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Zolile Phethane – Presents Chaotic CBD Arts

Wesley Pepper — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:17:49 +0000

Chaotic CBD is the latest exhibition by Zolile Phetshane and serves as a sneak preview to his solo exhibitions, Come Get Your Gold which will open in Spring 2022 in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The exhibition deals with the mass migration to metropoles in South Africa in search of a better life and financial freedom. [...]

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#TheOpenCityProject – Solo Exhibition

Wesley Pepper — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:22:00 +0000

Wesley Pepper presents #TheOpenCityProject – Solo Exhibition Art is a Verb! Not a Noun www.wesleypepper.com www.mapcontemporary.co.za ___ The Open City Project approaches the city’s space through the social reality of the streets as a dynamic space of experimentation and energy. Im interested in people that uses and imagines the dialect mesh, history, race, culture, language and [...]

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Help Support #TheOpenCityProject through Crowd Funding

Wesley Pepper — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:25:04 +0000

The Open City Project approaches the city’s space through the social reality of the streets as a dynamic space of experimentation and energy. Pepper is interested in people that use and imagine the dialect mesh, history, race, culture, language and aesthetics. His artwork will express the voices and emotions of those who are excluded and [...]

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Book Marks

Wesley Pepper — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:09:32 +0000

A tragi-comedy about friendship, racism and decolonization (as well as reading …) on the wrong side of the rainbow They are all on the edge. Each has weaknesses. There are no innocents. These people are Vish Naidoo (Luversan Gerard), a divorced, Indian businessman/deal-maker; Stanton de Villiers (Craig Morris), a white, gay man of Afrikaner ancestry [...]

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Poetry Feature – Callum Andrew McGhee

Consciousness Admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:04:58 +0000

My name is Callum Andrew McGhee. I am from Johannesburg, born in Roodepoort many years ago in 1983. I have travelled a lot and experienced a lot of things, both good and bad. I play guitar and piano, but most importantly I love putting my personality onto paper. I write short stories and poetry about [...]

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Thina Dube – Artist Feature

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:42:43 +0000

Using his own skillfully crafted handmade paper, Thina Dube’s work explores the politics of language in South Africa, and the ways in which individual identities are dramatically shaped by what languages they can or cannot speak. In particular he is interested in English as means of control and manipulation in relation to indigenous South African [...]

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#Im Sick Of This Shit – Social Activism

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:24:04 +0000

The Concept: Brainchild of South African renowned fine artist Wesley Pepper (www.wesleypepper.com) and in celebration of www.consciousness.co.za Magazine’s 10 year anniversary, the concept stems from the Street Art Consciousness that Art is Not Exclusive! That art is a verb and not a noun. We are producing a commercial product with the aim to galvanize a specific consciousness [...]

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Mrisi Makondo – Artist Feature

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:30:12 +0000

Pianist, rapper and producer Mrisi has performed his unique mix of hip hop, jazz, African, reggae and other genres at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, The Brighton Fringe Festival & all over the UK and South Africa supporting the likes of Omar, Prince Fatty, Don Letts, Rodney P and Rizzle Kicks. I offer rap, poetry, production [...]

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Hello Ambassador – Project 3 Open City Project

Wesley Pepper — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:06:16 +0000

Source: http://www.helloambassador.co.za/ Workshop Summary If we want change we have to make it ourselves. This workshop will explore direct:democracy + citizen:directed design by co-creating through play a cartography of street:art throughout the streets of Newtown. The city:bomb expedition will end in a secret yum:restaurant with a conversation on imagining the future and how we can make [...]

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Banksy: A Question of Art and Utility

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 15:06:11 +0000

Source: http://www.cedricchambers.com/ A Question of Art and Utility The Art of Banksy Art for art’s sake is a slogan translated from the French l’art pour l’art, which was coined in the early 19th century by the French philosopher Victor Cousin. The phrase expresses the belief held by many writers and artists, especially those associated with Aestheticism-that art needs no [...]

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