2011
Hobbs/Neustetter Depth Threats
Catalogue Text October 2010
Ancient unwritten Norwegian; laws protecting free public access to sea and sky and such topographical features as ‘woods, fields, mountains, rivers, lakes and skerries, irrespective of who owns them’, comes across as utopian fantasy to Johannesburg, city-bound cultural producers Hobbs/Neustetter, and resultantly presents a challenge to the duo to develop a project that interrogates and intervenes, through an experiential approach to this notion of public rights and freedom to traverse land and sea.
Hobbs/Neustetter’s approach was developed in two parts, the first involving navigating and camping on a number of islands in the Austevoll region – south west of Bergen and the second part, a translation of this experience into the gallery space of Stieftelsen, 314, Bergen. Read more…
2011
Hobbs/Neustetter is working in collaboration with a group of 10 artists from Alexandra and 6 partner artists from Zimbabwe and Mozambique on an experimental intervention that looks at questions of xenophobia, border-crossing and contextual value systems.
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2011
April 6th – Ruined Site of the former Theatre – St Pierre – Trinity Session performance
April 7th – Fort de France – public space – Trinity session projection / performance
The small town of St Pierre on the West coast of Martinique, bears an ever present history of the devastation of the town following major eruptions of Mount Pelee, in the early 1900’s. The intermingling of ghost structures and building ruins, with the contemporary town, is a constant reminder of the ever tenuous relationship between the thrusts of modernity and the forces of nature. Read more…
2011
Mixed media installation, Moses Mabida Stadium, Durban
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2010
http://www.youtube.com/hobbsneustetter
ENTRACTE is a post-performace film recorded during the AFROPIXEL FESTIVAL MAY 2010, DAKAR (SENEGAL) by Hobbs/Neustettter
Located in Zone A, Sicap, Maison 46 – standing for 10 years, is destined for demolition to make way for a new development. In collaboration with students from the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Dakar, a series of projection and performance scenes were developed as a reflection on the pathetic state of this building and the expectations of a new architecture to come. Read more…
2009
'hands' by Mlungisi Mzingi
The City of Johannesburg through its implementing agent, The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), has identified the VILAKAZI STREET PRECINCT (VSP) as a potentially important cultural, heritage and economic node. As such the short-term objective for the project is to stabilise, consolidate and improve the heritage assets in the Orlando area while the long-term objective aims to put in place a sustainable management model for the precinct. The scope of work for the current fiscal year will be the development of a detailed upgrade design framework with a focus on upgrade interventions and the implementation of immediate catalytic interventions that would initiate the development process. It is felt that long-term interventions could provide leverage for private and public sector investment into the area.
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