Thursday, February 18, 2021, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Co-hosted by MIT List Visual Arts Center and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
A businessperson waits for a delayed subway. A wrongly convicted prisoner awaits justice. A refugee waits for their asylum case. A nation waits for the promised boon of economic development. The world waits for a vaccine. Nature waits for its exploitation to end.
Waiting is usually what we do between things. It is the space between two destinations, an empty and anxious time to fill with distractions. But when we look more closely, we see that waiting is also an activity in itself, bristling with energy, uncertainty, and inequality. What does the condition of waiting reveal about us, our world, and the natural environment that sustains it?
This series of eight sessions offer glimpses into the thought and practices of artists, architects, historians, and theorists who grapple with this question. In each hour-long session, participants will share their own research into an aspect of waiting while touching on some of its registers: enforced waiting, chronic waiting, natural waiting, existential waiting, and even those desirable modes of waiting that we long for. A brief moderated discussion and audience Q&A will follow.
Taraneh Fazeli & Jonathan VanDyke: Feb 18, 2021, 5:30–6:30 pm
Taraneh Fazeli will speak about her ongoing research into time as it is encountered and reconsidered by those with chronic illness. Jonathan VanDyke discusses a durational performance in which he stands sentinel outside his parents’ home where he spent innumerable hours beside his ailing father.
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For more information on Premnath's upcoming exhibition at the CAC click here.
To see the full list of Shifter 25: Waiting events, click here.