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Feature | Encountering fiction in South African works of art

Feature | Encountering fiction in South African works of art

For Latitudes, I wrote a follow-up to my text on encountering art in South African fiction. This text looks at how South African artists…
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Essay | Unfathomable — an interdisciplinary and collective inquiry into grief and memory

Essay | Unfathomable — an interdisciplinary and collective inquiry ...

I was invited to view and reflect on the theatre-film version of Unfathomable, screened at the Bioscope in mid 2022. This essay, published…
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Feature | Encountering South African artists in works of fiction

Feature | Encountering South African artists in works of fiction

For Latitudes, I wrote about two of my favourite things — South African art and literature — and their generative intersections. SAFM…
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Essay | Juliet Armstrong: “The forms become an extension of myself”

Essay | Juliet Armstrong: “The forms become an extension of myself”

For ArtFormes, I wrote on the life and work of the South African ceramicist, Juliet Armstrong (1950–2012).
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Essay | Constant Translation: The Making of Season 9 of The Centre for the Less Good Idea

Essay | Constant Translation: The Making of Season 9 of The Centre ...

A text for The Centre for the Less Good Idea, mapping and contextualising the processes and methodologies that make up its 9th Season…
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HOW | Mandla Mbothwe at The Centre for the Less Good Idea

HOW | Mandla Mbothwe at The Centre for the Less Good Idea

This text was produced for The Centre for the Less Good Idea’s HOW series. It documents the process and outcome of the immersive…
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Essay | Writing Site: Reflections on the role of stories in architecture

Essay | Writing Site: Reflections on the role of stories in archite...

At various points throughout 2020, I engaged with an architectural research unit at the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of…
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Essay | Some thoughts on art and work

Essay | Some thoughts on art and work

Words by Dave Mann. Images by Chris Gouws.
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Essay | In the Water

Essay | In the Water

Words and images by David Mann
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Essay | Durban Dreaming

Essay | Durban Dreaming

Words by Dave Mann and photographs by Niamh Walsh-Vorster
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Creativity and Currency in the City

Creativity and Currency in the City

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Essay | Driving Anxieties

Essay | Driving Anxieties

Words and photograph by Dave Mann
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Essay | Songs about Home

Essay | Songs about Home

Words by Dave Mann
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Essay | The Toasted Cheese and Black Coffee

Essay | The Toasted Cheese and Black Coffee

Words by Dave Mann
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Essay | Sweat and Chemicals: Spray Can Memories of Youth

Essay | Sweat and Chemicals: Spray Can Memories of Youth

Words by Dave Mann | Photography by Cale Waddacor of Graffiti South Africa shot between 2006–2011 in Cape Town.
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Essay | Painting is personal: South African graffiti as an intimate artform

Essay | Painting is personal: South African graffiti as an intimate...

Words by Dave Mann and photographs by Cale Waddacor
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