For Paulo,
1. We begin this enquiry with BESTIARY OF CAPITAL - HORSE. A banknote, a branch, a horse. 2. Paulo had no biz pairing banknotes with...
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Reviews
iliso_ ekapa
May 13, 20214 min read
eBhakubha: Architecture, the Black Grotesteque and Performative Geography
Vusumzi Nkomo WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ANTAGONIZE ARCHITECTURE? To have things spring up to fight you, grab you by the collar and beat you up...
iliso_ ekapa
Nov 17, 20205 min read
Kwaito On The Move: dis + continuities in the Afrodiaspora
Vusumzi Nkomo In Euro-modern philosophical anthropology and aesthetic judgement, Blacks, as Kant wrote, never “rise above the trifling,”...
iliso_ ekapa
Oct 26, 20204 min read
Sampheka ngogozwane! Ucubungulo lwe-album “Inganekwane” ka Zoë Modiga
Kholeka Shange Kulesisikhathi sesigemegeme somqedazwe ekuthiwa phecelezi i-Corona noma i-Covid-19, u-Zoë Modiga usipha ikhambi elilapha...
iliso_ ekapa
Oct 1, 20202 min read
To wallow in the Void
Vusumzi Nkomo “Vertigo must have seized them…” 1 I want to argue that Nkosi X’s VoidTape is a project of Vertigo, which is to say, it is...
iliso_ ekapa
Jul 3, 20204 min read
Sam Nhlengethwa’s meditations on time and space, ‘sights & sounds’ of it all.
Azola Dayile and Vusumzi Nkomo November 2019 saw us one evening at the Goodman Gallery in Rosebank – our first time – to witness the...
iliso_ ekapa
Mar 18, 202010 min read
When Fire Meets Paper: An Interview with Ofentse Seshabela
Ofentse’s show at Eclectica Contemporary invites us into a conversation about the precarity of Black life, the imminence of Black death,...
iliso_ ekapa
Mar 18, 202010 min read
I Paint What I Like: A Conversation with Blessing Ngobeni
Despite a Antarctic thawing 36°C Cape Town blaze from Helios, Blessing, winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (for Visual Arts)...
iliso_ ekapa
Mar 18, 20204 min read
Knuckle City: Black Male Lives are a Strange Matter
by Vusumzi Nkomo To liberate Black working class masculinity from decadence is not a favour, but a historical task. Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s...
iliso_ ekapa
Mar 5, 20204 min read
Family politics and the supernatural
by Matt Carotenuto African documentary films rarely provide a window into intimate family disputes. The Letter by Maia Lekow and...
iliso_ ekapa
Mar 4, 20205 min read
The Land of Many Mothers - A Review of Nwabisa Plaatjie's ‘When We Awake’
by Kitso Seti We smiled both sadly and happily, packed our bags, and kissed our single mothers goodbye. We were on the quest of bettering...
iliso_ ekapa
Feb 19, 20201 min read
David Koloane
by Vusumzi Nkomo The Resilience & circles 1 You can’t ignore the circles in Bra Dave’s work. Curator Bra Thembinkosi Goniwe says these...
iliso_ ekapa
Jan 30, 20205 min read
What lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history
by Lindelwa Dalamba In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a...
iliso_ ekapa
Jan 30, 20204 min read
A Reflection on 'Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018'
by Kholeka Shange Ninety six years ago, imbongikazi of the Chizama clan, Nontsizi Mgqwetho wrote a poem aptly titled Ukutula!...
iliso_ ekapa
Sep 2, 20198 min read
Ngwa As Memory: A Cinematic Exploration Of Escape (flight) + Capture (death)
Vusumzi Nkomo and Ncedisa Mpemnyama "It is the curse of the body to remember when memory has faded away”. Sisonke Papu, inyikima Not long...
iliso_ ekapa
Aug 13, 20192 min read
Kujenga- Night at the Marketplace
Vusumzi Nkomo a sonic vignette of a place (market), a time (night), and the inevitable collision of the two. The place is presented as...
iliso_ ekapa
May 21, 20192 min read
Earl’s grief: in defense of the dead
by Vusumzi Nkomo 1 “/I just want to be of use to my ancestors/“ -- Abbey Lincoln 2 Bra Willie’s absence in Thebe’s life makes an...
iliso_ ekapa
Apr 30, 20193 min read
The Case of Amber + the Ally subjectivity: Why I didn’t watch Moonchild at #CTIJF19
Vusumzi Nkomo Frank Wilderson III, in an interview with Saidiya Hartman, speaks of the un-reliability of the white ‘ally’ positionality...
iliso_ ekapa
Apr 30, 20192 min read
Free Tape: a year later
Vusumzi Nkomo All scribblers and art critics, in the Cape at least, should all be ashamed of how we’ve all kept quiet, for an entire...
iliso_ ekapa
Apr 29, 20194 min read
If tonight be the night of the long knives, sing on sister!
(This article was originally published on the 17th of September, 2018) Njabulo Zwane i sharpen knives in the long night, awaiting the...
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