25/10/2025
As part of Design Week South Africa’s programme of city-wide events
and design experiences, we invite you to join us at our Cape Town showroom.
The final day of Ari’s Listening Room in Cape Town – a three-day series curated by Andile Buka in association with Bang & Olufsen .southafrica and Krone .world
*Today’s Listening Experience*
Lindokuhle Nkosi (Spinnie Ripperton): 11:00–13:00
Lindokuhle Nkosi is a South African writer and interdisciplinary practitioner whose textual interventions often extend beyond the page, merging with installation and performance to explore the spatial, material, and performative dimensions of language. The Founding Editor of the first dedicated arts pages on South Africa’s largest mainstream news platform, Nkosi has contributed to a wide range of local and international publications. Her expansive body of work and curatorial practice — traversing journalistic, reflective, and experimental modes of writing – is marked by a sensitivity to texture, both linguistic and material, and an engagement with lived realities.
“Poetry, first of all, was and still must be a musical form. It is speech musicked.” – Amiri Baraka
This session listens for the places where lyric meets rhythm, where the beat completes the sentence, where voice becomes drum. It celebrates the songwriter as theorist and conjurer – the one who translates emotion into metre, who turns memory into melody, who understands that composition is also cosmology.
*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE*. Register to attend the session by navigating to Ari’s Listening Room via the link in our bio.
