co-founding director of the independent dance, movement and embodied politics organization ANY BODY ZINE (anybodyzine.org.za). They are a Master of Arts candidate in Live Art, Interdisciplinary and Public Art through the Institute of Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town. Their interests lie at the intersection of art, social justice and healing knowledge systems. Their current research is in the potential of disidentification and biomythography as tools for destabilizing rigid identity theory. They very much believe in the power of love as weapon of mass construction. Since May 2019 they work fulltime as dramaturge at Art Center Vooruit in Ghent.