Time-Ography
Archive Collision Contemporary Continuity Crystallization of time Delay Dimensions of time Disorganisation of time Dream-time Duration Embodiment Ephemeral Event Fragmentation of time Happening Intermediality Layers of time Linearity Metaphor Moment Multiplication of time
Paradox Poethics and aesthetics of time Repetition Rhythm Scenic Time Shared time Simultaneity Sleep mode off Sleep Sleepless Slow-motion Slowness Simultaneity Spatialization of time Speed up Splitting of time Stillness Temporality Temporalization of space Time structure
Archive
Container for carefully chosen things from the past that could be wanted in the future
Collision
An abrupt encounter between two things, producing an effect
Contemporary
Being contemporary means being present, aware and critical in every aspects of your life.
Continuity
The unbroken and consistent existence of something over time
Crystallization of time
Generate the feeling of time being stopped and by this means creating an image of it
Delay
It happens later than the expected; it’s the immediate to another time in the future.
Dimensions of time
The existence of time in an alternate dimension, parallel to our own
Disorganisation of time
now soon
past then future now
lack of the linear
Dream-time
The moment in which the unconscious can take over the mind
Duration
Time in-between two different moments
Embodiment
Soul, Spirit Invested With A Physical Form
Ephemeral
Short-lived Transitory
Event
An activity, an occurrence that can be defined by a beginning and an ending that happens within a certain space
Fragmentation of time
instance instance instance instance
gap gap gap gap gap
Happening
Something that happens in time with significant others.
Intermediality
interconnectivity, mutual influence and interaction
Layers of time
Levels or states at different distances from the now.
Linearity
A thinking concept of a stream of time based on effect following cause and chronology
Metaphor
Knowledge in a visual concept
Moment
An indefinitely short period of time which has the potential to become a memory
Multiplication of time
Management of time in a way in which a single moment could be related to different perspectives, in different layers
Paradox
Two statements that seem true on their own, but that are unable to exist together and both be true
Poethics and aesthetics of time
Attempt to grasp time with the tools of art
Repetition
The act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again, again, again, again, again, again
Rhythm
A strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound
Scenic Time
Here, anything can happen.
Shared time
Now meets us
Simultaneity
Things happening at the same time, often observable side by side, our attention is able to travel.
Sleep
Time of self-forgetfulness
Sleep mode off
The inability of total sleep
Sleepless
being awake at sleeptimes
Slow-motion
Enlarging moments or actions to an non natural rythm of slowness
Slowness
Time within time
Spatialization of time
Time is passing as seen in space Time Occupies Space.
Speed up
Move faster, take less
Splitting of time
You are here, I am here. We are not together.
Stillness
Stillness is a mental noise, can be only perceived in contrast with rhythm, it is a state of absence of movement.
Temporality
From temporalis: “of a time, but for a time”
Temporalization of space
Changes of scene ////Induce A Passage of time Changes of scene ////But for a time
Time structure
The continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past
Epilogue - go with me This is a Time-Ography - a writing on and in time. The extra ‘o’ that the title carries along, playfully points towards time’s relation to scenography - a writing on and in space. The ‘O’ allows, as it were, space for time. From a collection of texts we, the MA Scenography first year students and me, read and discussed in the frame of a discursive seminar on time, these words resided in the room and resonated with the readers; especially those terms that couldn’t be grasped so easily. Collision. Metaphor. Stillness. We collected them and I encouraged the making of a glossary together, one that would capture a shared process of discourse. Not so easy to be achieved, a shared understanding of such a list. The guiding research question of the seminar was, what is today’s shared time, and how can we relate to it scenographically? Obviously, we found various possible answers. However it seems that when time is shared, a space appears. Now meets us is the students’ eventual answer in this Time-Ography. I saw such a meeting happen in the last class of our seminar, when I
came in a bit late (Delay: it happens later than the expected; it’s the immediate to another time, in the future), and the group had started to discuss their take on the glossary. Expressing a wish for a collective, poetic and visual work. Exciting to see how in the weeks after they translated the seminars material in their own language. Gathered, re-organized, described, pictured and edited through a collective work this intuitive glossary came into being. That does not mean however that the forty textualvisual definitions can be read as a consensus of the ten different voices and visions of the students. Rather they are new understandings that came into being between those differences uttered in a shared process of exploring the (as frustrating as enchanting) vast dimensions of time. I hope you get back to this little reference-book repeatedly, distract your own definitions from it, and have it become your own personal - to add one more term - Vademecum; Latin for ‘go with me’: a handbook intended to be carried along at all times. Nienke Scholts
Imprint Definitions and pictures: Ana Duarte Astrid Bode Britt van Groningen Camila Caiza Dorothea Mines Fransje Christiaans Laura Stolte Nina van der Mark Samon Presland Zsรณfia Hajdu Layout: Laura Stolte This glossary originates in the Reading Group TIME led by lecturer Nienke Scholts
ŠMaster Scenography, Utrecht 2016