Manifesta Biennial | Marcin Dudek’s ‘Giochi Senza Frontiere’ mirrors and shatters our past and present
“My generation, those born in the late ‘70s—I was born in 1979—is a generation of immigrants. I live in Bruxelles. In 2004, when Poland joined the European Union, borders opened ..
Manifesta12 Biennial | Ishion Hutchinson | Rethinking Ozio: on the Word as liberation from the Word
The Italian term ozio has multiple meanings. It is associated with idleness, leisure, sloth, contemplation, inactivity, indolence, inertia, fatigue, either triggered by nature, o..
Benin City | A unifying rainbow of music, spoken word and city life
As much as noisy, chaotic and increasingly gentrified, big cities all over the world are cauldrons of creativity, diversified bustling interlinked communities generating ideas, c..
Wiley is hitting the screens with a biopic on his early life
There’s very good news for grime lovers across the world. Wiley has reportedly signed with Pulse Films and BMG to create a biopic about his early life and the start of his musica..
‘The boys who love flowers’ is the series challenging black hypermasculinity
To this day, colours like blue and pink are used to indicate the gender of newborns and children, a mental association so deeply rooted in our cultural baggage that even when we ..
Pathways | Watch Eniye Kagbala’s new mesmerising short-film
Womanhood, self-discovery, creativity and a strong desire to help, these are the pillars of Eniye Kagbala’s new project, Pathways.
The short-film, created in collaboration wit..
“Stay Woke” is the new watchword | Here’s why
As a number of online dictionaries describe it, the term “woke” in its numerous expressions refers to the act of becoming alert or aware of something, especially something that n..
The Prophecy | Fabrice Monteiro’s new apocalyptic work urges the world to wake up
The Belgian-Beninese, Dakar-based photographer Fabrice Monteiro has shocked the world with his latest project, The Prophecy.
The series of pictures allegorically depict the en..
Boom for Real| One week to go for Basquiat’s retrospective at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s legend precedes him. It always has since he first emerged as one of the incognito masterminds behind the duo called SAMO that made witty graffiti statement..
‘Closer Apart’ | Okzharp & Manthe Ribane’s debut album is here
Hyperdub has officially announced the release of the full-length album of the coolest duo in the international underground electronic landscape, Okzharp and Manthe Ribane.
He ..