Remembering is never a quiet act of introspection or retrospection. It is a … [Read more...] about Spectres of Memory: The Work of Thina Dube
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To cast anew: ‘Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt’ at Open City
In a moment of uncertain reconnection, Anelisa Mangcu and Jana Terblanche … [Read more...] about To cast anew: ‘Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt’ at Open City
In Bed with My Sister: Nico Athene’s ‘We Need New Archetypes’
I have had the ambivalent pleasure of playing witness to my sister’s practice … [Read more...] about In Bed with My Sister: Nico Athene’s ‘We Need New Archetypes’
Perversity-Divinity-Wonder: The AVA, 50 Years in the Making
I was last at the AVA to participate in a podcast run by Kirsty Cockerill. The … [Read more...] about Perversity-Divinity-Wonder: The AVA, 50 Years in the Making
Images that Linger: Jo Ractliffe’s ‘Being There’
In 1929, Soviet director Dziga Vertov produced his quintessential Man with a … [Read more...] about Images that Linger: Jo Ractliffe’s ‘Being There’
Acts of Composition at the Threshold: Amber Moir’s ‘Composition by Field’
We alight on art like birds briefly touching down on wires, as sentient … [Read more...] about Acts of Composition at the Threshold: Amber Moir’s ‘Composition by Field’
Resist death, choose life: A conversation with Luyanda Zindela
Multimedia artist and interdisciplinary, Luyanda Zindela, and I sat down to talk … [Read more...] about Resist death, choose life: A conversation with Luyanda Zindela
Cartographic Entanglements: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s ‘conditions’
The distinction drawn by scholars Jared Sexton, and/with Frank Wilderson III, … [Read more...] about Cartographic Entanglements: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s ‘conditions’
Everywhen: ‘Bathini Abafazi?’ at Gallery Fanon
Bathini Abafazi? (What are the women saying?) is the question posed by curator … [Read more...] about Everywhen: ‘Bathini Abafazi?’ at Gallery Fanon
Pivot Point: on Gaelen Pinnock and Mia Thom
The pivot-point inherent within the definition of ‘perspective’ has been … [Read more...] about Pivot Point: on Gaelen Pinnock and Mia Thom
