Doing Time

Focus area: New Media

Module responsible: Luz María Sánchez Cardona

DOING TIME: Practices of Counter-Chronologies and Dissent.

This project-based module examines time as both a conceptual and material field of artistic inquiry. Through practice-based experiments, discussions, and situated actions, it approaches time as a political terrain shaped by artistic and epistemic practices of dissent and counter-chronology. The module explores how acts of making, observing, and writing can operate as forms of temporal inquiry, engaging decolonial and autoethnographic perspectives to trace how we locate ourselves within overlapping temporalities.

The course encourages artistic approaches that challenge accepted stories about how history unfolds, how progress is measured, or how collapse is represented—and questions who constructs and owns these narratives within different temporal frameworks.

This is a project-based module with a focus on time in relation to artistic processes, exploring one or several perspectives such as slow time, accelerated time, non-linear time, captured time, geological time, etc. Emphasis is placed on the possible timespans and time signatures of an artwork; the histories of its material components, the process of its fabrication in the hands of the artist, the rhythm of its circulation and dissemination, the politics of its absorption into a cultural context.

PRO modules are designed to enrich your artist development (as explored in the ART modules) through activating skills, connecting communities of practice, and investigating disciplinary territories. PRO modules allow you to focus on a specific project critically connected to your own practice within a context established by the module leader(s).

Knowledge:

• Develop awareness of relevant references and practices

Skills

• Develop new skills in relation to time-oriented processes artworks
• Identify, seek out, and apply relevant skills to a self-initiated projec

General Competence

• Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
• Apply new knowledge and skills within your artistic practice
• Resolve, realize, and present new work.