Art & Photography/2013/18 min/Reel № 13.001
ByNicholas Hlobo
Nicholas Hlobo on understanding his own culture
The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013
A close reading, kept within reach.
Nicholas Hlobo takes art & photography as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2013, the conversation is grounded in Nicholas's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Nicholas Hlobo explores, through sound and images, the construction of his own sense of understanding about the self, one’s country, family, culture and more.
About the speaker
Nicholas Hlobo
Johannesburg/South Africa
Nicholas Hlobo is a South African artist, fast gaining an international reputation for his experimental use of materials.
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