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E-book Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice
Questions of time and concepts of temporality have increasingly been moving into the focus of current research. A broad timeframe is covered in the publication Temporalität in Kunst und Kunsttheorie seit 1800 [Temporality in Art and Art Theory since 1800], ed-ited by Thomas Kisser in 2011. It reflects and discusses the problem of time in images across epochs – by analysing the role of time in the visual concepts of Titian, Rembrandt, Watteau and Friedrich, by discussing the phenomena of disintegrating and compressed time around 1800, or for instance, by reviewing forms of time in photographs and modern cinema. The issue of presence and materiality is also the focus of an anthology edited by Juliane Engel, Mareike Gebhardt, and Kay Kirchmann in 2019, Zeitlichkeit und Material-ität. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Theorien und Phänomene der Präsenz [Temporality and Materiality. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theories and Phenomena of Presence]. The publication conceptualises manifestations of temporality and materiality in terms of a cultural and socio-scientific empiricism and theory formation, and approaches these issues from different perspectives. In her recent book Art, History, and Anachronic Inter-ventions since 1990, Eva Kernbauer proposes a detailed study of the aspect of the contem-porary artistic practice’s contribution to the discussion and conceptualisation of history. Kernbauer argues, but also puts up for discussion, that analytical instruments of anachro-nism like (para)fiction, contrafactual history, testimonies, ghosts and spectres of the past, utopia, and the ‘juridification’ of history allow for a form of knowledge production that not only contributes to creating a historical awareness, but generates spaces for political action.The list of quoted publications could continue, but it would be a fairly long one, for the subject of the nature and conception of temporality is ultimately at all times a topical one. The present anthology links up to previous and current research. Its aim is to concentrate on ideas of temporality in artistic, architectural, and filmic practice in order to understand, first, how the artistically articulated idea forms the temporal refugium by being articulated, but by doing so also de-constructs the current patterns of temporality within society and proposes ‘alternative’ concepts of temporality.Considering one agrees that the currently dominant means of representing social, and thus also temporal, references to reality ostensibly come in the form of graphs, tables, and algorithms, which forms of temporality are then accentuated, and which are missing? Reflecting on time, but also conceptualising and presenting alternative conceptions of temporalities reopens the option of the fictitious, the possible, and the imaginable. This option, however, also offers another window, precisely the one which allows one to put our own ideas and wishes into play. The ‘different’ dramaturgies of the temporal reveal the various intensities and rhythms which the body, materiality, and situation-dependent experiences are enmeshed in.
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