Learning community: How do we ‘practice' time differently?

For this occasion, musician, curator and media researcher Katía Truijen will speak about research and curation as a social practice. She will unpack some recent projects and ongoing collaborations that deal with notions of time and listening, including Time Troublers and Time Out which she co-organized as part of Loom, the podcast Something Temporary together with cultural anthropologist Laurie Hermans, and the Rewire festival context programme Times and Territories. Departing from these various examples and formats, Katía will discuss ways to collectively develop new and artistic approaches to dealing with (a lack of) time, while discussing social and political dimensions of different temporalities. How do we ‘practice' time differently?

On the occasion of the launch of her essay The Sea as a Metronome, director/editor-in-chief of art magazine Mister Motley Laure van den Hout has selected excerpts from the text which she will share in multiple ways—in the space and in the conversation. In this essay, Laure departs from nature as the elemental clock, which conveys an experience of time that is formed by the fluctuations of ‘approaches and recedings’. Think of the moon and the sun—one nears when the other has departed, one signals darkness while the other brings light, and together they ebb and flow. Like water, and the many guises it takes on, Laure notes that one cannot enforce the state one is in at a given moment in time, and that productivity to the extent we are used to is likely a forced state. ‘Makability’ and makeable time have their limits.