That Which Has Not Happened Yet

Imagine the city of Johannesburg in South Africa were to be swallowed up by a black hole. How does such speculative thinking open up considering urban futurisms that challenge cultural, geographical and historical preconceptions? How are notions of futurity challenged by interrupting quantitative time and linear timelines? How do the significance of Johannesburg’s entangled apartheid past and capitalist futures change completely? What happens to people’s identity when a place they are so attached to becomes unavailable? These are some of the questions raised by pre-historian Jessica Jones in a lecture performance augmented with manipulated archival visuals of her beloved hometown.