CUSS Group, formed in 2011 by Ravi Govender, Jamal Nxedlana and Zamani Xolo, have been tsatsatsa since the get-go and need little introduction; they were South Africa’s first arts collective to focus on digital technologies and have, since then, gone viral, infiltrating a diversity of spaces; from car boots in Zimbabwe to MoMA in Poland,…
The British Council’s Connect ZA Arts Programme supports, highlights, and extends collaborative cultural exchanges between South Africa and the UK. They work across a wide variety of art forms in order to discover and nurture new and existing talent and connections between young people aged 18 to 35. They’ve been pioneering innovative ways to understand…
This photo-story captures the blissfully imperfect moments of experimentation. The unedited images by Durban-based photo-journalist, writer and artist, Robyn Perros, documents some grit and much grain of one of South Africa’s newest and most diverse ‘afro-futuristic’ music festivals on colour film. The 2016 Zakifo Muzik Festival took place in Durban from 27-29 May 2016 and…
In the last decade superheroes have towered over the popular culture landscape. Although the market is dominated by the US, it’s clear that these characters have a global popularity. Marvel movies regularly clear up at the box office, while figures like Batman and Superman are universally recognised archetypes. South Africa has gotten in on the…
List the components of a flawless party night and it will probably read something like this: floor-shaking sound, a stellar line-up on the decks, the perfect venue, big sponsors. On to aesthetics and atmospherics and we might add: the crowd; the colours; the threads; the kicks; the lexicon of intoxications we inhale, imbibe and ingest;…
Elsa Bleda was born into movement, crossing continents in the turning tides of her mother, the artist. What does it mean to form connections through the heightened beauty of transience? To be half-way down the mercurial street before the light can gather to hold you? Some things may get left behind, remain as spectral after-effects…
Nyctaphobia: a fear of the night or darkness. Night fright permeates many conventional imaginings of the city, as the dark plays host to a web of seedy associations: violence, criminality, backwardness. Illumination, on the other hand, connotes a glistening cityscape. We envision a technologically-enhanced wonderland that is safe, accessible, and bustling with consumer activity. The…
Having read somewhere that local is the new global or was it that global was the new local, I soon found my confusion summed up in the catch phrase “glocal”. The internet can be a confusing space for those looking to inject specifically local creativity onto their glistening screens. In order to help Bubblegum Club…
A pool of blue light, ebb-flow bodies and scented smoke: It’s difficult not to close my eyes as I sink in. Little specks of orange rise to form shining patterns above our heads as we respond to the call ‘lighters up!’ Throats lifted to the stage lights, the crowd echoes Lucky Dube then plunges their…
Puppetry is one of the oldest art forms. Although it is now often viewed as exclusively a medium for children, puppets have historically been used in everything from religious rituals to subversive political theatre. The art of puppetry is deceptively simple as it involves creating the illusion of life in inanimate objects. The Cape Town…
Sosesame is the new kid on the gallery block, having opened in Melville in April of this year. The fact that this buzzing cultural precinct has, until now, sorely lacked such a space for showcasing South Africa’s artistic talent, speaks to the fact that a wider variety of platforms desperately need to be encouraged in…
The Ninevites was a resistance movement who scoured the South African frontier during the late 1900s. Having started the collective under The Ninevites name in 2012, Nkuli Mlangeni would do so because of how fascinated she was in its story, which was shrouded in so much myth. What the Kagiso native found crazy was that…
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