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Work
Writing
Book
Talks
Short Stories
"Manual for Mourning a Fling",
Punya 2.0
,
2024
"In the Shadow of the Skyscrapers",
New Contrast
,
2023
"Cassock Billowing",
Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives
,
2023
“Of Love, Loss and Watermelons ...”,
The Mail & Guardian
, 2017
“This Other Moody Guy”
P
rufrock Magazine
,
2016
Fish River Canyon, 2020 (35mm)
Art Writing
"What Time Hides Forever in Plain Sight: the Timeliness of Adrian Fortuin",
Artthrob
,
February 2024
"Sensing Space-Time through the Kinetic Laws of Birdsong: Rahima Gambo",
Mousse Magazine
, June 2023
"Field Notes: MADEYOULOOK, Documenta 15",
e-flux Art & Education
, August 2022
"Notes on a Speculative Photo Album: Gabrielle Goliath’s ‘This song is for…’"
Artthrob
,
July 2022
"When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists 1940 – 2000
at Norval Foundation",
Artthrob
,
May 2022
"The courage and catharsis of Tracey Rose"
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N
ew Frame
,
April 2022
"Silkscreening the Pandemic",
New Frame
,
June 2021
“Isaac Zavale’s visual ode to Joburg’s multiplicity”
,
New Frame
,
September 2020
“BATTLECRY: On Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s volcanoes”,
Bubblegum Club
,
June 2020
“Sense of Place”,
Bubblegum Club
, April 2020
Book Reviews
"Portrait of the poet as a genius",
Johannesburg Review of Books
,
February 2023
"Zikhona Valela’s campaign against erasure",
New Frame
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May 2022
"CA Davids, a quiet revolutionary",
New Frame
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May 2022
"Black and feminist in SA",
New Frame
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September 2021
"To photograph Switzerland is to rephotograph it",
The Johannesburg Review of Books
,
August 2021
"The anti-apartheid posters of Medu",
New Frame
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April 2021
“Masande Ntshanga’s existential experimentation”,
New Frame
,
December 2020
Essays
A Personal Anthology
,
April 2021
“A Somber School Story”,
Doek!
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March 2021
“The Filmmakers advancing a radical Black Afrikaans”,
New Frame
,
November 2020
“Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning”,
The Mail & Guardian
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July 2020
“The Coffee Commons”,
School of Commons
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June 2020
“Azibuye – The 360° Virtual Reality Film”,
Bubblegum Club
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May 2020
“Hot girls in Cape Town”
,
The Single Story Foundation (TSSF) Journal,
March 2019
“Waterworks: An Igby Prize essay about urinary tracts and aqueducts”,
The Kalahari Review
,
J
uly 2018
“Arundhati Roy in Johannesburg—An essay on essays”,
Africa’s A Country
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October 2017
“Bibles, bombs and God as love”,
The Mail & Guardian
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April 2017
“Low-key for the woke gang”,
The Mail & Guardian
,
March 2017
“The lesson of Marikana”,
Africa’s A Country,
July 2015
“Dope Saint Jude messes with Cape Town’s head,”
Africa’s A Country
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March 2015
“Performing Society’s Provocations”,
Africa’s A Country
,
March 2015
“Maboneng on fire”.
Africa’s A Country
,
April 2015
“Toolbox for a Revolution” in
Lines: State of the Nation
, Goodman Gallery, 2012