ARTJan 14
«Realistically, no one can watch the whole of «24 Hour Psycho», which consists of Alfred Hitchcock’s film «Psycho» (1960) slowed down so that a single, continuous viewing lasts for twenty-four hours. While we can experience narrative elements in it (largely through familiarity with the original), the crushing slowness of their unfolding constantly undercuts our expectations, even as it ratchets up the idea of suspense to a level approaching absurdity.»
(source: Russell Ferguson, «Trust Me,» in: Douglas Gordon, Cambridge/MA, 2001, p. 16.)
Account of the artist’s statement «He [Douglas Gordon] went on to imagine that this ‹someone› might suddenly remember what they had seen earlier that day, later that night; perhaps at around 10 o’clock, ordering drinks in a crowded bar with friends, or somewhere else...
MusicJan 11
TIME IS MY EVERYTHING- Ian Brownmany moons have passed
since our paths last crossed
did you maybe lose your way?
'cause time is my everything
time is my everything
for you i'd do anything
under the sun...
TIME- Pink Floyd
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain...
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Share your references for TIMEJan 08
Books, films, songs, quotes...- "Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases" Cees Noteboom
- "Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why is it that as we grow older time seems to condense, speed up, elude us while in old age significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real as what happened yesterday?" Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older- Douwe Draaisma
-"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." Buckaroo Banzai (Chelsea Spear-Boston)
-"Does time itself reveal itself as the horizon of being". Being and Time by Martin Hiedegger. (Aysegul Eubanks- Istanbul)- "A manifesto for time and against clocks, a polemic against the dreary, playless, time of modernity, and an exploration of how indigenous cultures see time..." Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths
"When a man is asleep, he has circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years order of the heavenly host. When he awakes, he looks to these, and in an instant reads off his own position on the earth's surface and the time that has elapsed his slumbers; but ordered procession is apt to grow confused and to break its ranks. " Remembrance of Things Past- Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
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It’s timeNov 23
Time stands still. Time passes. Time defines the balance humanity seeks to establish in modern life. Since the very rejection of time by primitive societies its concept has dramatically changed. Today our concepts of time play an important role in shaping the way in which we live our lives. Our search to understand human existence and the way we perceive the world around us still remains an impenetrable equation. Is this concept of time which we are seeking to define only something dreamt up by humankind? Is it in fact real? Or does it even exist at all?
Philosophers agree that a concept of time is the method of comparing one moment with another, a process that is perhaps nothing more than perception. Without a doubt the perceptions of every mind are unique and they create an entirely different understanding of time. Art by Chance 2010 has set out to explore how the perception of time is unique to every individual and how time can influence the narrative of city life, one of modern man’s greatest challenges.
Films touching the untouchable theme of time in their own time. It’s time to move!
