After winning a big competition last year Ruth Sacks jetted off to the Canary Islands, then not long afterwards Paris. She talks to Sean O'Toole about her next big stopover: the Venice Biennale. Ruth Sacks is Art South Africa's sixth Bright Young Thing for 2007

Pierre Fouché engages in part with issues of sexuality but does not want his work labelled for any specific audience, writes Kim Gurney. Pierre Fouché is Art South Africa's fifth Bright Young Thing for 2007

Lawrence Lemaoana's embroidered rugby balls and fantastical photomontages offer more than just ironic comments on the white man's sport. By Sean O'Toole. Lawrence Lemaoana is Art South Africa's fourth Bright Young Thing for 2007

In the first of a series of artist-to-artist exchanges, Johan Thom interviews Willem Boshoff. The pairing is appropriate. Boshoff, with his long-term insight and perspective, not to mention his knack for verbal tomfoolery, is the perfect foil to Thom, a young performance artist still working in relative obscurity. The central issue of their discussion: ferreting out the nuances of talk around cutting-edge art practice

Artist Nicholas Hlobo has staged two performances wearing a customized outfit that references a Xhosa choral song about a dung beetle and alludes to sacred rites of passage. We asked this year's Tollman Award winner to explain the motivations behind his performance work

Earlier this year Durban-based Mlungisi Zondi won the 2006 MTN new contemporaries award for a performance piece titled silhouette. Here he discusses his evolution as a dancer, conceptual choreographer and performance artist

Born and raised in South Africa, Roselee Goldberg is a pioneering figure in the international study of performance/live art – her 1979 book performance: live art 1909 to the present remains a pivotal text. Kathryn Smith spoke to the New York-based critic, curator and scholar

The carefully designed futuristic drawings and collages of Wangechi Mutu, who recently exhibited in Cape Town, have earned the Kenyan-born artist a cult following internationally. By Tracy Murinik

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Kathrin Smith is the 2004 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year. In an Interview, Maureen de Jager questions Smith about her interdisciplinary methodology, following which she offers a reading of the artist's nationally touring show Euphemism

The photographer Jo Ractliffe has often been criticised for producing "boring" and "difficult" images, her studies of the land dismissed as "blandscapes". Rory Bester offers a timely re-evaluation of her earlier, black and white output

Tracey Rose's latest project, titled Lucie's Fur Version 1:1:1, is nothing less than a sweeping investigation of myths surrounding the origins of humanity, revisiting, interrelating and subverting Christian dogma, traditional storytelling and scientific theories of evolution. The artist known for enacting fictional personas revealed something of her own world view to Tracy Murinik over strawberry juice and cocktail Russian Sobranies

William Kentridge enjoys international acclaim above any other South African artist, and is the subject of a major travelling exhibition now at the National Gallery. Yet his work precisely resists the desire for closure and fixity implied by the 'retrospective', argues Ashraf Jamal, who also interrogates the reasons for the artist's success in the West