Bubblegum Club

28/11/2025

We wanted to see what would happen if we created a fashion editorial using only the Galaxy A56 and its AI features. No studio. No lighting setup. No photographer. Just the phone.

Using Circle to Search, Object Eraser and Best Face, we explored how the A56’s Awesome Intelligence features can simulate traditional studio portraiture — decentralised and in your pocket.

https://bubblegumclub.org/articles/dematerialising-the-studio-fashion-image-making-with-awesome-intelligence

Paid partnership with Samsung

At Bubblegum Club, we’re always looking for ways to stretch, remix, and rethink the tools we use to create images — and to question the structures that define where creativity is “supposed” to happen. When we received the Samsung Galaxy A56, we were interested not only in testing its capabil...

25/11/2025

Positioned between fashion’s waste economies and the possibilities of material reinvention, this piece reflects on how Dominique Lanz’s textile sculptures challenge hierarchies, disrupt narratives of value, and reimagine the futures of fashion’s debris.

Full article on our website

17/11/2025

Geneva-based curators Danniel Tostes and Lari Medawar used their 2025 residency at FMAC Genève to explore how institutional collections can be reactivated through care, collaboration, and inclusion.

Rooted in their intersecting trajectories — from Rio de Janeiro’s institutional art world to Geneva’s independent and activist scenes — their work unfolds across archives, studios, and exhibition spaces, bringing together artists from within and beyond the FMAC collection to imagine new narratives and possible futures.

Written by: Jamal Nxedlana ()

Full story on: Bubblegum Club website

12/11/2025

We’re pleased to share that Bubblegum Club has been commissioned by FMAC Genève to create a short documentary capturing the 2025 curatorial residency of Danniel Tostes and Lari Medawar at FMAC.

The film follows their journey — from research in the archives and studio visits to the conception and installation of their two exhibitions, VISIBLE and VISIONS — and reflects on the collaborative processes that shaped these projects.

The documentary (12 min) will be screened for the first time tomorrow, Thursday 13 November, at FMAC as part of La Nuit des Bains (Geneva’s Gallery Night).

🕕 18h – Exhibition tours with FMAC mediators and art historians
🎬 19h – Documentary screening followed by a presentation by Jamal Nxedlana and Camille Kaiser, who will introduce Bubblegum Club and share insights into our work.

Following Danniel and Lari through this journey has been an incredible experience — inspiring, generous, and full of thoughtful exchanges with the artists and collaborators involved.

📍FMAC Genève

04/11/2025

Between sand and cement, memory and architecture — Monika Emmanuelle Kazi () reminds us that the past isn’t fixed and the future isn’t prescribed. In her process of disappearing-and-returning, she frees fate from its constraints and invites us to reimagine what home, time and agency can feel like.

-Written by: Sophie Florence Mullins-Poole ()

Full story on: Bubblegum Club website (link in bio)
📸: Image by Monika Emmanuelle Kazi

31/10/2025

We’re excited to share the launch of our redesigned website — a reflection of Bubblegum Club’s evolution as a cultural platform.

Now operating between Johannesburg and Geneva, and transitioning from a for-profit company to a non-profit association, this new chapter is guided by a deeper commitment to supporting cultural production rooted in artistic integrity, and long-term impact.

The redesign, led by (design), .xolo and Ian Owira (development), introduces a more minimal and intuitive interface. While we continue to spotlight emerging creative practitioners, our focus is shifting toward project-based initiatives across publishing, curation, residencies, and events.

Visit the new site: link in bio

09/10/2025

When we first launched Glitching the Future with , it came from a shared belief that digital systems — especially those shaped by Big Tech — are far from neutral. The project reimagines these systems through Afrofuturist and Afrofeminist lenses that challenge exclusionary technologies and propose more inclusive, ethical futures.

This next chapter continues that work at , where sound and speculative practice take centre stage.

At this year’s Fak’ugesi Digital Innovation Festival, we’ll present “Speculative Feasibilities” — a live symposium connecting audiences in Johannesburg and the Netherlands through sound, performance, and dialogue.

Moderated by Heidi Thembeka Sincuba, the panel brings together artists and thinkers including Lindiwe Mngxitama and Natalie Paneng, alongside P_ssy Party, who will present a live demonstration tracing South Africa’s glitched relationship between DJ culture, sound technology, and resistance.

🗓 Saturday, 11 October 2025
📍 Fak’ugesi Festival, Johannesburg
⏰ 14:30 – 16:00 (SAST)

10/09/2025

Mahmoud Khattab’s new book The Dog Sat Where We Parted is a photographic and poetic account of his time in service, as a soldier and army doctor. Over the year of conscription he had to deal with what it meant to lose the markers of individuality and the expectation to release one’s own will. He said to me, “it’s a gun that you are asked to carry, but it’s not ours”; ‘it is not my gun’.

-Written by: Sophie Florence Mullins-Poole ()

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bubblegum’s website I 📸: Image by Mahmoud Khattab

06/08/2025

Le Treize Est Magique was a spectacular creative response to the dominant narratives around football, bringing energy, passion, community and expression to a space that is frequently ignored or not afforded the same energy and cult that men’s football does.

-Written by: Sophie Florence Mullins-Poole ()

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bubblegum’s website I 📸: Image

04/08/2025

An update from Glitching the Future 🛰️

Get a full overview of the project so far — the ideas, the people behind them, and how creativity is challenging the digital status quo.Read the article and explore the full project

-Written by:Nabeela Karim ()

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bubblegum’s website I 📸: Image courtesy of Glitching the Future

01/08/2025

“This initiative positions glitches as a rare source of spectacular repair, challenging the boundaries between control, error and creativity. This first iteration rejects techno-universalism, positioning African cultural production as a catalyst for liberatory tech futures.”

The Glitch continues💥
Carry on interacting with our website and contributing to the glitch!

https://www.glitchingthefuture.org

25/07/2025

interprets amapiano not just as sound but as political language. Her framing of the genre as a living archive of protest, style, and Black expression speaks to glitch as cultural code—decentralised, resistant, and rooted in collective memory.

Check out her essay via our website: https://www.glitchingthefuture.org/contributions/bana-ba-strata