March 30, 2026
March 25, 2026
The CHR would like to thank the publisher, K. Verlag, for their generous donation of Bernard Stiegler’s The Immense Regression - What is Called Caring? Vol. 1. to the CHR and fellows of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture & Technics.
March 6, 2026
FRAYMWURX (2025) is a limited edition zine created as a companion artefact for ‘Tales of History Retold’ (2025), a group exhibition co-curated by Kim Gurney and Carlyn Strydom at Iyatsiba Lab, University of the Western Cape, and is now available in digital form.
March 3, 2026
The CHR would like to thank the publisher, K. Verlag, for their generous donation of Bernard Stiegler’s The Immense Regression - What is Called Caring? Vol. 1. to the CHR and fellows of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture & Technics.
February 9, 2026
There is a double bind to writing about performance art, or live art as it is also called. Generally speaking, live art involves combinations of the body, time and space.
February 2, 2026
You are invited to attend an APES+ talk titled “Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over”, by Premesh Lalu.
November 5, 2025
Lester Kiewit speaks to Promesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources.
October 22, 2025
For this exhibition, eight artists were invited to select artefacts from the document archive of the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), a not-for-profit gallery and collective in Cape Town, as source material for an artistic response.
October 14, 2025
We are delighted to announce that SA/UK Digital Humanities PhD fellow, Siyanda Kobokana, has been selected for the inaugural Paris Doctoral Research Residency at IFAS–Fondation Fiminco–ArTeC.
October 10, 2025
The book launch for Drafts in Action will take place on 13 October 2025 at ESPACE Diaphanes in Berlin.
October 10, 2025
We are delighted to announce that Undoing Apartheid by Premesh Lalu has been translated into Turkish and published by Afrika Vakfi Yayinevi. See below for more information about Undoing Apartheid and its Turkish translation, Apartheid’ı Ortadan Kaldırmak.
August 5, 2025
Kim Gurney will be giving an online keynote on Wednesday 5 August, for ‘Residency Re-sourced’, a collaborative project run by Goethe-Institut Nigeria.