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Epic🎉✨ The day has arrived! After years of anticipation, tireless work, and countless contributions from incredible minds, I am thrilled to launch of "Globalisto: A Philosophy in Flux. Acts of an Imbizo" here in the Venice Biennale📚🚀 A heartfelt thank you to every single one who played a part in bringing this vision to life. To my friends who traveled near and far to support, your presence means the world. 🌍💕Merci,thank you!!!!

Gratitude!!!I’m here where I am today because I’m standing on the shoulders of giants. Thank you to my father Dr Mathume Bopape the founder of Mathematic South Africa for the inspiration and the vision. It’s amazing how one can create a word, a word becomes a philosophy, a philosophy becomes an exhibition. A universe that challenges the status quo. Thank you to all these star artists that shine bright with their works and allow us to shine, thank you to the extraordinary philosophers, writers, curators, artists and audiences who came to this Imbizo symposium! this is an impressive historical exhibition that will bring about change. Thank you to MAMC+, one of the best museums in France, with the second biggest collection after the Centre Pompidou. Thank you for the invitation What an epic exhibition!, thank you for these moments, Gratitude, nothing but Gratitude!

If you are at 154 in Marrakesh please join me tonight at a secret Members Club Mizzan 255 Av. Mohammed V Marrakech 40000, Morocco Enter through the restaurant kitchen

We stand here today on the shoulders of giants. We give thanks to our newly ascended ancestor, @madamekoyo Kouoh, whose spirit continues to guide us. It was a profound honour to have been invited to moderate a panel discussion within the context of In Minor Keys, the 61st Venice Biennale, curated by Koyo Kouoh, an extraordinary human being, the first African woman and the first Black woman to be appointed curator of the Biennale. I am deeply grateful to the @aavforum for the invitation to moderate Africa in Minor Keys – Conditions of Visibility, in conversation with @kemangwalehulere , In Minor Keys artist, South Africa; @theawakonate , curator, art consultant, and founder of Culture Art Society, Denmark/Côte d’Ivoire; @beyagillegacha , artist and Cameroon Pavilion curator, France/Cameroon; and @mylesigwe , designer, researcher and curator, US/Nigeria. Grounded in the context of the Biennale’s main exhibition and national pavilions, the conversation reflected on the frameworks that shape visibility. It asked not only who is seen, but how narratives are constructed, histories are written, and meanings are framed. Together, we considered how visibility can open new possibilities, while also questioning the structures it might continue to reinforce. The panel was presented by @strauss_and_co , African Art Dialogues with the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. With gratitude, Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape @mo_laudi Artist, Curator, DJ and Writer South Africa/France . @labiennale #venice #biennale #koyokouoh

Rest in peace @mariamccloy Thank you for your inspiration, your generosity, and your immense contribution to culture. You were an icon, a force whose impact is still being felt! When you turned 50 a while ago, I had wanted to write something to give you your flowers while you were still with us. I wanted to say how much your work meant, and how deeply it shaped so many of us. As a youngster in the 90s, I remember being completely blown away by Rage.co.za. This was long before social media, yet you, Dzino, and Kutloano Skosana found a way to capture and share the essence of South African youth culture: kwaito, hip hop, fashion, language, attitude, and energy. It was unlike anything else. You created a space where we could see ourselves, hear ourselves, and imagine new possibilities. Then came Outrageous Records, with artists like @zubzlastletta , @proverbmusic , and H2O. That label had such an impact. I remember wanting so badly to be part of it, and in many ways, that desire pushed me to create my own path. I also remember wanting to write for Rage, to be close to that world, that movement, and that sense of possibility. Those memories stayed with me for years. I remember meeting your sister, @natashamccloypsychic Natasha, in London in the mid-2000s at a random party, the synergy, the energy… What always stood out about you was how much you shared, and how naturally you connected people. Even recently, while I was curating Afrosonica: Soundscapes at a museum in Switzerland, I was looking for a specific contact to include work in the exhibition. You did not hesitate. There was no gatekeeping, no sense of competition. You simply opened the door and put us in touch. That kind of generosity comes from a rare place. It comes from being comfortable enough within yourself to feel no threat in helping others grow. You understood that culture is not something to be guarded, but something to be circulated, shared, and allowed to flow. The seeds you planted continue to grow. The people you connected continue to connect others. The culture you helped document, continues to ampllify . Condolences to the Mccloy family. Thank you, Maria. Rest in power. #mariamccloy

🤎African In Minor Keys -.Conditions of Visibility @aavforum presented by African Art Dialogues with @smithsonian_africanart

Deep house is South African!!!, my homie Problem Child dropping the most iconic DJ set of 2025, epic to be there 🔥🔥🔥 #deephouse

📺 Join @mo_laudi , May 1, starting at 12 CET, and watch the replay later on the website! ✨ Global sounds, deeper meaning. @mo_laudi turns every performance into a cultural journey—where rhythm meets art and sound meets purpose. 🎶❤️

Omar Ba (Senegal, 1977) Guéno, 2024 Acrylic, ink, oil, pen, typex and pencil on canvas 250 × 150 cm We visited the Mucem museum in Marseille, France, where our painting Guéno, by Omar Ba, is featured in the exhibition Bonnes Mères. Mucem is an amazing museum; it attracted 1.4 million visitors in 2025! Guéno is a supreme deity in the Fulani pantheon. He appears in the Kaïdara, an initiatory tale that recounts the journey of three men on the path to self-knowledge and understanding of the world. Omar Ba was invited to illustrate the Kaïdara, as collected and transcribed by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Inspired by this classic of African literature, Ba created nearly 40 works, of which Guéno is one. Omar Ba’s iconography features personal metaphors, ancestral references, and hybrid figures. This combination of heterogeneous elements illustrates his desire to abolish boundaries and categories. His work, with its enigmatic nature and poetic intensity, rejects all forms of didactic narrative, seeking instead to express his subconscious and his symbolic interpretation of the real. Photo 5: the Kaïdara book Photo 6: Omar Ba and @mo_laudi at Art Basel Paris @omarbastudio #omarba @galerietemplon #galerietemplon @mucem_officiel #Mucem #schultingartcollection #senegalartist africanart africanartist africancontemporaryart

Every club claims to be different. Ibiza. Berlin. Tokyo. Brooklyn. Different dancers. Different rituals. Different rooms. But step into the booth and it becomes familiar very quickly. Same players. Same mixer. Same layout. The same company behind Pioneer DJ and rekordbox, now called AlphaTheta, sitting at the centre of global club infrastructure. The music moves. The booth stays the same. From Johannesburg house rooms to London basements to Paris art spaces, African, diasporic and underground sounds have travelled, been renamed, repackaged and sold back as “global,” “spiritual,” “future-facing.” This is not because technology is the enemy. Those machines are reliable. They changed how DJs travel, prepare and play. They made the USB stick a passport. But standards are never neutral. When one setup becomes the language of the booth, every young DJ has to learn it. Every venue has to buy it. Every promoter expects it. Every rider repeats it. Then access starts to look like inevitability. Dance music is having one of its biggest global moments in decades. Afro house downloads on Splice reportedly grew 778% in one year. Stadium artists are borrowing club energy. Festivals are programming sounds that came from underground rooms long before the industry knew how to sell them. The culture is expanding.

At Milan Design Week 2026, sound becomes architecture literally. Yont Studio’s Brutalist DJ Booth MDW26 Edition is on view at DEORON’s Factory Eleven, a former industrial site on Via Padova 11 reactivated as a cultural space during Fuorisalone. Presented alongside speakers by @new_fidelity_ and mixers by @variainstruments , the installation reframes the DJ booth not as backstage equipment, but as a sculptural object for listening, gathering, and performance. 20–26 April Factory Eleven Via Padova 11, Milan, Italy @yontstudio @deoron @new_fidelity_ @variainstruments #MilanDesignWeek #DEORON YontStudio SoundDesign CollectibleDesign @mo_laudi #soundart

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