Photographer

Curator 

Ezra Mokgope was born and raised in Marikana, Northwest Province and completed his undergraduate degree with Honours majoring in Anthropology, Fine Art and International Relations in 2019, completed his Masters in African Studies from the University of Cape Town. He is now living and working in his hometown Rustenburg as a Assistant Director of New Covenant Schools, curriculum curator and anthropology researcher. Ezra is interested in liberatory practice/s, interdisciplinary studies in relation to cultural and socio-political contexts, as well as platforming and showcasing art and artists specifically in South Africa and other parts of the African continent and writing on postcolonial imaginaries. His broader research interests include social practice within arts and culture, and the creation of public spheres and education programs that encourage open access spaces for the creation and reception of creative and alternative interventions and discourse. He is also interested in artistic literary interventions such as Text-Image studies, the history and possibilities of the printed word and the relationship of these concepts to the contemporary manifestation of reading and writing, as well as development of decolonfutures and other creative experimental frameworks. His career vision is to lead projects that entail and engage with the creation and propagation of new institutions (galleries, museums, libraries) of creative arts, using decolonization as a framework and a launching pad to engage the old archive with the desire to birth the new. 

Sethunya Capsule

SS22: On Pedagogy *

SS23: In Theory *