Louise Westerhout

Louise (she/they) is a queer, disabled performance artist, curator, writer, activist, therapist, educator based in Cape Town, South Africa. Their research is dedicated to themes of consciousness, posthumanism, crip queer aesthetics, Wicca, anti-speciesism, trauma and healing, social justice. They have taught Disability and Gender Justice as well as Transformative Justice in South Africa, Switzerland and Sweden.

Their critically acclaimed performances have been featured on all major South African platforms: National Arts Festival, Infecting The City, ICA Live Art Festival, Artsability Festival, Vrystaat Kunstefees, as well as Beweggrund (Switzerland), Berlin and Beyond DisDance (Cyprus). They were Artist in Residence in the prestigious University of Johannesburg’s Arts & Culture programme for 2024.

Photograph by Isabella Lovgren.