1 - ∞ : Aesthetics of time

This thesis explores the multiple times, durations and chronologies of contemporary art. It argues that recent art practices have engaged time as a multiplicitous figure: a phenomenal dimension that takes on a multitude of different forms and significances. Time is both a physical dimension of the universe and a dynamic, fluctuating process of change.

This text is a transcription of a lecture Bourriaud gave during his visit in Israel in December 2012. The lecture was organized by the MFA program of Bezalel Academy of Arts.

Ludovico Pratesi interviews Roman Opalka for Flash Art

“Antiform”, article by Robert Morris for Artforum, 1968, a manifesto for Process Art

The first of Smithson’s major earthworks designed to exist exclusively outside, Asphalt Rundown is a demonstration of what Smithson called the “crystalline structure of time”.

The concept of “becoming” in the work of Giovanni Anselmo

In 1993, in a decision unprecedented in his oeuvre, Kawara transformed One Million Years (Future) from a written to recorded state. The impetus for this metamorphosis was an exhibition for Dia Center for the Arts that ran from January 1, 1993, to December 31 of the same year. The exhibition was comprised of three parts, a selection of one thousand Today paintings, the ten volumes of One Million Years (Past) and the recording of One million Years (Future), in which a male and female voice continuously, year after year, count into the future.

Three curators discuss the art of On Kawara and the exhibition On Kawara—Silence at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, which includes every category of work the artist created between 1963 and 2014.

Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Vo often draws on his own personal experience to investigate larger historical, social or political themes, especially those relating to Vietnam towards the end of the 20th century. In this episode, “Brilliant Ideas” looks at Vo’s signature use of found objects (often rich with emotional or historical significance), and how his life and the lives of his family, friends and other artists are a part of his art.

Article on Jumana Manna’s practice in Frieze, August 18, 2018

Vincenzo de Bellis interviews Rayyane Tabet inside his installation “FAULT LINE” presented at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in 2018

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