Tag: ArtSpoken

Mind the Gap

Sennay Ghebreab
Ashraf Johaardien: Incomplete data is an engineering problem until it decides where a child goes to school.

Eyes Wide Listening

Photo by Andreas Gladis
Ashraf Johaardien: Flow is music made with no picture in mind, and it asks the room to listen the same way.

Umklomelo Wogesi

Ashraf Johaardien: Powering the Fak’ugesi Awards 2026.
Ashraf Johaardien: Powering the Fak’ugesi Awards 2026.

Live. Right. Now.

Live. Right. Now.
Ashraf Johaardien: A brief meditation on the rooms where decisions get made.

The future under construction

The future under construction
Ashraf Johaardien: Imagination, Infrastructure and Future Engines at Fak'ugesi 2026.

Provenance

Provenance
Ashraf Johaardien: A brief meditation on the frontier between what a body knows and what a mind can name.

Artists Interrogate the Machine

Artists Interrogate the Machine
Ashraf Johaardien: Everyone talks about AI as if it's one door. Three Fak'ugesi featured artists walk through it in three different directions.

African Imaginaries Initialising at Fak’ugesi

African Imaginaries Initialising at Fak’ugesi
Ashraf Johaardien: Imagination is easy to invoke but harder to sustain.

The journeys that continue to carry us

The TUT Dean’s Concert
Bongani Nicholas Ngomane: The TUT Dean’s Concert became a powerful journey through memory, music and legacy, carried forward by a new generation of artists.

When science comes alive on stage

STEAM
Bongani Nicholas Ngomane: The Adventures of STEAM transforms science into theatre, where young minds learn through laughter, music, movement and imagination.