The term ‘savage’ has a dark and loaded past in the context of art history, but through contemporary culture, brands like Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty have hijacked it from its historical captors. As new life is breathed into the post-pandemic South African art scene, Bubblegum Club sits down with Lwando Dlamini to discuss his career,…
Neoliberalism and all his children, such as The American Dream and all its variations, would have many Black African artists spending their nights conjuring up dreams of achieving excellence via Western standards. In line with a culture of celebrating and uplifting our people, we would cheer on when one of our own local artists is…
A conceptual EP, Muzi’s ‘Stimela SeGolide’, train of gold in Zulu, chronicles the disruption to black families that migration in search of work causes. “It’s a play of people having to take the train to go and make money. It’s paying homage to Hugh Masekela and the song Stimela that he made ‘cause it was…
The forward-tilting trio of sleek bands, arch and encompass the iconic sneaker. A subtle zig-zag of a perforated edge is punctuated by straight stitching. Its rounded tongue, branded with the trefoil logo, peers out from a series of crisscrossing laces. Parallel to the classic three stripes, an uppercase text articulates this particular form of the…
Having found myself stumbling upon more amazing blogs from local and African curators I decided to do another chapter in Tumblr blogs to follow piece. There is so much content being made online so it’s understandable that one may feel overwhelmed by internationally made and curated content. Yet, online readers are now no longer just…
