foivi psevdou
theatre pedagogue performance artist
intra-disciplinary
research with
artistic practice
practicing divergent temporalities: duration, slowness, listening
six performative experiments
explore practices that subvert western temporal norms
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practicing divergent temporalities: duration, slowness, listening is a research with artistic practice that emerged, between Arnhem (NL) and Athens (GR), during my studies at Master Performance Practices, ArtEZ University of the Arts. it delves into durational performance art, questions western temporal norms, and proposes practices that diverge from normative perception of time.
supervisor: Mariella Greil
external mentor: Marilyn Arsem
times: 2019-2021
what is it about?
research steps
an urgency to reconsider my relation with measured time
an investigation of how western humans perceive, use, and practice time at the beginning of the 21st century
an attempt to subvert temporal norms in everyday life and in public space
an assemblage of performative experiments and practices
a query about shifting my perception of time
a quest to bring forth qualities of time that western societies are in lack of
terms
performative experiments comprise my main research method. with each experiment i impose a deliberate change onto a learned temporal habit of mine. i observe and document what emerges within this condition. i focus on how my perception of time shifts and on what qualities of time are engendered. through their conducting the experiments perform, enact, and bring forth divergent temporalities; they (re)configure temporal phenomena within the neoliberal sociopolitical environment.
temporalities are viewed, here, as culturally specific perceptions of time that encompass a set of ideologies, thinking structures, social structures, habits, cultural values and attitudes, devices, and temporal practices.
perception is viewed as the bodily relation with time within an environment.
the questioning of normative temporality is an urgency for me because temporal norms are constitutive of daily human behaviour within a society; they configure human being-in the world and being-with other human and non-human bodies.
(re)configuring perceptions of time (re)configures human being-with the world.
temporality of productivity is used to describe the normative temporality in today's western societies. it perpetuates a time that is measured by clocks; moves regularly on a line from past to future; focuses on efficient coordination of human action and production of predictable outcomes; shapes a mode of human being-in the world that is dominated by unceasing calculations of how much can be done, produced, and consumed in a certain amount of time.