This collaborative and contemplative Long Minute is by visual artist Robyn Penn, and session musician Waldo Alexander, both of whom live and work in Johannesburg.

“My work has always involved an immersion in nature, a sense of awe and the sublime and a preoccupation with the nature of time. I grew up, and have lived most of my adult life, in Johannesburg where the sublime arrives in the form of cloud formations that pile up daily. Change is ubiquitous as evidenced in this natural process of transformation and dissolution. Time (as Aristotle suggested) is the measurement of change, not of being, but of becoming, made up of events, processes, chaos and entropy.

In ‘Floating World’ I wanted to diarise my everyday and the transience of each passing moment. I live in my childhood home on a hill above a vast veld with a view of the city and the extensive highveld sky. I then discussed the piece with violinist Waldo Alexander and asked if he would respond to my film. The orchestration is as mesmerizing as the clouds. The quiet slow, haunting pace is beautifully contrasted by the swift, turbulent motion of the clouds,” - Robyn Penn

Concept & Creation | Robyn Penn
Musician | Waldo Alexander
Curator of The Long Minute | Bronwyn Lace