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![the loooong overdue second post
First few images gorgeously captured by Hayden Phillips, offer a glimpse into every story / moment curated by Lukhanyo —
SOULS INTERLUDE Exhibition [4 - 9 December 2025]
An invitation into the rooms, street corners, and improvised stages in which South African jazz was sustained and self-initiated, in spite of the immense threats against it. Drawing on the extraordinary photographs and reel-to-reel recordings of Ian Bruce Huntley, this exhibition offers a rare and intimate account of a musical community that refused erasure and engaged, intuitively, in future-making.
The created installations that revolve around the imagery, sounds and literature reveal a culture held together by deep trust and an uncompromising commitment to creative expression.
Presented by Lukhanyo Mdingi, and drawn from the seminal work Keeping Time by Electric Jive & Chris Albertyn; Souls Interlude is a research project for anyone longing to understand this aspect of South African jazz, music, and memory, and to uncover how art carried futures that the present could not yet hold. Between 1964 and 1974, jazz in South Africa was a genre steeped in collective courage, shared risk, and the sustaining force of community. It was a way of remaining human in a country determined to limit the terms of being human, and the risk embedded in this practice was profound.
Many of the musicians Huntley recorded and photographed were subject to surveillance and harassment. Venues closed without warning; gatherings were policed; interracial collaboration was criminalised. Yet the archive reveals an astonishing continuity of creative momentum; musicians gathered across boundaries the law tried violently to enforce.
The exhibition does not claim to tell the whole story of South African jazz; no single telling could. Instead, it holds a space in which such stories can be experienced, returning us to the rooms in which freedom was rehearsed in secret.
It was an absolute pleasure co-producing this with Lukhanyo, backed by the goldmine dugout by Jason.
Big thank you to all the partners and contributors. by @studiokhaas_](https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/641726767_18063953222661733_881157458205686418_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=100&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiQ0FST1VTRUxfSVRFTS5iZXN0X2ltYWdlX3VybGdlbi5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=W8u_H00SwgcQ7kNvwFMcuPv&_nc_oc=AdoW5tCUJWk8S2BTVJMb3Igc7nnwsNhwboFvgP8plW68Z0C7eziaY_a7khYRoq_oNj3pnfo23VGWFmshmEY-qY6u&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=F42NOHc5EqIu3gCgp-ac-A&_nc_ss=70689&oh=00_AQT8Y2v9aQV2XSgLgpGTPzfayUzSVdQBcIq_2FCGhAPLQQ&oe=6AF06445)
