2016 – ongoing

As an ongoing supporting practice to our work, Counterspace continues to pursue documentation of some of Johannesburg’s most interesting edges, curious of the fascinating rituals and dynamic negotiations of territory, seen in the fleeting plane of the plan-view.

“The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.” – Philippe Petit in Man on Wire (2008)

It is in the fleeting act of precariously straddling a no-man’s land that an awareness of two sides is created. The isolation on each side of the boundary is not understood until one moves through the threshold to a vastly different environment on the other side.

As an ongoing supporting practice to our work, Counterspace continues to pursue documentation of some of Johannesburg’s most interesting edges, curious of the fascinating rituals and dynamic negotiations of territory, seen in the fleeting plane of the plan-view.