Kim M Reynolds

Oftentimes, pain and testimony are appointed as the beacons for meaningful art, art with depth, and art with lessons to teach us. Pain and testimony are also powerful pieces of currency in the art world, which has arguably always been dominated by white fetishised and sensationalist interests.
As a result, there is an over-representation, and over-manufacturing, of pain and testimony, and subsequently, singularity.
In Stromae’s latest album, Multitude is both the beacon and the title.

The United States has a long history of surveillance technology with anti-Black origins Information on how that surveillance is utilized is ambiguous at best.

Photography feature accompanying Tapiwa Guzha feature in the Mail & Guardian

I authored the exhibition text for Luyanda Zindela's (represented by SMAC gallery) solo exhibition at the 2022 Cape Town Art Fair

Published in 2021, I am amongst 25 selected artists out of 500 to be featured in a poetry anthology commissioned and edited by Upile Chisala. Four of my pieces are a part of this anthology.

Woven with Brown Thread is a curated anthology of new poetry and prose by 25 black women and non-binary persons, The Khala Series | 100 Poem Project supported by The Centre for the Less Good Idea, and edited by the poet and storyteller Upile Chisala.

In this op-ed, Kim M Reynolds talks about the history and politics of coloured identity in South Africa and how she navigates it as an american Born Black, light skinned queer woman

Academic and creative essay about the white supremacist nature of extraction, how it shows up in arts practices, and what alternatives offer. Illustrations by Farhana Jacobs.

Reported piece about the exploitative nature of NGOs

Long form feature on Melanie Charles, jazz artist, on her practice and her new EP, Y'all Don't (Really) Care About Black Women.

Feature review of Ziyanda Stuurman's debut book "Can We Be Safe: The Future of Policing in South Africa" online and in print

My review of Stevenson Gallery's latest exhibition, 'my whole body changed into something else' , inclusive of interview with the two Black women curators of the show.

In 2021, my short story, A Good Pair of Glasses, was selected for publication with OutWrite as a part of their journal We Got This: Black Writers on Imagination, Joy & Liberation. The Journal features 5 Black, queer writers.

This project is a poster-bombing, wheat-pasting, stenciling walk around Observatory and Salt River for the annual Infecting the City Festival in Cape Town. Documented as an interactive GIS and video project. This project maps out sites of insurrection and moments of uprising/change/revolution. The walk functions as a kind of cartography as well as a timeline to think through how the city has been bruised or changed or fractured or made more clear through these kinds of moments.

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Long form feature about how sports function as global scripts for imperialism, gender, race and sexualized violence, and nationalism , with a focus on the US and South Africa.