Opening: Saturday July 5th, 2 p.m. Come to the Institute of Suspended Time... we have long awaited this moment... Come in and let's talk: when did you last seriously reflected on your relationship with time? And what do you think of today's time politics? The Institute of Suspended Time, serving as a vehicle for theoretical investigation and artistic formalization, seeks to suspend time, to denaturalise the temporal experience of our age characterized as linear, chronometric, uniform, productive, and accelerationist. This prevalent understanding of time, which we intend to suspend, is referred to as “the Western hour” or, more accurately, the “Neoliberal Temporal Regime”. The aim, then, is to explore alternative artistic formats and to take an original approach to the power of aesthetic practices. We present an institute (an anti-institute, or a destitute) designed to suspend the temporal regime imposed by the era in which we live. This means reclaiming the time expropriated by work-related stress (“Life isn't enough!”), by false digital leisure (“I unwind by using social media or watching TV series”), by planetary extractivism (“mechanizing the living”), and by the relentless family and social pressure that repeatedly tells us, “Wasting time is forbidden”. In essence, the Institute of Suspended Time is a project that challenges the chrononormativity that governs our lives. So, come visit us... take your time... step into the Institute of Suspended Time to experience chronodiversity both individually and socially.
Image: Institute of Suspended Time (IST).