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

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.

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

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

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

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.