Jyoti Mistry
Filmmaker and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in the Wits School of Arts; taught at New York University, University of Vienna, and Arcada University of Applied Science Polytechnic in Helsinki; her filmography includes films, documentaries and film installations; her work has been seen at the Durban International Film Festival, at the AFROPOLIS exhibition in Cologne and at the exhibition WELRAUM: Die Kunst und ein Traum at the Kunsthalle Vienna; her research areas include cultural policy, questions of identity and multiculturalism; worked as a photography and film curator.
Selected Publications: Seeing Communities out of Context: Notes on a Photographic Exhibition. In: Images and Communities: The Visual Construction of the Social (2007); Johannesburg: Vocabularies of the Visceral and Expressions of Multiple Practices. In: African Cities Reader (2009); The Eighth Muse: Sport and Film, Sport on Film. In: Sport versus Art (2010); We Remember Differently: Race, Memory, Imagination (2012).