06.30.2017 Morvarid K.: “Preserved for a better day”
With « Preserved for a better day », artist Morvarid K. recalls the daily lives of people living in Tehran.
06.26.2017 Philosophical thought of cinema
“The moment is not overcome. It turns into a drama and a sequence that confronts action with time.” (Jean-Clet Martin)
06.23.2017 The concept of time of Norbert Elias
“time is a phenomenon that is constructed by the very tools that measure it.” (Nathalie Heinich)
06.16.2017 On Kawara
“These dates, that follow each other in succession, paint a picture of a mysterious artist .” (Paul Nyzam)
06.12.2017 The theater time
“Does the same thing happen during every repetition?” (Eve Mascarau)
06.09.2017 Aby Warburg’s concept of artistic survival
“Warburg invented a new way of thinking about images and their paradoxical nature via the notion of survival.” (Soko Phay)
06.05.2017 Bachelard: the candle and the hourglass
“Time is a reality curled up in the instant, and suspended between two voids.” (Gaston Bachelard, The Intuition of the Instant)
05.29.2017 The Clock
“Impassive clock! Terrifying, sinister god,”
05.26.2017 What is contemporaneity?
“The issue of modern art and contemporaneity is the same” (Olivier Zahm)
05.19.2017 The Age
The Age is a poem from Ossip Emilievitch Mandelstam (1891-1938), a Rusian poet and essayist, who was born in Warsaw and died at Vladivostok, in a Goulag camp.
05.15.2017 The time of Albert Einstein
To consider that the duration of time between two events can vary depending on how fast one is moving goes against logic.
05.12.2017 Marey’s motionless progress
By using a machine instead of biology to sequence time via images, Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) kick-started a change that would herald the future.
05.08.2017 Memory of hourglasses
The hourglass is a mysterious, ingenious and crucial invention which perfection prevents any advancement.