Shooting The Breeze Live With Mfundo Mkhize (Mr Ekse)
Breeze Yoko in conversation with Mr Ekse Live while they sketch and answer questions from the audience. 

Mfundo Mkhize (Mr. Ëksê) at Goethe Institute
A Soweto-born multidisciplinary artist and graffiti pioneer from Orlando West, Mkhize possesses nearly three decades of practice. Formally trained in photography, printmaking, and multimedia arts, he theorises graffiti as "the most democratic art medium" on the basis of its material accessibility to working-class and marginalised populations. His work transforms the toxic landscapes of Johannesburg's mine dumps into vibrant visual prophecies, employing street art as a mode of preserving community memory of both struggle and triumph. The interview addresses his incremental transformation of Soweto's built environment, the role of fashion in the development of his aesthetic vocabulary and the founding of Sowetoism, and the ways in which these heterogeneous elements intersect and translate into an engagement with the politics of the wall.