Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Residency // A Conversation with the Artists

/ art&culture / 7 years ago

The annual month-long Fak’ugesi residency which continues into the festival aims to support young, African digital makers. This year Dananayi Muwanigwa and Kombo Chapfika from Zimbabwe team up with Julia Hango from Namibia. We had a conversation with the artists to find out about their individual practices and their initial ideas for the Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Exhibition.

More art&culture

COVER FEATURES

SA POP ARCHIVE

Thembeka Sincuba / Pop Archive

Feel Good SA Pop Culture Moments That Live In My Mind Rent-Free

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t give a damn about sports. I didn’t watch the match this past weekend and in fact, I did my utmost to avoid it, even going as far as skipping the Vogue Nights event I had been so looking forward to once I heard they’d be...

Casey Delport / Pop Archive

iJusi // ‘rainbow nation’ media cultures

A glance at the contemporary media landscape in South Africa conjures up images of newsstands littered with political scandal, criminally bad tabloid journalism and bland design after bland design. It’s no wonder that mainstream media can often leave a sour taste in consumers’ mouths as it’s all too apparent that these publications, both online and...

Lindiwe Mngxitama / Pop Archive

Bubblegum disco era icon Condry Ziqubu’s ‘Gorilla Man’ | an Afrosynth release

While Condry Ziqubu’s rise as a star of South Africa’s ‘bubblegum’ disco era may have appeared rapid, before his big break as a solo artist in 1983, Ziqubu had already been working professionally in the music industry for 15 years. A regular on the local soul scene since the late 1960s in groups such as...

Lindiwe Mngxitama and Kneo Mokgopa / Pop Archive

Middle Centre: on V Mash, radical Black aesthetic production and those honoured only in death

The text that is to follow is an exercise of sorts between writer Kneo Mokgopa and myself. An attempt at writing together from afar and from places of familiar difference, of Vinolia Mashego, who was affectionally known as V Mash to us and the rest of the nation. To write of her in remembrance and...

Latest Post

by Thembeka Sincuba

/ music / 23 hours ago

Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Residency // A Conversation with the Artists

Suggested Posts

Faku’gesi digital arts festival returns to Jozi for its 8th edition

The female form used as a weapon against the patriarchy

Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Residency // Meet the artists

COVER FEATURES

SA POP ARCHIVE

Feel Good SA Pop Culture Moments That Live In My Mind Rent-Free

iJusi // ‘rainbow nation’ media cultures

Bubblegum disco era icon Condry Ziqubu’s ‘Gorilla Man’ | an Afrosynth release

Middle Centre: on V Mash, radical Black aesthetic production and those honoured only in death

Popular Posts

Latest Post

Th&o. Releases “Lonely? (Come Along)” Single and Teases “Emlotheni”

Katush Nairobi SS25’s Obsidian Dawn // The Black Bird A Kanga Collection

Jozi Kings and Things Presents the Most Unserious Drag Kings on Earth

Comfort in the Darkness with Petite Noir

Mandisi Dyantyis Places His Voice at the Nexus of Lived Experience & Jazz

“We, The Purple” at The Javett Art Centre // An Ambiguous Anthem

Inside Gadat House // In Dialogue with its Founder Nompumelelo Nhlapo

A Dialogue Between Ashraf Jamal and Zanele Muholi at Mamakashaka

International Federation of Noise // Moonshine’s Diasporic Capsule

Dimpho Mashile on the Business of African Beauty and Building Kgopelo

BUBBLEGUM CLUB TV

Magazine

Gallery