Lindiwe Mngxitama / Pop Archive

Middle Centre: on V Mash, radical Black aesthetic production and those honoured only in death

The text that is to follow is an exercise of sorts between writer Kneo Mokgopa and myself. An attempt at writing together from afar and from...

Christa Dee / art&culture

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,...

Gemma Hart / art&culture

Santu Mofokeng // Moments of Resistance and Resisting the Spectacle

"The camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses".  Susan Sontag Long shadows cast along an urban landscape,...

Lindiwe Mngxitama / art&culture

Dada Khanyisa’s Good Feelings: Sentiment, Figurations of Black Joy and Mappings of Collective Affect

Intervals of dreaming help us to stand up under days of work… What the memoir writer remembers is not the same thing the poet remembers. He ...

Marcia Elizabeth / Pop Archive

‘Epitaphs and Dreams’, Poems by a Revolutionary in Exile

Which stories would I highlight -  the underground anecdotes and thrillers; the days and nights of love and war; the weapons I car...

Marcia Elizabeth / Pop Archive

Kewpie – A South African Trans Icon before Trans Icons

Kewpie was a hairdresser and celebrated queer figure from District Six. She was born in 1941 and identified as gender fluid according to ava...

Bob Perfect / Pop Archive

How to Blog Dirty and Influence People – Notes on Durban is Yours

You never know where the decisions you make will take you. Back in 2011, I got a few friends together to start a blog that would focus on th...

Marcia Elizabeth / Pop Archive

Billy Monk and the Catacombs – Underground Dockside Culture in the Late 1960s

As your body descends into the underground the darkness slowly caresses your cheek. You are met by a crude yet unflinching interior as you t...

Motlatsi / Pop Archive

Mike Leather’s vintage biker’s boutique: A homage to Joburg’s vibrant 80s punk past

One of my favorite hidden gems in Joburg just so happens to also be a “tribute to South Africa’s punk and alternative scene” past!  On Jan s...

Beth Vale / Pop Archive

If Kitchener’s (KCB) is like a home

“There are venues and there are institutions”, I was once told: a friend attempting to draw categories in Johannesburg’s night-time cartogra...

Beth Vale / Pop Archive

Techno in the City: the story of TOYTOY

Run your finger through the history of techno and you will eventually come to the source: Belleville, Detroit in the mid-1980s. It was here ...

Beth Vale / Pop Archive

Of Parties Past: the Cellardoor Archive 2005–2007

‘In two more years, my sweetheart, we will see another view’. Bloc Party lyrics that once punctuated the playlist of a monthly Newtown party...