Making Time – Con-temporary Conversations

The philosopher-anthropologist Johannes Fabian observed that Western notions of “the human” were constructed in terms of evolutionary time, of “advanced” and “primitive” societies. Acknowledging this, placing it in the dustbin of history, and developing respectful and just relations therefore requires dialogue with others as “co-evals” or con-temporaries. In this event, artist- and curator-led conversations from Southern Africa and Europe invite us to reflect on how all art is “time based,” and so how time – how contemporaneity – is made and encountered in artistic practices.

Contributors include: Dominic Daula; Maipelo Gabang; Thobile Maphanga; Njabulo Phungula; Sarah-Louise Spies; Anelisa Stuurman; Heloisa Amaral & Lucia D’Errico; Victor Gama; Christian Grüny; Gillian Lees & Adam York Gregory; Ariana Philips-Hutton; and Berno Polzer.