‘Lo que sabe el agua’ (2026) is a video installation, part of a larger body of work that explores the knowledge and guidance of water, seeing water as ancestral futurity, and as a form of counter mapping that refuses colonial border regimes and knowledge systems. Lo que sabe el agua translates as ‘What water knows’ …
The work ‘The Eaters:: Comedores / The Eaten :: Comidos’ was realised for a group exhibition and cultural exchange project called Conversations in Gondwana which culminated in an exhibition hosted at the Centre for Contemporary Culture São Paulo (CCSP), in Brazil, in 2019. The work allowed for a conversation across histories and geographies, personal experiences …
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Muchoindio is the title of the artwork that forms part of the digital/online art component associated with my PhD project. The online work houses several multi-channel short video pieces that play automatically and on a continuous loop along with selected still imagery. The combination of still and video imagery dynamically loads by scrolling down the …
Smaaklik is a public artwork created for the City of Gent and Africalia between 2010 and 2016. It is more than an artwork, more than a bench, more than a place to sit. It is a site for gathering, an invitation to linger, and a social strategy disguised as urban furniture. The work unfolded over …
As part of the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, themed Cities: Architecture and Society, curated by Cassim Shepard, I was invited to produce a short film profiling Johannesburg. The film, titled JHB626GP, combines digital photographs, archival film, video, and kinetic flash animations to capture the unique urban rhythms of Johannesburg. It explores the city’s historical legacy …
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This article was originally published in the African Cities Reader I. A creation of Chimurenga and the African Centre for Cities: https://chimurengachronic.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/African-Cities-Reader-I-Online-high-res.pdf By Ismail Farouk Joubert Park presents a particular context of the Johannesburg inner city in decline. situated centrally in the downtown area, Joubert Park boasts two large taxi interchanges and a tightly locked …
Photos: Ashley Walters, Poem: Toni Steward This collaborative walk and spatial intervention through performance, sound, poetry and alternative forms of collective mapping took place under the rubric of a public art festival put together to commemorate the centenary of the 1913 Land Act. The LAND festival, put together by the Gordon Institute of Performing …
Trolley pushing activity in the city of Johannesburg provides a necessary service for people wanting to transport heavy baggage through the city. most trolley pushers charge a fee of R20 for a single load, but are seldom paid more than R5 by streetwise customers who know that trolley pushers are in no position to bargain. …
SowetoUprisings.com (2007 – 2009) was a digital mapping project that traced the various routes taken by students from different schools in Soweto on 16 June 1976. By spatially locating personal testimonies and narratives, and identifying landmarks significant to individuals, the project aimed to illuminate the complexity and multiplicity of the day’s events. Developed as an …
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Sitting on the fence in downtown Johannesburg, one would be excused for not noticing anything special about the provided urban furniture being used by the immigrant motor mechanics at the entrance of the Drill Hall. However, the benches which seem purpose designed for the mechanics needs seem disjunct for the simple reason that urban planning …
The main road is crammed with cars and there is always a paper recycling truck or a taxi or a police van obstructing the flow of traffic. Street vendors jostle for position on the crumbling sidewalks to sell everything from individual cigarettes to vegetables. Car guards in faded garments whistle after potential customers. Groups of …
https://trolleyworks.blogspot.com Project Text: The Trolleyworks project was initiated with the primary aim to provide trolley pushers with a legal trolley alternative to the stolen shopping carts being used on the streets of downtown Joburg. A major problem associated with trolley pushing activity has been victimization by the police. Every time a raid occurs, trolley pushers are fined …
Sometimes The Fire (series 1 – 4)2006digital photography and light jet printing61 x 78 cm