Fear of The Youth is a new web series about the interests and concerns of Johannesburg youth. The series is produced by filmmaking crew, Germ Heals. In episode 4 Germ Heals speak to high school students about the Fees Must Fall movement, their concerns regarding tertiary education and their thoughts on governments interventions in the space.
A multiplicity of pixels emerges in waves radiating through the digital screen. Virtual information trickles onto foreign shores, extending telegenic space. The wondering travelers congregate together, bound beyond borders to construct reciprocal relationships in an increasingly globalized world. In 2013, VIDEONOMAD was born. The project stemmed from a desire to create a visible platform for…
‘And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom’ – Anaïs Nin The above quote was the very first post by BLOOM when they launched their Instagram account, on the 1st of September this year; the first month of spring. It…
Can we think through the senses? Recognise how systems of control distribute what is sensible, what is knowable, along predetermined trajectories, patterns of thought, or experiences of encounter? It’s in the concrete and the corridors; the ways our bodies are made to move; the doors that open and shut; the dull buzz of boundaries; the…
“Make it look like a Spaza”, these were the words overheard as we waited to enter the gallery. The Goodman gallery on upper Jan Smuts drive would be the esteemed venue for the evenings show. The Brother Moves On (TBMO) made up by the members Siyabonga Mthembu, Zelizwe Mthembu, Ayanda Zalekile, Simphiwe Tshabalala and Mbalikayise…
‘We’re not all mystics who can extract beauty from our pain.’ – K Sello Duiker The French-born Johannesburg-based artist and mother of SENEB House, Tabita Rezaire, locates her decolonial practice in healing and artmaking. In her work, the digital screen is engaged as a politicised site. Articulated as an intersectional preacher in digitised activism, donning…
The ‘Turn-up Talk Series’ is a collection of discussions in which young Jo’burgers share their nocturnal lives: stories and reflections from the city’s dancefloors. The candid conversations explore nightclubs as stages for young people’s negotiations of identity, belonging and power.
By far one my favourite thing to have learned is the concept of an African Epistemology. Where Epistemology seeks to understand how it is that we know, an African suggests that our understandings occur from a contextual basis. For me an African epistemology is about realising the very limits of our understanding as opposed to…
The exploitation of the black body, and the counter efforts to resist, are the centre of gravity for South African history. Everything else- colonialism, Apartheid, violence, war, brutal labour and toil, paranoia and fear revolve around this to various degrees. Such a trouble reality of embodiment is central to the work of Mohau Modisakeng, the…
South Africa is currently in a critical place of rising consciousness, with far-reaching and irrevocable implications for the dismantling of ongoing oppressions, systemically enforced, both subtly and overtly, in our so-called ‘post-apartheid’ state. Through the explosion of movements such as #FeesMustFall, we have been able to bear witness to the beginning of a new, self-determined…
Conceptual threads perforate the surface of fabric, textured by intimate histories negotiating a post-colonial experience. The Cape Town based artist, Simphiwe Ndzube, engages with a spectrum of mediums. These materials often include the appropriation of found objects – through which he stitches together a visual narrative, located in the experience of blackness in post-apartheid South…
“Sometimes it’s difficult to pin a financial value to an artwork. I don’t even try. So here’s a chance to get your hands on an original painting FOR FREE!” The above is the kind of caption that can be seen attached to paintings produced by Warren Lewis aka CHCKN LEWIS aka @likelewis on social media….
