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The New Parthenon

Group exhibitions very often provide platforms for interpretation of art within a broader conversation. Whilst solo exhibitions situate an artist’s work within a concentrated practice and the questions that a particular way of working provokes, group exhibitions allow for a more contextual approach; which artists are working in what ways and how does this locate…

Looking After Freedom

Freedom. A notion that has had a complex history within South Africa’s political and cultural landscape. Can it be viewed as an end point which can be monumentalized and celebrated with ballot papers as evidence of this? What about the similarities and disparities between individual and collective imaginaries that revolve around what this notion means…

Jana+Koos – The Free Art Project

The collaborative studio Jana+Koos are known for a variety of projects with unpredictable art execution that ranges from work on small passion projects to global brands. The list goes on and on but I believe the ones they are best known for include Simon + Mary, MESH and Nike ZA. Koos jubilantly reflects on the…

Diskotekah // an art installation set to techno

Diskotekah (or DTK) was dreamt up on a beach 3 years ago by two best friends and stylists Gavin Mikey Collins & Michael Beaumont Cooper. “The idea came from a conversation we were having discussing the state of the world and how to us it felt like we were living at the end of times,”…

King ADZ x Nando’s: Documenting Johannesburg’s street art scene

Johannesburg. The city with an electric energy that often has people forming love-hate relationships with the lifestyles it engenders. The streets are the storytellers of the city’s complex history. Bright, colourful characters and lettering have been woven into the city streets by well-known and emerging street artists, providing a layered and living alternative documentation and…

Lawrence Lek // Imagining a future without human labour

Robots being programmed to take on human characteristics and functions. This has been a dream and fear which has haunted the human imagination with the development of science and computer functioning. Big screen productions such as I, Robot (2004) as well as small screen works such as Humans (2015) have played on the conflicted emotions…

Surface – there’s more than meets the eye

The art one tends to encounter in alleyways generally consists of graffiti and street art, with the small possibility of some sort of urban-style installation (the presence of which, one is never certain of as being intentional or simply accidental detritus from a maintenance job). What I hadn’t expected wandering down a particularly brightly-lit alleyway…