Intraparadox, Interview with Miné Kleynhans, Advent of Autogo[gy]-logy. PAM 3 September 2025.

[The] genesis of Augury after Autogogues, Miné Kleynhans’s solo exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum started right after the end SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2024 opening ceremony when she was on flight to Bloemfontein. In this podcast, recorded on the morning of 03 September a few hours before this year’s overall winner, runner-up and merit award winners were announced, I try to trace the conception of her solo exhibition and the contextual background of the body of work on show. At the core of this exhibition is a response to the sea of information humanity finds itself drowning in today. The work that I have taken to be the center piece of the exhibition Orbea kaku-occultus due to the fact that it is complemented by a video installation and a conceptual sculpture encapsulate Kleynhans’s preoccupation with play, interactivity and the resultant effects of hyper information we have to navigate through in order to make sense of the world we live in today.

Figure 1. Miné Kleynhans interacting with her installation, *Orbea kako-occultus (2025)*

Trivia

During the interview with Kleynhans, I refer to Paul Virilio’s seminal work The Information Bomb, 2000. I erroneously referred to it as Information Time Bomb. This is an error on my part. The word time is not part of the tittle name. More to the point, that text is one of the texts that anyone who is interested in information science, particularly at this juncture wherein we find ourselves speaking about the AI race, should pore through.

26 September

© Mmutle Arthur Kgokong, 2025

To reference this audio documentation please cite:

Kgokong, M.A. 2025. Intraparadox, Interview with Miné Kleynhans, Advent of Autogo[gy]-logy.03 September 2025. Mmutleak.com-Intraparadox.

Reference credits

Illustration

Miné Kleynhans interacting with her installation, Orbea kako-occultus (2025)

Afterwords

* Original Image of Miné Kleynhans courtesy of Kobus Khün
** Poster image graphics Mmutle Arthur Kgokong
+ The embedded video performance, Orbea kako-occultus (2025), is made available, courtesy of Miné Kleynhans and the photographer Kobus Khün. Please click on the image of the installation to view the video.
<> I remain grateful to Miné Kleynhans for agreeing to sit with me for this follow up interview. Le ka moso.