Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

‘The Wretched of the Screen’ – Questioning mainstream media

We miscalculate the effect of the mass media. Television – IT can act as a medium to explore, create, educate as well as nullify our observa...

Nkgopoleng Moloi / art&culture

RMB Turbine Art Fair’s potential to challenge traditional arbiters of taste

Much has been debated about the role of art fairs in the art ecology - are they spaces of critical discourse and education or do they simply...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

Wezile Mgibe – Healing with the art of dance

Movement in Africa has always had a deep meaning, and this has influenced me to study the art of movement. Movement artist Wezile Mgibe emp...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

‘Life in the Entropics’ by Io Makandal – embracing the Third Landscape

A quick search on the internet will reveal that: entropic is having a tendency to change from a state of order to a state of disorder. What...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

‘Emphatic Whispers’ – encouraging empathy through art

The group exhibition Emphatic Whispers has an interest in the possibility that art has to make people more empathetic and to change the way ...

Christa Dee / art&culture

‘Unearthing’ – a solo by Namibian artist Isabel Tueumuna Katjavivi

Unearthing - a solo exhibition by Namibian artist Isabel Tueumuna Katjavivi. The walls of Goethe-Institut's exhibition space are systematica...

hFACTOR / art&culture

Alternative art spaces in Lagos

And at one point she is sitting on the floor, Legs crossed over each other on the side as she spreads glitter across her open chest Wound ...

Nkgopoleng Moloi / art&culture

Zines and zine culture as a mode of organising

Despite the many lamentations about the youth being lazy, narcissistic and only interested in selfie culture, today’s youth is in many ways ...

Gemma Hart / art&culture

Bridging the Gap with KOP Collective

In the sun-kissed space on a lazy Saturday afternoon, ambient music and clinking wine glasses trailed around Gallery MOMO. Bridging the Gap ...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

aspect : ratio – a question to the art of video

Aspect ratio; understood as the fine balance between an image and a two-dimensional plane becomes a question of ontology. Televisions are re...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

Ketu Malesa repurposes materials to create an otherworldly yet familiar experience

Ketu Malesa describes himself as a “fine artist interested in the intersection of performance, sculpture, collage and costume design.” Origi...

Marcia Elizabeth / art&culture

Kutti Collective – flipping the representational scale

Sparked from a conversation about feelings of displacement within the South African art landscape, Kutti Collective was solidified. Built fr...