From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always that refusal to settle in one place, or one discipline or medium.

I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.