The decolonisation of art is a topic that needs to be paid more attention to with varying opinions on how to achieve it. From including African art in teaching syllabuses to holding exhibitions honouring African art and artefacts, decolonisation makes for a lengthy process. However, one of the first things we can aim to achieve…
It becomes a shame when life’s most profound truths are so widely shared, and in so many various forms that they almost become reduced to background noise. For instance: there are a million quotes and feel-good coming of age movies to drive across the point that life is about “the journey and not the destination”….
[in review] is an initiative taking place over 30 days in which 30 writers working in and around South Africa each wrote a piece reflecting on an artwork they felt resonated with them. The project, supported by Pro-Helvetia Johannesburg, is aimed at allowing art writers to have much needed breathing space and asked each writer…
Stellar winds from giant stars caused dust to form ripples — a whole lot of dust; oxygen, carbon, iron, nickel and other elements — and eventually some of it found its way into our bodies.[1] That which is above is like that which is below and that which is below is like that which is…
The Fourth edition of the Kampala Biennale titled Get Up Stand Up, is unlike others we have experienced before. Taking from the Bob Marley song, it encouraged artists to create work that is inspired by standing up to the challenges they face. The exhibition takes on a virtual form due to the covid-19 pandemic and…
“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (the British version) Scum Boy, is the award-winning short documentary film directed by Allison Swank and “made possible through the extraordinary…
I consider myself as a feminist, a Black feminist. A feminist that works within the South African context—a feminist that works also works within the continent because I am African before I become South African it’s something that I knowledge everyday, that my story is not completely different umm to the rest of the women…
welcome to casualsex.store – south africa’s first online artist-market. and as a non-warehousing, multi-disciplinary platform, it seems it’s the first of its kind – worldwide. yes, there are platforms similar to ours – in the U.S – and they’re used by hundreds of south african artists. but, thing is, they’re not built to actively grow artists in…
Rituals are the bedrock of our sense-making in this world….they help us regulate emotions, our goal/performance states, and our connection to other people. Kursat Ozenc It is with this sentiment on rituals that I approached five creative practitioners; Byron Fredericks, Refilwe Nkomo, Helena Uambembe, Simnikiwe Buhlungu and Tazmé Pillay. I wanted to get a sense of…
Fiction and art go side by side. One doesn’t depend on the other, however, I do think they become more beautiful the closer they exist to one another. In their junctions, the imagination is provoked and the ability to invent and create becomes clear. All this leads us to great capacities of significance and meaning…
It’s a long way to Gwadana; a place where tongues are long, clouds are neon, bellies are round, hills are pink and tails are chariots. As you travel along the edge, a tender song of melodies is set free. Mystery engulfs and fantasy captivates. Behind every hill lies an absurd universe. The mythology of witchcraft…
Everything that has happened in the world is a part of history, however, it is not necessarily in History. What we are taught and told is filtered through the perspective of those who are doing the teaching and telling — and these are often individuals in privileged positions. This, ultimately reflects how and what we…
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