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6:00 PM

Textures of Time

Exhibition / Sound Art Installation|A sound-based exhibition exploring Johannesburg’s temporalities through listening, field recordings, sound and video installation.

  • Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Johannesburg

  • English
  • Free

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Textures of Time is an exhibition exploring how sound reveals layered temporalities within Johannesburg’s urban environment. Bringing together the sound works and video work of the Johannesburg-based sound collective Playgroup, exhibition foregrounds listening as an artistic and research practice. Through field recordings, and sonic interventions in the city, the works invite audiences to engage with the city’s everyday atmospheres. The exhibition positions sound as a method for sensing social relations, spatial memory, and urban transformation.

Bios

  • Jill Richards is a South African pianist working primarily in Johannesburg and Europe. Her musical interests range from contemporary classical music and free improvisation, as well as the standard piano repertoire. 

    An important part of Jill’s work is collaborating with artists from a wide range of disciplines - music, visual art, video, dance, theatre and poetry. Collaborators include Kevin Volans, William Kentridge, Francisco Lopez, Sudeep Sen, Marcus Neustetter and Dorothee Kreuzfeldt. 

    She is also  part of the Johannesburg-based collective Playgroup, with Jurgen Meekel and BJ Engelbrecht Playgroup is a Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary art collective whose main creative and theoretical interest is in the city space, with a particular focus on how it is experienced through sound. Jill has released seven CDs, including three of the music of Kevin Volans, who has dedicated a number of works to her. 

    Jill Richards is a Steinway Artist.

  • Jurgen Meekel (1963, Amsterdam) is an awarded audiovisual artist, filmmaker, and designer who studied Audiovisual Art at the Rietveld Academy after training in graphic design. His multidisciplinary work spans installation art, sculpture, animation, cinematography, post-production, VFX, and sound art. Recent projects include AV projection designs for theatre productions. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work acquired by the Utrecht Central Museum for Modern Art. He teaches Film & TV at the Wits  School of Arts, where he earned his MA in Fine Arts (2018). His practice explores intersections of science and art through moving image and sonic landscapes.

  • BJ Engelbrecht is a Johannesburg-based artist and researcher whose main creative and theoretical interest is in sound and its relationship to time and space, particularly within the dynamic urban environment. He completed my Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in fine art at the University of the Witwatersrand focusing specifically on sound installation for which I won the Martienssen prize.