Mining Sounds: Lagos – Cairo
Emeka Ogboh‘s art works require audiences to hone their listening and hearing skills. Turning sounds into words, he documents his hometown in A Personal Reflection on Soundscapes. “I would be somewhere, and the everyday sounds suddenly seemed as interesting to me as the sounds of any music I could hear inside the concert hall. They just seemed […]
Washing Henry – a letter from New York
by Dave McKenzie As a memento of the process, I received a letter that begins with “Dear Fellow American” and ends with “Welcome to the joy, responsibility, and freedom of American citizenship. God bless you and God bless America.” This change in status from resident-alien to American citizen can be traced not to patriotism but […]
Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition
Interactions Interactions is an edited excerpt from filmmaker, writer and artist Aryan Kaganof’s new short film of the same name. Originating out of a commission by the Theater Institut Netherlands – which wanted a “film report” on a meeting of art professionals – Kaganof created a satire of bureaucracy, cultural administration and distorted power balances. […]
Death by Memory [of Freedom]; Truth & Reconciliation
A tryptych in honour of Steve Biko. Firstly, Graeme Arendse, as his alter-ego Ramgee, presents In Memory of Freedom, Gail Smith then scrutinizes the remembrance of Biko in ‘post’ apartheid South Africa, before Ramgee returns with an alternative story, using words drawn from testimonies to the TRC on the death of BC leader. Twenty-five* years after four burly white supremacists pulverised Steve Biko’s brain, […]
America Will Always Blame…
Rigo 23, born Ricardo Gouveia, is a Portuguese muralist, painter, and political artist residing in San Francisco, California. For over 20 years he’s been travelling the globe, placing murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile work in public situations where viewers are encouraged to examine their relationship to their community, their role as unwitting advocates of public […]