Artist Stephen Hobbs talking on early experimental video works, in the first of The Bioscope’s collaboration with David Krut Projects.

Hobbs is interested in the visible and constant change within Johannesburg, from the segregated apartheid city, to the run-down post apartheid city and the current aspirations for an African world class city. He views the city as “an African metropolis of perplexing contradictions and unpredictable developments in the social, urban environment.” It is this fascination with the city that led Hobbs to experiment with video as a medium to capture the transient nature of this environment. 54 Storeys (1999), for example, is an experimental film in which Hobbs threw a recording 8mm film camera down the inside of Ponte City, “once a common site for suicides, and consequently the ideal manner in which to visually explore the darkest depths of Joburg’s inner city.”

Please join us for the first talk in the series on Tuesday the 14 September featuring Stephen Hobbs. In an exclusive once-off viewing of the films, Hobbs will take us through his early experimental video work in a narrated presentation on the flux and change of Johannesburg’s inner city.

Tickets cost R 60 pp and booking is essential as seating is limited.
Please R.S.V.P to Taryn Hackett (taryn@davidkrut.com) as soon as possible to secure your seat.