Ari's Listening Room: Spinnie Ripperton

​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 practices, which traverses journalistic, reflective, and experimental modes of writing, are 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 Baracka