[3min read] “Dreaming in two places – my mind and the world – both are an illusion of our own making”, so says Zhangzi. While Kunene (Poet Laurette-Mazisi Kunene) takes us on a journey of mystery when contemplating the mind and how the universe is formed, in his unpublished work, The Mystery of the Mind…he …
14 August 2020, 1 min read I happened onto this excerpt this morning, upon which I reflect here, thanks to a friend who sent me a link to Nietzsche somewhere around Woman’s Day – as a note of inspiration. It set me trawling through my untidy Desktop archives of folders within folders, web-page links and …
Taking a break from my all-consuming Dreams as R-evolution installation and an outstanding report, I harkened back to the V-Bag series as the images of the bag yawn in front of me. Sitting with my foot in a vinegar-d bandage (a broken toe) as a result of my wrestling with the ocean for our bags, …
Also powered by the Human Elephant Foundation After scientist, He Jiankui, was sentenced to 3-years in jail for his experimentation with germline gene editing, academics and scientists say a call to open an international debate on somatic and germline gene editing has to be considered. The issue of ethics in any human endeavour will always …
Vanity: its first known use in the 15th century is derived from Anglo-French vanité and before that the Latin, vanitas, which means “emptiness, lack of judgment, foolish pride”; or vānus referring to “empty and lacking content”1. Vanity Fair, the novel of the early 19th Century, satirising British society then and later it became the title …
This work considers the consciousness (or lack thereof) with which we live. The unconscious choices we make become our reality, which mars our future minds and world. Production is want versus need. The consumption of innocence relinquishes responsibility to a primeval desire for control, ownership and power. Creation: gendered roles (acknowledging Colonial influence) has rendered …
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Dreams, Wishes and Expectations artist statement -08-2017 This work is an interrogation on the dynamics of power – women are framed by the larger debates around gender and identity. I have been particularly interested in the notion of an “ordinary” person, framed within the larger debate of where power resides. This installation affirms a claim …
This work is in two parts. A story I once heard at my daughter’s 9th birthday party told by Nomusa Xaba, a storyteller, who shared with us an enchanting narrative on ‘freedom’. It reminded me about the poignancy of imagery. I clearly remember the birds she described, the process of a man trying to destroy …
About this work An architectural frieze documents time and memory. Sikhum //khana //kha︢-b – We Fly to the Moon suggests a subjective historical narrative, shaped within our evolving African landscape: re-defined, re-visioned and re-imagined; a journey determined beyond the wounded narrative. It introduces absurdity and non-rationalism as metaphor and problematizes various historical constructions that are …
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The V-Bag Edition The question regarding the role of non-reproductive sex, the state and the law underpins the controlling mechanisms of governmental bodies and legislation. These are often determined by norms and standards of many countries and includes most democratic spaces. Sexual freedoms on the other hand, which appear not to lie within these controlling …