Hours, minutes,
seconds. This is how time elapses. It is almost always perceived in different
ways both objectively and subjectively. In terms of philosophy time could be defined as
the irreversibility of succession which allows experience. In terms of psychology time means
the passing of the present into the past and of an expected future into the present as
experienced by human consciousness though in different persons.
It was film through which speed entered the pictures and radically
changed our perception. The pictures learned to move, in the beginning very slowly, then increasingly fast until
they finally threatened to overtake themselves. And it seems to be film of all media by which
artists today, in the time of an unlimited flood of pictures, try to stop the speeding up of
pictures and to prepare the "end of speed". As heralds of a need which is perhaps the need of
society as a whole, they cut down speed to real time for the actual time of "life out
there"(Boris Groys).
They discover slowness and arouse a new awareness for the time which time needs in order
to pass or to march on. How long is a second, how long is a minute, how long can an hour
be? The experience is connected to that of waiting as a basic existential experience of man,
waiting for something to happen.
The exhibition at Kunstraum Innsbruck assembles artistic and filmic
contributions, film and video material which make us aware of this feeling and perception of time and at the same
time asks us to spend time - if one really wants to watch all the exhibited works in full
length, one has to spend more than a whole day. Yet since time is one of the most precious
resources of our modern life, viewers will hardly have enough time to do so. Hence the exhibition
intentionally exceeds the time one normally spends in galleries and at the same time
emphasizes the artists concern of gaining an expansion of time for art which it usually
and in its classical forms does not have.
Artists: Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Pia Greschner, Derek
Jarman, Joachim Koester, Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij, Beat
Streuli, Rosemarie Trockel, Fred
Zinnemann
Curator: Udo Kittelmann |
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An exhibition
by Kunstraum Innsbruck in cooperation with Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.
The exhibition was sponsored by:
Tiroler Sparkasse, Wulz AV Center Tirol, Pro Helvetia, DCA - Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Bundeskanzleramt - Sektion
Kunst, Stadt Innsbruck, SFB und SFB Werbung, Berlin, Taurus Film GmbH, Edition
Salzgeber
In cooperation with cinematograph-leokino
h:min:sec - cinema-program: http://www.tirolkultur.at/cinema |
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