Christa Dee

Christa Dee is a Digital Visual Anthropologist and writer. Her previous Anthropology research has focused on Instagram and its uses for re-thinking Johannesburg imaginaries and mapping practices. Her recent Masters research unpacks the remediation of the African knowledge and technology as form through digital art shared on the Internet.

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Christa Dee / art&culture

Cassi Namoda – visual narrations of everyday life

Thick, confident brush strokes revealing the layers of colours on the canvas. Intense eyes that pull the viewers into each painting — bringi...

Christa Dee / art&culture

Warther Dixon // The Art of Light and Mirror

Wendy Dixon and Caitlin Warther are the founders of art duo, Warther Dixon. Their collective creative journey began by working on commercial...

Christa Dee / art&culture

‘How To Disappear’ // visual contemplations on surveillance, hyper-visibility and resistance

Surveillance modes and technologies inform how we see ourselves, how we behave, and how we see others. Its ubiquity has penetrated the makin...

Christa Dee / art&culture

artkitchenLAB // an introduction to BadEase

Experiential, experimental, and still unfolding… These are the words that come to mind when thinking about BadEase, a multidisciplinary pro...

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Thabiso Sekgala // Bôna – exploring how social borders determine visibility in society

In the entrance of Goodman Gallery Thabiso Sekgala's Tiger, selected from his series Second Transition confronts visitors. The direct,...

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Azibuye – The Occupation // SA’s first VR documentary to show at Sundance Film Festival

Azibuye - The Occupation is the first South African VR documentary to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary tells the inti...

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The Lagos Biennial // Bringing Together Reflections on Contemporary Art and Urbanism

The Biennial is intended to place art in dialogue with the city. The first edition in 2017 took place at a railway compound in Yaba, beginni...

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Steven Cohen’s There’s glitter in my soup! Offers a different perspective on self-portraiture

Steven Cohen's latest exhibition There's glitter in my soup! invites audiences into a behind the scenes, post-performance moment. His series...

Christa Dee / Photography

#BlackDragMagic – a visual offering of reclamation and assertion of validity

#BlackDragMagic is a collaborative project by drag artist and activist Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie and photographer Lee-Ann Olwage. This proj...

Christa Dee / Wokeness

A Female Lens – a podcast series building a community and celebrating women in film

Filmmakers based in LA, Jennifer Zahlit and Larkin Bell are the founders and co-hosts for A Female Lens; a podcast series for filmmakers and...

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Erem Malo // translating and encouraging human connection with photography

Vuyo Tlholoe, aka Erem Malo, stumbled into a connection with art at a relatively young age through befriending someone new at school. She de...

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‘Unearthing’ – a solo by Namibian artist Isabel Tueumuna Katjavivi

Unearthing - a solo exhibition by Namibian artist Isabel Tueumuna Katjavivi. The walls of Goethe-Institut's exhibition space are systematica...