In Search of Space was a series of talks and events exploring the ethos and legacy of the 60s counterculture, its various social and cultural experiments and their legacy. It was programmed to coincide with the exhibition ‘Taking Liberties’ by John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins.

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins and Sue Hall
Took place at the Centre for Contemporary Arts
As part of Document 7, the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
In 1969 the video portapak arrived in Europe and for the next 10 years, Hoppy and Sue Hall used video, mostly black and white, in a variety of situations – on the street, as art and as television, at a time when non-broadcast video was a new, undeveloped creative medium. In 1979, through their company Fantasy Factory, they established the first independent U-matic edit suite for cheap access. This informative talk showed excerpts of their early work demonstrating the social uses of video for community action and development.