Where »time« takes »place«

31st Mar 2021 31st Mar 2021 17:00 18:30

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  • Akis Sinos

    GR

    Akis Sinos studied social sciences in Athens and digital media in London. He has been an active member of the athenian music scene over the last decade. He is a founding member of Romvos, a collective platform for the promotion of contemporary creative production in experimental and exploratory art and music.

    • Photo: Martin Meier

    In a variation of Marcel Proust's seminal novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, and playing with the term chronotopia itself, this lecture will be ask: Where does »time« take place? This talk will first examine how current videoconferencing media determine our communicative co-presence, before exploring a (re-) definition of the term »chronotope,« with a reference to Michel Foucault's seminal text »Of Other Spaces.« The musical »archive« will be contrasted with the sonic »recording,« via a focus on symbolic musics versus actual sounds found in the KSYME archive. The more we focus on »time,« the more remote this parameter becomes, dissolving into a multitude of cultural techniques and technological operations. More radically, »time,« as a reasonable and plausible parameter of analysis, itself gets lost in the present media condition.