Author: Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/mmutleak

I am based in the City of Tshwane, South Africa. to a greater extent my writings cover the Visual Arts with a focus in documentation and archiving of artists' lives. To a lesser extent some of my writings cover television, movies and sometime Music that I find interesting. Occasionally, when I get the itch, I pen opinion pieces on matters of public and socio-political interest. Over the last few years my work has gravitated towards working with artists to build their biographical archives with an aim to preserve their contributions to South African art both in audio and transcripts under the Intraparadox series.

Intraparadox: A Correspondence with Nancy Ndaba on behalf of Abigail Mabeba and Linah Mokoena

In this edition of Intraparadox I speak to Nancy Ndaba against the backdrop of the group exhibition that her group, ‘Free Breed’, hosted at the South African State Theatre from 15 to 19 June 2021 as part of the State Theatre’s Youth Expression Festival 2021. … Read More Intraparadox: A Correspondence with Nancy Ndaba on behalf of Abigail Mabeba and Linah Mokoena

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19 June, 202102 July, 2021 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/mmutleak

Intraparadox: An Interview with Patrick Rulore, A Stage for Moments

Patrick Rulore’s winning of SASOL New Signatures Art Competition in 2019 might have come as a surprise to anyone who has followed this art competition closely over the years. … Read More Intraparadox: An Interview with Patrick Rulore, A Stage for Moments

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16 June, 202118 June, 2021 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/mmutleak

Intraparadox, A Correspondence with Navel Seakamela

In this interception, entirely done via email correspondence, on the eve of his Solo Exhibition at Kalashnikovv Gallery, I attempted to locate Navel Seakamela’s art practice. … Read More Intraparadox, A Correspondence with Navel Seakamela

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08 June, 202110 October, 2021 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/mmutleak

Intraparadox, An Interview with Isaac ‘Sir Ike’ Nkoana

In 2018, in an attempt to understand what was happening in the 1960s and 1970s in the history of our country’s art history, I was privilege to have the opportunity to sit down with one of the surviving artists from that era who based in Tshwane, Isaac ‘Sir Ike’ Nkoana. The publication of this interview… Read More Intraparadox, An Interview with Isaac ‘Sir Ike’ Nkoana

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21Column – 1’an’e

WhatsON! OUT THERE, Archive April-May 2021… Read More 21Column – 1’an’e

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31 May, 202102 October, 2021 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/mmutleak

Intraparadox, An Interview with Ilandi Barkhuizen

Through 11 artworks that presents her in different cultural attires indigenous to South Africa, Ilandi Barkhuizen reasserts her identity as a South African and challenges the stereo typical notion of cultural artefacts being the exclusive of the cultural groupings within which they are conceived.… Read More Intraparadox, An Interview with Ilandi Barkhuizen

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18 May, 202126 June, 2021 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/mmutleak

Intraparadox, An Interview with Lerato Themba Kuzwayo

When an entourage of artists consisting of Charles Sokhaya Nkosi, Ezekiel Budeli, Tumelo Mokopakgosi, Justice Mokoena and his prodigy Muziwakhe Ndhlovu arrived at the Pretoria Art Museum on 09 April 2021, it faced a monumental task of translating the Setswana proverbs of one of our great artists Lefifi Tladi.… Read More Intraparadox, An Interview with Lerato Themba Kuzwayo

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Intraparadox, An Interview with Themba Msiza

ASIA: Go Tsamaya ke go Bona reflected on the perpetual growth of regret, nostalgia, grief and joy that African foreign are confronted with in our country. Its portrait of how South Africans are detached from the rest of our continent and the experiences of foreign nationals South Africa.… Read More Intraparadox, An Interview with Themba Msiza

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