Jozi art: A Pile of Stones – How to represent the horror without re-inscribing it?
After seeing ISIS propaganda footage of gay men thrown from rooftops in Syria and Iraq and then publicly stoned, artist Clive van den Berg needed to “make good” these violated lives. In A Pile of Stones, van den Berg exercises this reparative impulse, composing a body of work that protests against the actions of ISIS […]
Malawi court to decide if politician can call for gays to be murdered
A leading Malawian politician will appear in the High Court this week to find out if he should be prosecuted for calling for the killing of gay people. In January last year, Ken Msonda, spokesperson for Malawi’s former ruling People’s Party, wrote on Facebook that arresting gays and lesbians would not work and that “the […]