This week we visited new media artist Simphiwe Xulu, aka Mr MediaX, at Assemblage Studios to check out the beginnings of the logo he created with Sanele Omari Jali for the “I Make Africa’ project being hosted in Harare. We also share some behind the scenes footage from our latest cover shoot with the talented…
What we do online echoes in eternity. Few people know this better than Montle Moroosi aka Big Space. “Damage has been done. There’s nothing I can do about it anymore. If I Google my name, it’s whatever it is.” If you do choose to google Montle’s name, you’ll see on the first page that in…
Artist Lala Crafford‘s work revolves around themes relating to perception and how we experience the everyday through the use of ephemeral mediums such as shadows, light and sound, explored mainly through installation work. How we gain insight through sight has been a running theme for Lala over the past year. Growing up on a game…
Bogosi Sekhukhuni is an artist whose previous work has explored the creeping dominance of the virtual over daily life. Projects such as Consciousness engine 2: absentblackfatherbot, a simulation of a conversation between a father and son, echo classic science fiction themes of artificial intelligence and post-humanism. He is actively conversant with these genre tropes- “I …
The Centre is a space to follow impulses, connections and revelations. It’s a physical space for artists to come together over two seasons every year and for curators to bring together combinations of text, performance, image and dance, because an ensemble sees the world differently to how one individual does. – Bronwyn Lace The pulsing…
Aus’Honey is a badass black girl that does not only live on the internet. Honey is a real girl and she has rolled out the welcome mat into her & her lover’s boujee home, which is decorated with deep red velvet couches that surround her black and white carpet. An inherited antique cabinet which is…
In this week’s episode of Bubblegum Club Stories we feature artist Mbali Dlamini who tells us about screen prints she was invited to create with Artist Proof Studio which will be shown at the Art Africa Fair. We visited Shelflife at Keyes Art Mile for all the sneaker heads, where VEZ fullstop let’s us in…
Visual artist and muralist Lisolomzi Pikoli aka Mr Fuzzy Slippers will be conducting a walkabout on his work titled Man Like Mountain: Of Memory and Scar at Keleketla! Library on Friday the 24th of February. His work generally focuses on the human figure and its relation to line, shape and form. This is coupled with…
Perhaps because of the glamour attached to them, we forget what sterile spaces stages are. The craft of a set designer or performer often involves transporting audiences: away from cavernous auditoriums to other, imagined places. This past weekend I attended an arts festival without stages or tickets or curtains — barely a delineation between audience, public,…
Adam-Jon Williams and Rose Gelderblom Waddilove work together under the collective identity #AJRR, @AJWRGW or AdamJonRoseRoses. As a collective they create open source performance artworks. Adam-Jon and Rose Gelderblom began to work together quite seriously from 2015 after Rose came back from a trip to Palestine. They began to converse about similarities in their work…
In this week’s episode of Bubblegum Club Stories we feature Bogosi Sekhukhuni for his first solo exhibition with Stevenson gallery in Johannesburg, titled Simunye Summit 2010. We chat to founder of the online store RHTC, Mpumelelo Mfula, about their recently opened space in Braam and his vision for local streetwear. We also visit artist Blessing…
Artist Jody Paulsen is currently showing his new solo exhibition Pushing Thirty at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town. Everything from the fuzzy texture of his felt collages, to his floor installations are a point of entry into a mix of bright colours and cheeky slogans; curious eyes are invited to look a little closer. Felt…
