South Africa’s FAKA is a performance art duo, or as they call it a cultural movement, based in Johannesburg consisting of Fela Gucci (Thato Ramaisa) and Desire Marea (Buyani Duma). They have graduated from visual communication and photography. Theirs work explores (mainly through theirs bodies, performance and fashion) the role and position of the queer […]
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&: Anita, how often do you smoke weed and what do you get from it? Does it connect to your work in any way? A: Hey, I like to smoke, sometimes every day. Even because of the Universe. Things often shift when you’re drunk or stoned, so you can then gather the courage or an […]
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ETERNITY ESCAPE OBSESSION is an artwork prepared specifically for the ScreenSaverGallery by Czech artist Anita Somrová (in collaboration with Jiří Topinka). Somrová’s works are usually very impressive. One of the reasons for this may be that she openly works in purely visual way with kitsch, pop-culture cliches and internet aesthetics. We can also notice some kind of very specific […]
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