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It might be a fiendishly cold run-in to Spring Day this week, but that doesn’t stop Durban dancers and entertainers from getting in the mood.

JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience is an annual festival honouring performance artists working in the dance space. Taking place under the title Border Crossings, this year’s festival interrogates physical, spiritual and performative boundaries. After presenting numerous works to the festival with the Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre group, Jay Pather will headline this year.   Like they did in 2020, the Centre for Creative Arts is gearing itself up for its second digital iteration of the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience. For the last 23 years, this festival has offered performance artist...

Artist Thania Petersen has embarked on a project to bring art into minibus taxis. As a pilot for the project, she covered a taxi in artwork that interrogates the construction of ‘Cape Malay’ and ‘Coloured’ identity and proposes a way forward.

LOOK: Minibus taxi becomes a moving masterpiece Share Acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist Thania Petersen who has turned a minibus taxi into a moving masterpiece that can be appreciated by passengers enroute, says she wanted to make artwork that would be accessible to everyone. The mobile artist intervention is part of the UnInfecting the City public arts festival currently underway in Cape Town. Athlone-born Petersen, who has studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London and exhibited both locally and internationally said what makes the project significant was “taking the art b...

'Ozelwe embethe', 2020. Cow dung, oil paint and gesso on canvas. 170 x 300cm. ( © Mawande Ka Zenzile. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town. Photography Mario Todeschini ) The decolonisation of art and art studies has received a boost following the publication of the 49th issue of OnCurating. The issue is titled Decolonial Propositions and co-edited by Nkule Mabaso and Jyoti Mistry. Set against the growing urgency for transformation in art institutions and universities, it proposes decolonisation as a politics of recognition. OnCurating is an independent journal based at the...