In this episode we chat to Norwegian womenswear designer Edda Gimnes about the collection that she showed at SA Fashion Week. DJ Okapi shows us the right way to end off the week with old-school SA music on vinyl at The Q-Club in Maboneng. We speak to Young and Lazy designer Anees Petersen about the…
Disillusioned by the idea that the Internet is a democratic space, digital artist Isaac Kariuki centres his work around internet culture, the body, autonomy and identity. I had a conversation with him about these themes, as well as his zine, Diaspora Drama. Having studied a BA in Digital Art, Isaac confesses that playing around with…
You meet interesting people everywhere. Some of the most intriguing womxn I have come across come from Johannesburg. It is with them, through taking their images, that I found raw beauty and authenticity. Here is a look at three lesser-known females. Tash Brown My first interactions with Tash were over social media after she had…
I interviewed twin sisters Abigail and Claire Meekel about the playful and mischievous illustrations they create under the name Meëk. Tell our readers about you and your creative practice? Claire Meekel: I work with my twin sister Abigail Meekel to create ‘Meëk’. The way we come up with ideas is always spontaneous and comes out…
Cydney Eva is the founder of PatternNation, the umbrella under which all of her creative practices find a home. This includes mural paintings, installations, clothing and jewellery. Cydney, born and raised in East Vancouver on Unceded Coast Salish territory, is in Johannesburg on a two-month residency with Assemblage. I had a conversation with her about…
In this episode you see footage from our visit to the August House Open Studio Exhibition where we spoke to artists Neo Mahlangu and Themba Khumalo about the exhibition and their work. Phiko Mditshwa gives a taste of a “cultured look” in our street fashion feature. Okmalumkoolkat chats to us about his party, Partytime Shandees,…
I interviewed Silondile Jali aka Slomokazi about her project #Nonke, which she describes as art fashion. Collaborating with photographer Paul Shiakallis, as well as her brother Siviwe Jali, Desire Marea, Fela Gucci, Mantis Shabane, Mamauba Mobi Malahlela and Assent Lesego Mnewe as models, this work is a celebration of self. Tell our readers about the…
Soil of the land pours fourth from a concrete fissure. Protea graves lie on an earthy deathbed. The indigenous plants strewn across the floor. Blood-red seeps from a glinting gold surface. A legacy of Eurocentricity. Wilting in the sun. “The garden itself as a place of symbolic and material production, where sublime beauty still emerges…
I had a conversation with writer/performer Sophie Woolley, dancer/choreographer Andile Vellem and director Gemma Fairlie on their collaborative mixed discipline show The Fake Interpreter. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson…
Young artist Callan Grecia, having recently graduated with his Masters in Painting at UCKAR, is exploring the relationship network conditions in a Post-Internet society have on the medium of oil paint. I interviewed him about his show titled These Aesthetics Are Not New (2017). Tell our readers about the title you chose for your exhibition,…
This episode of Bubblegum Club Stories features footage from Stockholm. We speak to musician and model Michael Dangerous who moved to Stockholm from Johannesburg. He lets us in on his modeling adventures and new music he is working on with some big Swedish producers. We also meet Swedish rapper Lilla Namo who chats to us…
A parallel dimension, encased in conical form. Visually descending into perfect symmetry. Eruption. Entropy. Intersecting lines define shape. Extending into movement. A disturbed moment. Clothed in geometry. An ephemeral construction. Projected lights radiate across the surface, permeating the performance. An infused collaboration. A Weird Dream. Drawing on the latest Kassena Collection, The Horseman stands upright….
