Tag: Tshwane University of Technology Department of Fine and Applied Arts
The next interception, Kutlwano Monyai. Weaving Connotations.
For my next guest on Intraparadox, Phoka Nyokong, art practice is an investigative tool used to interogate the potentiality of the visal arts, particularly painting. May we find the artist.… Read More The next interception, Kutlwano Monyai. Weaving Connotations.
Intraparadox, Interview with Phoka Nyokong. Hymnotic Pierce. PAM. 15 August 2023.
The next interception, Phoka Nyokong. A hymnotic Pierce.
For my next guest on Intraparadox, Phoka Nyokong, art practice is an investigative tool used to interogate the potentiality of the visal arts, particularly painting. May we find the artist.… Read More The next interception, Phoka Nyokong. A hymnotic Pierce.
Intraparadox, The Blank Canvas Edition, Justice Mokoena. Tracings. PAM 19 July 2023
In the second edition of the Blank Canvas Edition, I pay homage to a master printer who has contributed immensely in visual arts education within the confines of formal institutional learning. … Read More Intraparadox, The Blank Canvas Edition, Justice Mokoena. Tracings. PAM 19 July 2023
Intraparadox, Lerato Motaung, a hexagonical experience
Lerato Motaung’s work initiate a conversation long overdo. A conversation that acknowledges the male identity, like its counterpart, as a social construct. It is a result of nurture. His most identifiable icon, multiple eyes, speaks of an unsettled condition wherein our awareness of our identity and place in the society is continuously questioned.… Read More Intraparadox, Lerato Motaung, a hexagonical experience
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
Speech: The Nature of an Artist’s journey
On the 7 February 2015 at about ten in the morning I was about to read the prepared speech below at the opening of Tshwane University of Technology Department of Fine and Applied Arts BTech exhibition while I noticed, in the sea of the crowd nestle here and there serious looks including a couple of people who rolled their eyes upwards in the ‘here it comes’ attitude. This together with the occasional air blows from the nearby air con which ruffled my prepared speech papers in its duel against the onslaught of summer heat convinced me to ditch the speech and speak from an improvised angle. I doubt if anyone ate from my palms. Contrary to popular believe of the little circle I belong to, I am never comfortable speaking in public, even if it’s about what I feel passionate about, art. I find solace in the written text. Presently I hope that the speech below does justice to my improvised performance.… Read More Speech: The Nature of an Artist’s journey



