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Artist Talk: Daniel Lima
Art For Humanity City Campus, DUT, Anton Lembede Street, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South AfricaDaniel Lima is a Brazilian multimedia artist that explores design and space in the urban ambient.
Sovereignty
"We are always imagining something that looks like sovereignty, and if it feels out of reach we are compelled to reach toward it anyway."
Creative Writing Workshop: Zakes Mda
Art For Humanity City Campus, DUT, Anton Lembede Street, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South AfricaYou are invited to join us for a creative writing workshop by Professsor Zakes Mda, hosted in collaboration with the Centre for Creative Arts, Time of the Writer Festival 2024. PROFESSOR ZAKES MDA is a South African, Lesotho and Appalachian American African writer, painter, filmmaker, and music composer. He holds an MFA (Theatre) and an MA […]
Deseni Soobben Artist Talk
Art For Humanity City Campus, DUT, Anton Lembede Street, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South AfricaForced Removals: Newslands, Durban, 1985 Deseni Soobben teaches Photojournalism in the Journalism Programme at Durban University of Technology. Whilst studying Photography at DUT, she photographed sports events for The Graphic newspaper. Soobben then joined the Afrapix Collective with Cedric Nunn, Rafs Mayet, Omar Badsha and Paul Weinberg, to name a few. She also worked at the Durban […]
Alka Dass Artist Talk
Art For Humanity City Campus, DUT, Anton Lembede Street, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South AfricaAlka Dass. Transdisciplinary artist based in Durban, South Africa. I strings beads of storytelling, myth, memory, trauma and identity through the lens of belonging and migration. These themes present themselves through cyanotypes, thread, found materials, personal family archives, and modes of making that are often glossed over as craft or as dated feminine […]
Rafs Mayet Artist Talk
Rafs Mayet, Cedric Nunn at Afrapix darkroom, circa 1985 Born and raised in the vibrant Warwick Triangle, Rafs Mayet attended Melbourne Primary and Umbilo High Schools. After matriculating, he embarked on a varied career path, exploring roles as a burner/welder in shipyards, a computer operator, a trainee electrician at SASOL, a roadie for various bands, and […]
Cedric Nunn Artist Talk
Art For Humanity City Campus, DUT, Anton Lembede Street, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South AfricaCedric Nunn is an award-winning documentary photographer and artist based in Mangethe on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast. Nunn began making photographs in 1982 and joined the Johannesburg based photographic association and agency Afrapix in the same year. Nunn was a longstanding member of Aprapix and continued to work with the agency until it closed in […]