Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja

Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja is a Namibian performer, educator and writer with research interests in archives and public culture (performance, visuality and spatiality).

Mushaandja's PhD performance project, Ondaanisa Yo Pomudhime (Dance of the Rubber Tree), at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, was a queer intervention practiced through Oudano, an African concept of performance.

The project has been widely performed at festivals, museums, theatres and archives in Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, Cameroon and Namibia.

Mushaandja is also involved in curative projects like the John Muafangejo Season (2016/2017), Operation Odalate Naiteke (2018/2020) and Owela Festival (2019).