My Resume

In this resume, you will find a comprehensive overview of my skills, experiences and accomplishments.

Goitseone Montsho is a South African poet, storyteller, performance artist, and frequent collaborator who is based in Berlin. Her work has been staged in Gropius Bau, African Book Festival Berlin, and Time of the writer at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. In Basel, she participated in the Image Afrique Festival as both a performance artist and poet. She most recently contributed an essay to the collection Could this be Love? (S.Hirsbrunner). She co-hosts the Berlin-based English-language podcast Tanti-Table.

EXPERIENCE


2022

Poetry Meets Zanele Muholi Time of the Writer (UKZN): Performance Artist/Film & Panelist
African Book Festival Berlin: Panelist / Performance Art / Film

2021

Sophiensale (Politics of love): Panelist
Curating(In)visibilities: Performance Artist
Brown Sugar/Healing: Healing / Spirituality
Could this be Love?: Essayist

2020

Altar Berlin: Performance Artist
Live Chile! (poetry video): Costume design /styling
Tanzschreiber: Article

2019

Tanti Table Podcast: Co-host
HKW (was macht diverse): Performance Art

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


PERFORMANCES

2022 African Book Festival Berlin
2022 Poetry Meets Zanele Muholi, Gropius Bau
2021 Hüll MedienWerkstatt, Curating (In)visibilities, Art Festival
2020 Altar Berlin, Ball Der Vielfalt in Pankow, Berlin
2019 Was Divers MAcht, HKW, Berlin
2018 Poets’ Corner: Lyrik in Berliner Bezirken, Haus für Poesie, Berlin
2018 Parataxe III : Sprichst du Afrikanisch? Literarische Colloquium,Berlin
2017 Das Millieu der Toten: Teil 2: Die Leerstelle, Mobile Academy, Berlin
2017 A History of Remembering, Kunsthalle Hamburgerplatz, Berlin

PRINT MEDIA

2020 What Is Afghan Punk Rock Anyway? Issue I, ‘A God For The Girl Child’, pg
2020 Jill Beytin, ‘13 Berlin Based podcasts that kept us sane…’, Lola Mag 1 May 2020
2018 Stadtsprachen No.5, ‘Frauen die Sprangen’ ; Stadtsprachen Magazin, 7 March 2018
2017 Verena Leuken, ‘Spuren des Schmerzes’, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 8 December 2017
2017 Brigitte Derneburg, ‘auch im Büro gerne…’, Die Tagezeitung, 14 August 2017
2017 Harry Nutt, ‘Im Reich der Schnitte’, BErliner ZEitung 14 August 2017
2017 7th European Conference on African Studies, A* Magazine, June 2017

WEBSITE PUBLICATIONS

2022 Africa Book Festival; https://tow.ukzn.ac.za/2022-participant/goitseone-montsho/
2022 Berliner Festspiele, Gropius Bau; https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/berliner-festspiele/
programm/bfs-gesamtprogramm/programmdetail_376278.html
2022 Time of the Writer; https://tow.ukzn.ac.za/2022-participant/goitseone-montsho/
2020 Tanzschreiber, ‘ https://tanzschreiber.de/en/tag/goitseone-montsho-en/
-’Commanding The Relentless Gaze…’
2019 KiWit, Deutsche antidiscriminierungstage 2019, ‘Was Divers Macht’,Dec, 2 2019
p:63
https://www.kiwit.org/media/material-downloads/dokumentation_deutsche_an-
tidiskriminierungstage_2019.pdf
2018 -Stadtsprachen Magazin, ‘Frauen die Sprangen’, 2018
https://stadtsprachen.de/de/text/to-women-who-jumped-the-ledge/?Deutsch

RADIO

2019-PRESENT Bear Radio, ‘Tanti-Table’, co-host

About Me

Goitseone Montsho is a South African poet, storyteller, performance artist, and frequent collaborator who is based in Berlin.

Get In Touch

  • montshogoitseone@gmail.com
  • (+49) 176 254 28934