“One day I hope we won’t need the term “intersectional” to preface environmentalism. One day I hope that when people think of an environmentalist, they’ll automatically envision an activist that cares about both people and the planet. I truly believe that day will come soon if environmentalists wake up and begin advocating for those whose…
take me to the place where judas kissed jesus i want to remember what he tasted like holy turn my water into wine holy paint my face with your holy seed holy keep me on my knees holy fuck me sanctified holy fuck me happy holy fuck me normal holy help me make it through…
If you have ever thrashed around in a mosh pit while channeling pure reactivity and fierce expression of ones internalised rage rallied around anti-authoritarianism and disenfranchised futures – then you know that punk has never simply been about the music, but rather, the music is the antidote and nexus upon which intersecting layers of ideals…
Abstract The piece that is to follow forms part of the work produced for our distributed residency with A4 Arts Foundation, an unfolding conversation with the assemblages of Johannesburg’s city space. A first for both entities; working together from a place of distance. City Deep A Virtual Affect Practice, is the working title for the…
American singer Mark Lanegan’s haunted baritone is a force of nature. His deep, gloomy voice sings of the darkest nights of the soul, the deepest heart-breaks and emotional bruises, broken dreams, desperate addiction and longing, failure, desolation and death. From his work with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, right through to his…
My interest in art began with a crayon and as I grew older my innate performative self, began asserting space. Though never a student of drama, it is this sense of performativity that lingers in all my creative tasks. I drew, and I painted, and I sculpted and I sang — long before I ever…
A culture that is rich and vibrant but one also drenched in humility. All our intricacies — everything we have endured and are still are enduring — without even knowing it, has formed the foundation of what we are becoming. Our history has manifested our art, music, food and even – some would argue –…
It is day 49 of lockdown and uncertainty has become our daily bread. Each day we wake up to try again in this new normal. What is certain though, is that there has been increased usage of social media platforms and apps by the South African online community and even more certain than this is…
Moffie, the fourth feature of South African director Oliver Hermanus, is a coruscating look into the violent pathology and poisonous toxic masculinity of white South African society during apartheid. The film, whose stark and shocking title comes from a derogatory homophobic slur, is set in the early 1980s and follows the life of military conscript…
Our popular culture imagines the end of times as an external affair; a comet crashing into the earth, cities decimated by nuclear explosions or falling beneath torrential waves, zombie hordes ravaging through the streets. But what happens when the disaster is playing out in a landscape of interiority. In the surrealist dream now, that would…
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 places of familiar difference, of Vinolia Mashego, who was affectionally known as V Mash to us and the rest of the nation. To write of her in remembrance and…
Social media has scarred the reputations of many prominent people. Offensive tweets, reprehensible opinions or sometimes, just poorly timed efforts at edgy humour, have even ended the careers of a couple of notable celebrities. Politicians – in contrast – appear to enjoy more leeway. Donald Trump is by the far the most infamous example. His…
