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SECTOR – Uncharted Territory

The South African comic book industry is growing at a fast rate.  Local writers and artists like Lauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen and Jason Masters have all had their talent headhunted by major American publishers. These creators all appeared at the recent FanCon event in Cape Town, alongside international stars like the US writer Jason Aaron…

USB SOUNDSYSTEM – Journeys in Three Songs

Last October, BubblegumClub (in collaboration with WeHeartBeat) hosted the first in an ongoing series of cultural experiments. For the USB Soundsystem event, held in Melville, a cast of local tastemakers were invited to an open DJ booth.  Guests were asked to each play three songs. Rather than mixing skills, the criteria was simply to bring…

Watch: Fear of The Youth Episode 2 – Didi Monsta

Fear of The Youth is a new web series about the interests and concerns of Johannesburg youth. The series is produced by Germ Heals a collective of filmmakers, fashion designers and photographers. In episode 2 Germ Heals catch up with the young fashion designer Didi Monsta to discuss his personal style as well as the release…

The subversive love of Nolan Oswald Dennis’ Furthermore

Nolan Oswald Dennis’ current exhibition, titled Furthermore, at the Goodman Gallery in Cape Town resists (neo)colonial logics of closure and destabilises the necrological dimensions of neo-imperial violence that continue to suffocate the vitality of life within the “always collapsing social fiction” of a ‘new’ South Africa.  Instead of circumscribing what constitutes ‘reality’ through the exclusions…

Post Print Zine – Hidden Structures

Mathema is a new limited edition zine, produced by Vatic Studio in collaboration with artist Jake Michael Singer. The lush publication is a work of art in its own right, focusing on grid structures in Johannesburg. As Vatic Studios Nicole Van Heerden describes it, the project was inspired by ideas from Classical  Philosophy-   ‘Mathema…

Alma Martha, she’s not your mother; the unibrow to highbrow art practice

Alma Mater Martha is the unibrow to highbrow art practice, rebelling against predefined forms of practice and codified systems of meaning-making through an often playfully provocative approach to moving alongside established institutions. Born towards the end of 2014 and sustained through the collaboration of artists Juliana Irene Smith and Molly Steven, Alma Mater Martha seems…

Joshua Williams – Space, Movement, Memory

Joshua Williams is a young Cape Town artist who works in painting, photography and sculpture. His focus on space and walls has a subtle, but potent, political relevance to contemporary South Africa. The following conversation with Bubblegum Club is accompanied with an exclusive photo-essay provided by Williams. Can you tell us a bit about yourself-…