big black – l dopa
In memory of Gerdte Terblanche, who left us seven years ago today. Miss your rotten smile! I got a sickness sweet as a love note I got a headache like a pillow Called me Daisy, called me Daisy, called...
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Fire in My Belly (1987): David Wojnarowicz Music: Diamanda Galas Made by David Wojnarowicz for Rosa von Praunheim’s Silence = Death (1990). A positive diagnosis for HIV in 1987 didn’t leave you with...
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Song from Soap&Skin‘s debut album, Lovetune for Vacuum (2009, Play It Again Sam Records). Video produced and directed by Benjamin and Stefan Ramirez Pérez. Photography by Anja Plaschg, Benjamin...
View Articletindersticks – city sickness (1993)
“Our first film. This Way Up had money to make a video, we wanted to make something more like a film. We were told about Jarvis and Steve from Pulp, who were making films with Martin Wallace. We made...
View Articledanni diana on bogus muthi (and ad agencies)
A year or so ago, some colleagues of mine did a campaign for a film called Night Drive, which was a slashy, schlocky horror that centred on the body-parts-for-muthi trade. The campaign handed out a...
View Articlecome with us to the edge of wrong tomorrow
I’m part of the South African curatorial/organising team for this series of collaborative multi-medium performances. If you’re in Cape Town, check EOW 9.1 out tomorrow night. It will involve an insane...
View Articlefire in my belly (1987)
Fire in My Belly (1987): David Wojnarowicz Music: Diamanda Galas Made by David Wojnarowicz for Rosa von Praunheim’s Silence = Death (1990). A positive diagnosis for HIV in 1987 didn’t leave you with...
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Something wonderful I came across HERE this week while trying to find Rock Rose essential oil online. Echo and Narcissus. Helen Stratton, 1915. The daffodil has been adopted by both the American...
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