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Creating a movement: Two of Septober Energy’s co-founders Flames Shilowa (Vusi Hlatywayo) (left) and Sound of Xee (Xolisa Tshomela) (right). Photo: Supplied

Umbrella of sound and resistance

More than a collective, Septober Energy is a living ecosystem, weaving archival research, DJ sets and experimental performance into South Africa’s sonic landscape

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Improvising the image: The Centre for the Less Good Idea hosted the second iteration of their expansive experimentation with intention, deep listening and meaning-making: Sounding Pictures. Photos: Zivanai Matangi

Lost in Joburg, found in sound

Stripping films of their original scores, ‘Sounding Pictures’ invites musicians and audiences alike into a charged, unpredictable experiment in collective interpretation

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Consuming passion: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation garden for Fanon, in which earthworms turn a book by 20th-century political philosopher Frantz Fanon into soil. Photos: Anthea Pokroy

The garden that eats Frantz Fanon

Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation turns theory into soil, questioning who gets to decide what’s important — and why

  • Eyaaz
6 min read