About Temporal Experiments
In treating artworks as temporal experiments, this book stresses the fact that artworks always experiment with the raw materials of time, fashioning it or refashioning it into novel combinations.
This book follows the imperatives of these experiments in order to advance a nuanced understanding of the way time insinuates itself into all aspects of social and intellectual life.
The seven chapters that make up the book all pivot on a key temporal figure: habit, transit, event, kairos, rhythm, ritual, and idleness. These figures are explored from the perspective of specific artworks that test out their range and valence.
Working closely with literary, visual, and musical artworks, the book aims to provoke new ways of engaging with the question of time. It treats artworks as experiments that launch temporal figures, and that test out the possibilities and connections these different figures enable.
Thus, the book seizes upon works by artists like Anne Carson, King Tubby, and Raymond Queneau as opportunities for thinking through the valence of both existing and untested temporal configurations.
What other modes of shaping time, it asks, might be conjured out of the viewing of an Omer Fast film, the reading of a poem by Baudelaire, or of a novel by Tom McCarthy?
Program
- Presentation of the book by the editors, Bruce Barnhart og Marit Grøtta,
- Bruce Barnhart: On "rhythm " as a temporal figure
- Tina Skouen: On "kairos" as a temporal figure
- Panel discussion: Temporal experiments in literature, art and everyday life. Tina Skouen, Bruce Barnhart, and Marit Grøtta
- Ca. 15.20-16.00: Refreshments, mingling & poster exhibition
Participants
- Bruce Barnhart is Associate Professor of English Language Literature at the University of Oslo
- Marit Grøtta is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo
- Tina Skouen is Professor of English Language Literature at the University of Oslo
About the event
The event is organized by the research group Temporal Experiments in collaboration with the Seminar of Aesthetics.
Click here to view Temporal Experiments on Routledge (routledge.com).
Contributors
Christian Refsum, Aron Vinegar, Marit Grøtta, Tina Skouen, Bruce Barnhart, Emma Heggdal and Per Sigurd Tveitevåg Styve.