Living and working in a city like Athens started to cause me discomfort. I experienced anxiety, disconnection and disorientation. Who or what was intervening with my time?
This prototype explores Byung-Chul Han’s idea of point-time, an atomized time where events occur as separate points lacking duration, narrative, space and scent. Acceleration and stasis of things are viewed as symptoms of this atomization.
Based on this idea, I experimented in Arnhem and Nuremberg with point-time, public space, time in the body, and the relation between temporality of public space and temporality of the body.
Experiment 1 investigates point-time in public space, public space as transitional point, and acceleration.
Experiment 2 looks into breathing as time in the body.
Experiment 3 considers scars and wrinkles as time in the body. I may not think of them constantly; yet my body is marked by them and carries them while walking in the city in search of a bench.
Step one
Take the time to prepare some tea for yourself.
If there is no such possibility for now, please, reschedule.
Step two
Use headphones when watching the videos. For Experiment 2 turn up the volume.
Thank you for your time
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