In 2009, a news item in the Hollywood Reporter announced that a film adaptation of the late British writer’s J.G. Ballard’s Running Wild, starring Samuel L. Jackson, was to be produced in South Africa. The source material revolves around children of a British exclusive gated community massacring their parents, the savage violence a psychotic, perverse…
Having started as an abstract project between Dr. Tegan Bristow and Jepchumba, the podcast series Future Lab Africa has emerged with a new direction. Initially set up as an online space to explore projects and discourse around digital art and technology around Africa, the new season, Future Archives, expands on the aim to unpack Africa’s unexplored legacy…
Like South Africa, Mozambique has a buzzing independent cultural scene. And as with SA, a legacy of geographical and historical isolation hinders artists efforts to connect themselves into global networks. But, fortunately, there are individuals and organisations that are tackling these systematic challenges head on. Now in its third year of operations, the Maputo Fast…
Scattered. Pin-points positioned. X-marks-the-spot on the site of intervention. Latitudinal lines of social disparity. Captured and activated between continental shifts in a spaciotemporal moment of defiance. [CROP] is an acronym for Creative Resistance & Open Processes. Established with an ideology centred around inclusivity and accessibility, the collective aims to make art free. The participating…
The young artist, Luke Rudman, comes from a creative home. Despite the unfortunate and untimely death of his father, his legacy has instilled a deep appreciation for art in Luke from a young age. The eighteen-year-old artist is popularly known for his intricate body art creations. “I started exploring my body as a canvas after…
pictorial nerve is an ongoing poster series conceived and published by offsetculture.art. The series connects contemporary art, design, illustration and other visual manifestations of culture. I had a chat with offsetculture.art co-founder Lara Koseff to find out more about the recently launched first iteration of this series. Please share more about offsetculture.art? offsetculture.art is a website…
Cantilevered concrete extends into a crisply lit tower foregrounding the bright cerulean winter sky. Tire treads mark the intersection of an arterial road, the pulse connecting the suburbs of Johannesburg to the heart of the city. Adjacent, a narrow side street reverberates the sounds of lorries and delivery vans. The bustling sidewalk is grounded by…
KutalaChopeto‘s exhibition opened at The Point of Order on World Refugee Day. Teresa Firmino and Esenje Helena Uambembe are an art duo who work collaboratively under the name KutalaChopeto. Their collective practice began in 2016. For this latest project, they focused their research on different communities based predominantly in the North West and Gauteng province – reconsidering…
Oroma Elewa is a visual and performance artist that identifies as a transnational African. Born in Nigeria, she relocated to New York when she was 15 years old, where she now lives and practices her art, intertwined with time in Marrakesh. She is known for facilitating the path towards a specific African aesthetic that can…
Recent years have seen a creative boom within Cape Town. There is an energy of innovation afoot and this city’s creatives have the game locked down. Playing their cards with calm calculated steps they are pushing the boundaries and making a change within this creative climate. Identifying four of the individuals who have been integral…
The braiding of black women’s hair is no simple weekend outing. And as has been shown in more open, public discussions about black hair amongst black women, the process of going to the salon, choosing a style and applying the braids is also being recognized as a series of processes which are cultural, community-driven and…
Abbie Stirrup probes expressive, performance wear as a fashion designer and performance artist. The nucleus of Stirrup’s expression is the mixture of movement, performance, and art. Stirrup is known for making use of her own body as a canvas and analyzing how the human body can be amplified. By utilizing performance and spatial design as a…
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