Known for their prolific and expansive career as an editor, creative director, stylist & fashion editor, wordsmith & copywriter, and now filmmaker – Ky Bxshxff offers us a rare and precious moment of vulnerability within the fashion / creative industry through their directorial debut CABIN FEVER. The film depicts interchanging actors characterising “The Boy”. A…
Jozi Days is described as a short music documentary by its director London based Tom Ringsby, shot in January of 2019 and documenting a week-long recording session of collaborations between various Johannesburg based artists in a temporary studio space. I find it difficult to locate a single word that succinctly describes what is encapsulated in…
I was thirty years old when I became a mother. This made me think about how in the USSR I would have been referred to as an “Old Mother” on my medical card. Which is crazy when you think about it. Childless women over the age of forty or fifty are often seen as purposeless…
Humanity’s habit is to think about time in a linear way— to put things in order, in a line — so that we have a series of independent facts. Actions change the course of history. I am only like this today because my parents did things in one way. Other things happened with my grandparents,…
It was through a Missy Elliot music video where Courtnaé Paul first saw the art of breakdancing —and it was love at first sight. However, growing up in a small community in Durban and only seeing men perform the art, the dance felt so far away from her experience. It was not until she was…
This past weekend I attended a walk-about at The Mixed Reality Workshop (TMRW) Gallery, for Fred Clarke’s solo exhibition titled Cognoscenti — and while I’ve engaged with the sonic fabulations Clarke magics into being with the music he produces under the moniker Mathroom, it was quite something else to experience his visual creations materialised through…
Lerato Motaung is an artist whose work is created in his processes of evolution and experimentation. His desire to form intimate understandings of materials and methods of practice have led him to frame himself within the porous sphere of mixed media. While studying for his National Diploma in Fine Art from Tshwane University of Technology…
Living environments remain crucial sites of interrogation of our collective and individual cultural relationships to the daily realities of gender, race, privilege and propriety. The idea of house/home/shelter as both a right and a luxury collide as ambiguous entities grafted to the constant morph of capitalism and technology, commerce and spectacle. Even within the established…
‘Kernel’ is an expansion of the private studio into the gallery space, from small to big, kernel to whole, seed to plant. This is the place from which artist’s make; sketching the thing that is almost, until it is. Where they prepare the terrain and water the seeds for fertile ideas to grow. Sometimes the…
Meghan Judge is a Johannesburg-based artist who has curiosity for people, places and narratives from around the world— as well as her own. “Power is an important focus in my work”, and she is always trying to see how it works, to learn, expose and play with it. She recently joined the Oceanic Humanities for…
Tapestry artist and Kutti Collective member Talia Ramkilawan‘s recent artwork captures seemingly ordinary everyday moments—creating a textured archive. At first the images of womxn depicted in her work were sourced from her imagination, but as her practice developed she found inspiration in photographs from her childhood or her friends. Contemporary scenes demonstrate her desire to…
Man cut the track, why bring it back? Cause in the midst of injustice all stars turn the world into their canvas, paint the wind just for practice and give colour to madness. With ambitions loud and dreams in the clouds they jump out of your screen and into every scene. This is our team,…
