ABOUT
Art and Photography
Emma and Rudolph regularly exhibit work during the annual Solo Studios event in the Riebeek Valley. Occasionally, the exhibitions have been collaborative. Emma has exhibited with artist Jenny Parsons. In 2022 Emma and Rudolph had a joint exhibition (curated by Elizabeth Miller Vermeulen)) with the title Points of Departure.
Music
Hoofstraat Conceptual has hosted performances by accoustic, jazz and world guitarists and musicians Steve Newman, Tony Cox, Derek Gripper, Nibs van der Spuy, Guy Buttery, Albert Frost, Dave Reynolds and Pops Mohammed. It has also hosted collaborative performances by Nibs van der Spuy and Yasamin Hosseini, Nibs van der Spuy and Guy Buttery, Guy Buttery and Kanada Narahadi and Guy Buttery and Derek Gripper. It has also hosted New Music performances in collaboration with Michael Blake which included the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Duo Infinite, [X]iksa, the Purpur Festival and the Sterkfontein Composers' Meeting.
Poetry
Hoofstraat Conceptual hosted readings of Rudolph's work by Marcel van Heerden and friends, a performance by Toast Coetzer's Buckfever Underground, a performance by Gert Vlok Nel and a reading by Kobus Moolman (with David Wickham on sound objects).
Image: The stone boat and its floor, 2016, Emma Willemse