Cover: Enikö Gömöri
Who am I? I am Mehita Iqani. I have three i's in my name and two eyes in my face. One I in my heart, and a million in my head. I am the product of my parents, the socio-economics of my upbringing, the injustices of the past. I am my acceptances and refusals, my journeys and waitings, my goals and failures, my inspirers and mentors, my hopes and ideas. I am my friends. I am the spider in the middle of a web called ITCH. I am a place for I's to show and eyes to see. I facilitate some form of visibility.
Mehita Iqani – Editor, Itch
Kenya based writer Karest Lewela talks to Karen Martin about redefining what is African by listening to the past and mapping out the future.
"I hope to inspire a reflection on how we ended up 'here', and whether being here is the right place to be if we are to achieve our best [...]
"I hope to inspire a reflection on how we ended up 'here', and whether being here is the right place to be if we are to achieve our best [...]
July 27, 2010
Heidi Sincuba talks to Karen Martin about seeing herself and being seen, and how rage fired a wide-eyed Zulu girl in the Netherlands to re-appropriate the African in her work.
"As ridiculous as it is to be represented as anonymous and half-naked somewhere in Africa, that has still seeped into [...]
"As ridiculous as it is to be represented as anonymous and half-naked somewhere in Africa, that has still seeped into [...]
July 27, 2010
Los Angeles based artist Martin Gantman talks to Karen Martin about directing his gaze both inward and outward to understand who he is in the globalising world.
"I find that I must always remember to explore my biases when I approach a project and to allow them to evolve as the project [...]
"I find that I must always remember to explore my biases when I approach a project and to allow them to evolve as the project [...]
July 20, 2010
Amsterdam based writer Richard de Nooy talks to
Karen Martin about moving between identities
"The broader relevance of my work lies in using South Africa as a metaphor for exploring the complexities and contradictions of a changing world."
Karen Martin: ITCH describes itself as [...]
"The broader relevance of my work lies in using South Africa as a metaphor for exploring the complexities and contradictions of a changing world."
Karen Martin: ITCH describes itself as [...]
July 17, 2010
Feminist Press (New York) is seeking submissions for a new anthology, titled Globalized Motherhood: a Short Story Collection, edited by Wendy Chavkin.
The books aims to engage with a world in flux about the most intimate of human connections, a world wide open to a host of possibilities for [...]
The books aims to engage with a world in flux about the most intimate of human connections, a world wide open to a host of possibilities for [...]
July 9, 2010
Re: Voyeurism
Eye like this
– Jason Ross