What an extraordinary and disruptive year we have had to date. While most of us long for normalcy, I suspect we would be better served by embracing much of our new normal. During this time of Covid-19, hosting a film festival in a physical theatre would most likely have limited appeal. So this year, the…
Picós [have] served as communal entertainment for Colombians in coastal areas, where a majority of the country’s black population lives. The culture of the sound systems have always embraced and promoted African music and, as FACT Mag points out, ‘played a vital role in building a collective diasporan identity for many Afro-Colombians living in a…
Sculptural disciplines are most associated with the weight and heaviness of dense materials, expertly carved or rendered to create an artwork depicted as a third dimensional expression – present in the spaces we inhabit from varying tangible angles. Korean sculptor Do Ho Suh defies all notions of attachments to sedimentary materials, employing instead, the tactile…
Khumo Sebambo is a writer and curator whose work has emphasised collaboration and a deep knowledge of the artists she has worked with throughout her growing career. Her practice as a curator explores collective memory, nostalgia, popular culture and includes a special interest in textile arts. This is the foundation for her engagement with art….
I am convinced that by visual means alone one can persuade the viewer to feel joy, to cry, to hate, to love, to experience agitation, to suffer. Everything depends on the passionate heart of the person who, through the eye of his camera, is the first viewer of the film. We must discover the visible…
Known for their prolific and expansive career as an editor, creative director, stylist & fashion editor, wordsmith & copywriter, and now filmmaker – Ky Bxshxff offers us a rare and precious moment of vulnerability within the fashion / creative industry through their directorial debut CABIN FEVER. The film depicts interchanging actors characterising “The Boy”. A…
Jozi Days is described as a short music documentary by its director London based Tom Ringsby, shot in January of 2019 and documenting a week-long recording session of collaborations between various Johannesburg based artists in a temporary studio space. I find it difficult to locate a single word that succinctly describes what is encapsulated in…
I was thirty years old when I became a mother. This made me think about how in the USSR I would have been referred to as an “Old Mother” on my medical card. Which is crazy when you think about it. Childless women over the age of forty or fifty are often seen as purposeless…
Humanity’s habit is to think about time in a linear way— to put things in order, in a line — so that we have a series of independent facts. Actions change the course of history. I am only like this today because my parents did things in one way. Other things happened with my grandparents,…
This past weekend I attended a walk-about at The Mixed Reality Workshop (TMRW) Gallery, for Fred Clarke’s solo exhibition titled Cognoscenti — and while I’ve engaged with the sonic fabulations Clarke magics into being with the music he produces under the moniker Mathroom, it was quite something else to experience his visual creations materialised through…
Lerato Motaung is an artist whose work is created in his processes of evolution and experimentation. His desire to form intimate understandings of materials and methods of practice have led him to frame himself within the porous sphere of mixed media. While studying for his National Diploma in Fine Art from Tshwane University of Technology…
Living environments remain crucial sites of interrogation of our collective and individual cultural relationships to the daily realities of gender, race, privilege and propriety. The idea of house/home/shelter as both a right and a luxury collide as ambiguous entities grafted to the constant morph of capitalism and technology, commerce and spectacle. Even within the established…
