Marcia Elizabeth / 2 weeks ago

The figure of the witch in today’s world

It has been argued in recent times that there is a resurgence of interest and identification with the figure of the witch. Questioning the b...

Nkgopoleng Moloi / 4 weeks ago

Unpacking the relationship between mental wellbeing and creativity

The idea of the tortured artist who is unpredictable, troubled, deranged, mentally unbalanced and not well adjusted proliferates media and n...

Nkgopoleng Moloi / 3 months ago

The gender-sex bell curve and the myth of progress

When a beautiful, innocent baby is born we hail; ‘it’s a boy’ or ‘it’s a girl’. The performance begins —You will wear pink and not blue, ...

Christopher McMichael / 3 months ago

“Die Lit” – SoundCloud Rap and Boring Nihilism

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 en...

Darnelle Thompson / 3 months ago

The Gripe // Exploring an Alternative World in Digital Photographic Publishing

Instagram has become one of the most powerful tools for today’s photographer. The platform empowers photographers across the world to have t...

Marcia Elizabeth / 5 months ago

How to make life less frustrating for those suffering from mental illness – A simple guide

As has always been the case, people find it hard to speak about mental illness, people find it uncomfortable. Because as much as people fear...

Nkgopoleng Moloi / 5 months ago

Discussions on survival as an independent artist in South Africa

According to the World Economic Forum 15-20 million young Africans are expected to join the workforce every year for the next three decades ...

Rosa Elk / 11 months ago

Who is the hero? // A reflection on African Sci-Fi Films

In a post-apocalyptic Ethiopian landscape, where Michael Jordan is enshrined, masked Nazi-clad bandits steal Ninja-turtle amulets, and witch...

Marcia Elizabeth / 11 months ago

The White Gaze and its Presence in a “post” apartheid culture

"I want my voice to be harsh, I don't want it to be beautiful, I don't want it to be pure." – Frantz Fanon *  The foundation for this wri...

Rosa Elk / 11 months ago

Is Algorithm the new Abstract?

Watching the contemporary art scene evolve is a little bit like watching a sports game as a complete philistine with no knowledge of the rul...

Marcia Elizabeth / 1 year ago

The replacement of human artists by machine generated algorithms

In a rapidly changing digitized world many careers have already seen a death in human occupation, such as quality control checkers in factor...

Marcia Elizabeth / 1 year ago

The affordability of plant-based diets – We speak to three veggie lovers on the topic

In 2015 two studies were published in the Science and Anthropocene Review that came to the conclusion that human beings are "eating away at ...