Writing
The Search For Transcendence
The creative and intellectual treatment of the experiences, conditions, and aspirations of black people never fit quiet neatly within the
The Art of the Possible: Mawande Ka Zenzile
The expectation, given the supposed establishment and progressive maturation of post-1994 democratic structures and systems in South Africa, is that
Black Women in Art
On Black women’s Creativity and the Future Imperfect: Thoughts, Propositions, Issues[1] Black female practitioners in the arts are fundamentally embedded
A general distrust of language
A word from everyday language, self-evident in literary studies, metaphorically used in anthropology, generalized in semiotics, ambivalently circulating in art
The Adequate Compensation for Suffering
What should be the adequate compensation for suffering? The connections between this question, the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s Archive
The Negro Self Improvement Project
Ellen Gallagher, a painter by training, works with “chaos as advertising” (Goodeve 2005:40). Her matter is specifically the magazine advertising directed
Testing the Boundries of Tradition
The physical and material inclusion of hair in art is a contemporary phenomenon and tests the boundaries of traditional art, the
The Audacity of Place and the Limits of Self-Representation
This short paper is a measurable attempt to mediate the real and perceived gaps that locate Africa based artists to








