Infinite Delay (or spending time in the present)
Andrew Atchison, Julie Forster, Josephine Mead, Lyndal May Stewart, Makiko Yamamoto
Curated by Julia Powles
The present has been described by cultural theorist Boris Groys as a time of delay; a performative, in-between space of recurrent actions that appear to lead no-where in particular. Time in the present therefore runs the risk of becoming lost-time, time spent enacting rituals of daily life that perpetuate our contemporary inability to commit to the longer-term. For Groys this notion of the present can be metaphorically situated in the contemporary video-loop, a device that allows us to enter and depart the narrative randomly at any point, checking in and out, as it were, without any sense of incongruity.
Using the idea of a looped encounter with time and epoch, this exhibition questions the possibility that today the present exists for us as a series of overlapping, individualised temporalities, marked by nothing so much as it’s own reflexivity. Each of the artists included in the exhibition Infinite delay (or spending time in the present) have explored ideas around how we encounter time, place and self as both an immediacy and a reverberation.
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Andrew Atchison, Julie Forster, Josephine Mead, Lyndal May Stewart, Makiko Yamamoto
Curated by Julia Powles
The present has been described by cultural theorist Boris Groys as a time of delay; a performative, in-between space of recurrent actions that appear to lead no-where in particular. Time in the present therefore runs the risk of becoming lost-time, time spent enacting rituals of daily life that perpetuate our contemporary inability to commit to the longer-term. For Groys this notion of the present can be metaphorically situated in the contemporary video-loop, a device that allows us to enter and depart the narrative randomly at any point, checking in and out, as it were, without any sense of incongruity.
Using the idea of a looped encounter with time and epoch, this exhibition questions the possibility that today the present exists for us as a series of overlapping, individualised temporalities, marked by nothing so much as it’s own reflexivity. Each of the artists included in the exhibition Infinite delay (or spending time in the present) have explored ideas around how we encounter time, place and self as both an immediacy and a reverberation.
Read the exhibition essay
Image: Josephine Mead, If you hold up for me I'll try to hold up for you too, 2014
8 - 30 May 2015
Opening: Friday 8 May, 6-8pm
Kings Artist Run
Lvl 1 / 171 King Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Australia
Opening Hours:
Wed – Sat, 12-6pmOpening: Friday 8 May, 6-8pm
Image: Josephine Mead, If you hold up for me I'll try to hold up for you too, 2014
Kings Artist Run
Lvl 1 / 171 King Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Australia
Opening Hours:
Wed – Sat, 12-6pm
8 - 30 May 2015
Opening: Friday 8 May, 6-8pm
Kings Artist Run
Lvl 1 / 171 King Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Australia
Opening Hours:
Wed – Sat, 12-6pmOpening: Friday 8 May, 6-8pm
Image: Josephine Mead, If you hold up for me I'll try to hold up for you too, 2014
Kings Artist Run
Lvl 1 / 171 King Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Australia
Opening Hours:
Wed – Sat, 12-6pm