I interviewed illustrator Lungile Mbokane about where his artistic journey began and his experiences at the Design Indaba this year. Tell our readers a bit about you and your journey as an illustrator? My journey as an illustrator began in 2011 when I signed up for graphic design as a career that I wanted to…
As the high priestess of soul, Nina Simone said, “You can’t help it. An artist’s duty as far I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.” This is exactly what artist, Sikelela Damane achieved in his current exhibition titled, State Of the Nation Address (SONA). From the historical removal of the Cecil John Rhodes statute at…
This episode features footage from Geneva. CUSS GROUP were part of an exhibition titled Held Together With Water at Le Commun in Geneva. Curator, writer and publisher Roxane Bovet chatted to us about the exhibition and it’s exploration of Post-digital culture and Post Internet art. We also spoke to South African artist Victoria Wigzell who…
Last week, The Bioscope Theatre, in collaboration with The College of Digital Photography, hosted its second installment of The Camera Club. The talk series aims both to showcase and inspire up-and-coming photographers, through intimate discussions between artists and audiences. In dialogue with a series of images, photographers unmask stories from the other side of the…
Over the past few years artist Simon Gush has been thinking through how ideas about labour are constructed, as well as how labour is a factor which affects how people construct ideas about themselves and society as a whole. I interviewed him about his latest solo exhibition The Island showing at the Stevenson in Johannesburg…
Ellen Edmar and Mona Namér are the dynamic dance duo known as Stampenfield. You have probably seen them whimsically dancing alongside indie electro band, Little Dragon’s lead vocalist, Yukimi Nagano or busting pantsula moves on the streets of Johannesburg. The duo specialised their dancing styles separately abroad and finally joined forces two years ago in…
In a Bangkok gallery filled with sinister wooden carvings of warped body parts, punctuated with black grains of rice, Terhys Persad found out about the struggles the Thai farmers. No guidebook had included this information and even the tour guides did not briefly mention the tragic commercialisation of rice farming. Instead it was in galleries…
Keren Setton and Sitaara Stodel have had a desire to address themes related to self-love, sisterhood, sharing knowledge and playfulness. Having met while studying Fine Art at Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT, their friendship has formed organically. Feeling frustrated with the everyday 9 to 5 life and searching for a creative outlet, they…
In this episode of Bubblegum Club Stories curator of the South African Pavilion Lucy MacGarry chats to us about artists Candice Breitz and Mohau Modisakeng, and their work on identity construction. Tabita Rezaire helps us find the light for our inner fire and gives us a head’s up for next solo show “Exotic Trade”. Director…
I had a conversation with young photographer Danielle O’Neill about her views on the power of the lens and a collaborative project she did titled Las Brujas. “I’m really interested in how photography looks at looking, and looks at the way we preserve our ways of looking,” Danielle explains when discussing her love for the…
Real quick, grab a dictionary or google search the word “muse”. What came up? Something about a woman being the source of creative inspiration? Or maybe something about a he pondering about a she? Well, the word “muse” has been foundational to art and in turn male artists hold females as their source of creative…
Ghanaian-born Kasen Midichi has always found art as the easiest way to express himself. Initially discouraged by understandings of art as work for “lazy people” within his community, he re-discovered his love for creating visual magic when a friend asked him to create a piece for a store. His paintings portray celebrities, public figures and…
