The Past is the Present, It's the Future Too The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art

by Ross, Christine

• ISBN13: 9781441116048
• ISBN10: 1441116044
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-28
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The term 'temporality' often refers to the traditional mode of the way time is: a linear procession of past, present and future. As philosophers will note, this is not always the case. Christine Ross builds on current philosophical and theoretical examinations of time and applies them to the field of contemporary art: films, video installations, sculpture and performance works. Ross first provides an interdisciplinary overview of contemporary studies on time, focusing on findings in philosophy, psychology, sociology, communications, history, postcolonial studies, and ecology. She then illustrates how contemporary artistic practices play around with what we consider linear time. Engaging the work of artists such as Guido van der Werve, Melik Ohanian, Harun Farocki, and Stan Douglas, allows investigation though the art, as opposed to having art taking an ancillary role.The Past is the Present; It's the Future Tooforces the reader to understand the complexities of the significance of temporal development in new artistic practices.

Table of Contents

IntroductionChapter 1: The Contemporaneity of Temporal InvestigationsChapter 2: Unproductive TimeChapter 3: The Recent Past as a Quasi-RemnantChapter 4: The Age Value of the Work of ArtChapter 5: Simultaneity IChapter 6: Simultaneity IIChapter 7: The Historical Sublime, or Longue durée RevisitedBibliographyIndex