BBC4 about Russian Art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00phtcz

"The clock ticked. The moving instant which, according to Sir Isaac Newton, separates the infinite past from the infinite future advanced inexorably through the dimension of time. Or, if Aristotle was right, a little more of the possible was every instant made real; the present stood still; the present stood still and drew into itself the future, as a man might suck forever at an unending piece of macaroni."

Aldous Huxley 'Point counter point'

thanks to Ari

Fischli & Weiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfEkPgfA7wo

Лагуна (Lagoon)

....

VI

Рождество без снега, шаров и ели

у моря, стесненного картой в теле;

створку молююска пустив ко дну,

пряча лицо, но спиной пленяя,

Время выходит из волн, меняя

стрелку на башне - ее одну.

...

by Joseph Brodsky

from A Part of Speech

senses

'Time can be neither seen or felt, neither heard nor tasted nor smelt. How can something be measured if it’s not perceptible to the senses.'

Time: an Essay

by Norbet Elias

comrades of time

The present is a moment in time when we decide to lower our expectations of the future or to abandon some of the dear traditions of the past in order to pass through the narrow gate of the here-and-now....

In order to move further down the narrow path of the present, modernity shed all that seemed too heavy, too loaded with meaning, mimesis, traditional criteria of mastery, inherited ethical and aesthetic conventions, and so forth. Modern reductionism is a strategy for surviving the difficult journey through the present. Art, literature, music, and philosophy have survived the twentieth century because they threw out all unnecessary baggage. At the same time, these lightened loads also reveal a kind of hidden truth that transcends their immediate effectiveness. They show that one can give up a great deal—traditions, hopes, skills, and thoughts—and still continue one’s project in this reduced form. This truth also made the modernist reductions transculturally efficient—crossing a cultural border is in many ways like crossing the limit of the present....

The present has ceased to be a point of transition from the past to the future, becoming instead a site of the permanent rewriting of both past and future—of constant proliferations of historical narratives beyond any individual grasp or control.

Boris Groys Comrades of Time

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/99

>why Z time?