Last year, the SABC released the documentary ‘To Catch A Con Star’ about local scam artist Tracy Morrison. For several decades, Morrison had posed as a wealthy American, even claiming to be Al Pacino’s daughter. She won the trust of people throughout Jo’burg, convincing her duped targets to invest in elaborate business schemes where she…
Within the past four decades, there has been increased visibility of the ‘curator’ figure within the arts. The appointment of Swiss art historian Harald Szeemann as sole curator and director of the famous Documenta 5 exhibition caused a shift in how curators were perceived. The global art landscape as a whole was being shaken up…
Vivian Chou starts her essay on the race debate by bringing in Donald Trump, a universal symbol of white extremism. She discusses how his election as the 45th president of the United States was patented with racial conflicts. Stating that there was a rise in racial incidents in the aftermath of his victory in November…
The enduring popularity of horror fiction is because the world is an utterly terrifying place. We live on a planet rushing towards an apocalyptic environmental collapse, spending our life working to feed the voracious greed of rich vampires, lurching around in a cycle of work and anxiety like hordes of zombies. Politics aside, we all…
My queer African body is not an apology! – Kieron Jina Internationally renowned South African Performance Artist, Activist and Academic Kieron Jina collaborated with a number of artists from both Germany and South Africa to create the theatre performance piece ‘The Rise of the African Queer’. A creative force consisting of performance artists, sound…
A Black Aesthetic: A view of South African Artists (1970 -1990) presented by Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg revisits the art collection of the University of Fort Hare. Exhibited for the first time since 1992 outside of the Eastern Cape, the collection holds one of the country’s most expansive assemblages of Black South African artists working…
Man, every year, everybody’s like: “Yeah, these kids out here, they’re a new breed. I ain’t never seen nothing like this before. This the end of the world now.” Look around, fuckhead; this seem like the dawn of a new day to you?- Poot in The Wire SoundCloud rap is an exemplary micro genre for…
Thabiso, a lean figure that would rouse rampant suspicion in the skinny-shaming society that lurked outside the shut door, carried a strong face with eyes that danced with miscalculated intensity. My gaze journeyed lazily along the smooth silver landscape where the moonlight licked his skin; his body paralysed by the emasculating failure that lingered like…
