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Art as a time machine

FABULA – Research in literature. Online Seminars

What is literary and/or artistic time? What is time in literature and the arts? Or what is time for a writer, a painter, a photographer, a director?
The first difficulty encountered by those who wonder about time as it is practised and as literature and the arts represent it is that of formulating the question that occupies them: how, in what terms, does the problem of time in literature and the arts arise? Is time, in the literary and artistic context, a concept, a notion, a percept? Is time, for writers and artists, a theme, a motif, a tool, a medium?
Perhaps the most relevant and effective method is to consider the answer given by the artists before formulating the question(s) we would like to ask them. In any case, this is the choice made by the researchers who met for the symposium L’art, machine à voyager dans le temps (University of Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, 22-25 March 2017). Rather than a concept or a notion, it is consequently a singular posture, that of the time traveller, and the creative and lectoral uses that it engenders that are at the heart of the studies gathered here.

The scientific construction of time
Véronique Le Ru

From temporal emotion to cinema: Interstellar by Christopher Nolan
Guillaume Gomot

Back to the Future / Peggy Sue Got Married: A Cinematic Journey through Time
Kostulla Kaloudi

Showing Time. The Dadaist experience of the time in immediate post-war Berlin
Aurélie Arena

Artistic journeys in the temporalities of the “cinematographic works” of Pierre Huyghe and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Marie-Laure Delaporte

The painters, strategists of the time
Frédéric Montégu

The aesthetics of the time machine
Elisabeth Stojanov

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Everybody’s Time – Arman

Source: Paris La Douce

Photo: Caroline Hauer

Everybody’s Time is a work by Arman installed on the square in front of the Gare Saint Lazare in Paris since 1985. Meeting points, landmarks, this monumental sculpture, in keeping with the architecture, responds to the principle of accumulation dear to the artist in the lineage of the duchampian ready-made. The visual artist Arman, taking up the theme of travel in a metaphorical form, chose to treat the representation of daily life in an allegorical and grandiose way, following the example of the heroic lives of characters from mythology. Apart from the obvious beauty of the elements, Everybody’s Time refers by its form and treatment to the idea of classical statuary.

Photo: Caroline Hauer
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The PLATEFORM 10 arcades – Prefiguration Musée de l’Elysée and mudac

Article on the Plateform 10 website

After a residency at the Musée de l’Elysée and the mudac, the INT studio presents the collections of both museums through kinetic, immersive and participative installations in the Arcades. Thus, before moving in in the fall of 2021, both museums are present on the site and lead us to experiment their collections in a new way.

“LCD (LUMINA, CHROMA, DATA): Enter the color! How to navigate simultaneously through the collections of the Musée de l’Elysée and the Mudac while giving meaning to the search? LCD proposes to go beyond the traditional search by keywords, dates or authors by means of linking the photographic and design works of the two museums through colour.
A selection of around 500 objects from the mudac and the Musée de l’Elysée were analysed by software to determine the value (RGB) of each pixel. The algorithm creates a colour chart specific to each work. It then places them on a grid projected on the wall. Using a controller, the visitor is invited to choose a position in the colour spectrum (X axis) and saturation (Y axis). The two objects closest to the chosen colour are displayed on the main screens.
The sculpture highlights the database query. The chromatic circle suspended in the centre and the mechanics come to life to illustrate the path taken to access the chosen colour. By immersion, the visitor finds himself immersed in the collections of the mudac and the Musée de l’Elysée.

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Searching for the time that remains

How, from contemporary art to cinema to photography, artists immortalize the passing of time. Article on Slate.fr

Chrono Shredder (2007) by Susanna Hertrich. She has imagined a device, both calendar and clock, which undergoes an impulse every 3 minutes, gradually destroying the present day to display the new one, condemned to the same treatment. The destroyed days pile up at the bottom of the structure, symbolizing the passage of time and the impossibility of going back (the irrecoverable aspect of shredded paper).
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Femke Herregraven

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Femke Herregraven investigates which material base, geographies, and value systems are carved out by financial technologies and infrastructures. Her work focuses on the effects of abstract value systems on historiography and individual lives. This research is the basis for the conception of new characters, stories, objects, sculptures, sound and mixed-media installations. Her current work focuses on the financialization of the future as a ‘catastrophe’ and uses language, the voice and the respiratory system to examine these monetized speculative catastrophes within our social, biological and technological ecosystems.
She taught at Artez Arnhem and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2017–2018). In 2016, she collaborated with Dutch investigative journalist on the Panama Papers. She is currently part of On-Trade-Off (2018–2021): an artist-run experimental research project on lithium. In 2019, she was nominated for the Prix de Rome. She is currently a Creator Doctus (practice-based PhD) candidate at Sandberg Instituut (2020–2023)

Guangzhou Triennial 6 / Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2019
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Opinion: Museums connect our past and present

Salvador Salort-Pons
Original article on The Detroit News | Dec 15, 2019

When I began my career as a curator, museums were viewed as organizations that collected, preserved, displayed, and researched works of art, then educated the visitor about the information emerging from that work. The art object was the center of the museum’s focus, and the facts related to it helped write the narrative of our artistic culture.

Salvador Salort-Pons, DIA director talks about the Japan exhibit during the press conference.***The Detroit Institute of Arts is holding a press preview to introduce the new Japanese Art Gallery. Detroit, Mi. November 3, 2017, (Clarence Tabb Jr./Detroit News)
Clarence Tabb Jr., The Detroit News

Over time, particularly in recent years, cultural organizations such as museums and libraries have strengthened their relevance in our society. They are the keepers of our history and culture, and through scholarly research and interpretation they help shape our social identity, an authentic point of reference that people can trust.

But museums are becoming more than just buildings that house art collections and their associated factual information. Through permanent collections and a variety of cultural programs and exhibitions, ranging from the DIA’s current exhibition, Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume, to the Detroit Historical Museum’s award-winning community-based work on the Detroit ’67 project, museums are evolving into places to gather and share human experiences. They are establishing themselves as community builders that emphasize our rich, diverse cultures as a bonding medium for our society. Their collections are becoming mirrors where diverse communities seek to be represented and reflected, culturally and individually.

Scholarly research and conservation are the bedrock from which we start to build. Collections are a launching point to present and discuss matters with which communities wrestle, or by which they are inspired or simply enjoy. In the museum space, we welcome opportunities to hear multiple perspectives, the different views of the world that emerge from experiencing our art collection and the meanings that they spark for individuals.

Arts organizations can help our citizens develop critical thinking and creative skills so they are better prepared for their lives. Moreover, understanding how others think, learning how to listen, and creating a space for empathy, energized by the power of art, are some of the greatest opportunities museums can offer our audiences.

In our daily work, we must go beyond the walls of our buildings. We establish lines of dialogue with our communities, deepening our relationships with them and generating authentic bonds, as we serve them with programs that resonate with their interests while maintaining a museum-quality product. The result is an environment of trust and unity in which our society can thrive. Museums are places where we connect our past and present, build trust, inspire and envision a hopeful future.

Salvador Salort-Pons is director, president and CEO of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 

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Paul Virilio: Thinking speed

“Paul Virilio : Thinking Speed” a film by Stéphane Paoli (documentary 90 min / 2008 / La Générale de Production / ARTE France) In an unprecedented way, this dazzling story of Paul Virilio’s thought confronts the reflections of philosophers, political actors and journalists such as Rifkin, Yunus, Bender, Klein, Jean Nouvel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zbdiFqbTnw&feature=emb_logo

“If time is money, speed is power…”

Progress and catastrophe are the obverse and reverse sides of the same coin (…) To invent the train is to invent the derailment, to invent the plane is to invent the crash (…) there is no pessimism in this, no despair, it is a rational phenomenon (…), masked by the propaganda of progress.

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Get Donations For Your Museum With Fundraising Website Plugins

Jim Richardson
Original paper on MuseumNext >

Is your museum looking to get donations online? Are you looking for a WordPress donation plugin?
With the current crisis hitting museum finances, institutions are looking at how they can raise funds online. In this article, we will share fundraising and donation plugins that can help your museum to collect one off and recurring donations from those visiting your website.
We’re focusing on WordPress websites in this article as this is the world’s most popular content management system and is used extensively to build museum websites.
One of the advantages of using WordPress is the extensive plugin library. A plugin is a piece of software that can add functionality or features to your website without the need for programming knowledge.
There are dozens of WordPress donation plugins available, some are free, while others require either a one off payment or a subscription. In this article we look at the two most popular options the free PayPal Donations Button and the most popular paid option GiveWP