InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Sep 21, 2025ESSAY | In/Visible Catalogue Preface (2024)I was asked to write the catalogue essay for the University of Johannesburg Creative Output exhibition, ‘In/Visible’ in 2024. It’s a group…
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Aug 27, 2025Feature | Form and representation: Exploring the work of Sydney Kumalo and Amalie von MaltitzFor Latitudes, some words on their 2025 Special Project, ESSAY.
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Aug 27, 2025Feature | Field Notes from Cape Town Art WeekFor Daily Maverick (back in March), Field Notes from Cape Town Art Fair, talks, pop-up group exhibitions and more.
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Aug 1, 2024Feature | Encountering fiction in South African works of artFor Latitudes, I wrote a follow-up to my text on encountering art in South African fiction. This text looks at how South African artists…
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Aug 9, 2023Essay | Performance Art’s Impact on the WorldIn early 2023, I was asked to contribute an essay on performance art for Contemporary Lynx Magazine’s ‘Movement’ issue.
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Dec 18, 2022Essay | Unfathomable — an interdisciplinary and collective inquiry into grief and memoryI was invited to view and reflect on the theatre-film version of Unfathomable, screened at the Bioscope in mid 2022. This essay, published…
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Nov 21, 2022Feature | Encountering South African artists in works of fictionFor Latitudes, I wrote about two of my favourite things — South African art and literature — and their generative intersections. SAFM…
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Oct 22, 2022Essay | 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).
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Oct 5, 2022Essay | Constant Translation: The Making of Season 9 of The Centre for the Less Good IdeaA text for The Centre for the Less Good Idea, mapping and contextualising the processes and methodologies that make up its 9th Season…
InDavid MannbyDavid Mann·Jul 16, 2022HOW | Mandla Mbothwe at The Centre for the Less Good IdeaThis text was produced for The Centre for the Less Good Idea’s HOW series. It documents the process and outcome of the immersive…
