Archive: ARRÊTÉ – The conception of time
The notion of time, that means its organization by a calendar and the clock into measurable units was originally conceived to provide general orientation only. However in the meantime it has mutated in our life to a dominant factor and is today considered a precious personal good.
Time accompanies us throughout life, follows us, sometimes overtaking us.
Hence the fundamental question is the following: Do we dominate the time or are we dominated by it?
In the exhibition the artists approach in totally different ways the concept of time, duration and the various dimensions of time, interrupt and interchange these phenomena. They accelerate procedures, imposing intervals or synchronizing past and present events, thus undermining the established social rules from one time to another, in short: a tentative to stop once for a short while the time.
Curated by: Ruth Horak
Further Performances by Kozek Hörlonski, The Hanging Gardens – Still. Contemporary:
On the 02, 06, and 07 of December at 02.00pm
