The inaugural Africa Games Week takes place between the 28th of November and the 2nd of December 2018 at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. The brainchild of Interactive Entertainment South Africa’s managing director, Nicholas Hall, the week is comprised of a number of events aimed at shining light at game development on…
Memorials aren’t memories. They have motives. They are historical. They are not history itself – Nate Dimeo Cities evolve and grow over time. More buildings are added while others are torn down and/or structurally and drastically altered. In the same light, cities act as time capsules that hold on to histories and memories. Buildings and…
History has most widely been told by cis, het white men. The spoils go to the victor, and when we think about the history of colonization – we understand that those spoils were not only wealth, labour, and land – but also power over how the history of that colonization was diminished or erased entirely…
An archive collected and carefully preserved for 10 years. Scope magazine. The tropes of the glamour model. Boobs, it’s all about the boobs. The pose drives it. Objectifying ‘her’ makes you a “man”. Printed in high gloss and colour coordinated- red, yellow and shiny. As you enter the first room and take a spatial inventory…
Boda Boda Lounge project is a cross-continental video art festival that will take place at over 15 spaces across the African continent from 16 – 18 November 2018. Started by two arts organisations, VANSA in Johannesburg and Centre d’art Waza in Lubumbashi, the festival has collaboration and exchange across space and context as its foundation….
The Flying Fish Flavour Odyssey pops off on the 25th November with much anticipated tropical elementation and Afro-chic. The event will comprise of a flavoursome outdoor affair of music, food, art and fashion. Unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, each carefully curated aspect will be a new eye and bodily trip. The heart of the…
Mark Fisher, the British writer and theorist who tragically passed away last year, was probably our greatest diagnostician of this boring dystopia of unbound capitalism and its smartphone addiction, rampant mental illness and inane celebrity culture. In the 2000’s, his K-Punk blog offered some of the finest cultural writing on the internet, offering acidly poetic…
‘’As Africans embrace the discomfort of a re-emerging self-esteem, new generations of Africans are taking back the ability to name, prioritise and create African spaces beyond developmental lack and industrial aspirations. These generations must assume the power to describe and analyse their own worlds relative to their diverse points of view.’’ – Nairobi based stylist,…
Throughout history, black women’s hair has been (and continues to be) theorised, politicised, mystified and exoticised… but rarely is it celebrated. Hair is rich with history and symbolism; for better or worse, it is tied to ideas of self-expression and an encasement of one’s identity. We are drawn to attaching meaning and asking attention for…
Multi-disciplinarian Evar Hussayni is based and works from London. She works as a curator and in addition to this she is completing her MA studies in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy. Pivoting her craft towards the position of women in society with a narrowing in on the position of Middle Eastern women – specifically Evar…
Copper and conductivity. A different reality. A portal. The key. A spiritual awakening. The medium as key. Copper laden pathways to another realm of existence. An entanglement of pipe. Flat portrayals of sculpture. Sewing and soldering meet under a single domain. A colour palette that screeches cleanness, crispness. Pastels, whites, raw shades. Religious paraphernalia. Nicholas…
Through its project space; The Point of Order, the Wits School of Art is set to present a show; Anciens Dieux, Nouvel Énigmes – Old Gods, New Enigmas. The show consults history to illuminate new aspects of tranquillity and tension around the politics of display, particularly in reference to African Art. Congolese visual artist Hilaire…
