I've always found it remarkable how scientists within biology and psychology distinguish between the brain and the...
Interviews
The Quest of Learning with Rising Film-Maker Masedi Ranyane
The future of film-making rests in innovative hands. Masedi Ranyane is an emerging film-director and cinematographer,...
The Insatiable Curiosity of Mikhailia Petersen’s Multidisciplinarian Image-Making
To be a multi-disciplinarian is to be insatiably curious - it means, at its root, that one’s creative process is...
Photographer Steve Marais On Finding A New Creative Philosophy
Photographer Steve Marais is taking down his website soon. Ironically, for me, it's one of the most interesting...
‘Exploring Nigerian Heritage Through Clothing with Tolu Oye’s Meji Meji’
“We infuse [our designs with] the legacy and the constitution of traditional Nigerian style. We bring those styles,...
A Full Moon With Mars Baby: Inside The Blue & Yellow World of His Latest Offering ‘LUNA’
Since being discovered, initially as a producer and collaborator for the first signee of independent record label,...
‘The Sanctity of the Shadow’ with photographer Zander Opperman, AKA Ugly Bruv
Zander Opperman AKA ‘Ugly Bruv’ is a rebel of South African photography. With a reverence for the darker, harder and...
Between-worlds of ancestral and contemporary existence
In an Afrofuturist context, one of things I find most fascinating is its ability to take the linearity of time - in...
Naledi Holtman’s Dual Sonic Dialogue as raresoftware and Gonubie
It is rare to meet someone with such a tacit understanding of their own possibilities; even more rare, to meet someone...
Kristi Vlok’s Love Affair With The Feminine Experience
I am always interested in how creative people arrived at the confluence of their practice. In fashion, this is always...
HAN Ceramics on Clay’s Biomorphic Potential for Self-Study
Ceramics have been having a moment. In the design space, few objects demonstrate as much reciprocity between form and...
‘In The Mix of Global Black Excellence’ with blaqkongo
From a rich lineage of 4/4 synthesised kick drums and a typical BPM (beats per minute) ranging from 120 to 140,...
