Art & time

This is a segment from an article i came across online, i feel that it offers an intresting method of documenting and presenting both time and space.

Mark Godfrey on the shifting notions of time and space in recent film and video.

"Since the late 1960s, artists using the time-based media of film and video have continually pursued two kinds of spatial enquiry – investigating the space in the image, and complicating the space of its projection. Attentive to the machinery of their medium, they were often as interested in how a camera or lens recorded the space before it as in the content of what it recorded. They consistently refused to make use of the darkened cinematic space with its rows of seats in which we usually view film, or the half-lit sofa-plus-monitor domestic space in which we normally watch TV and video. Films and videos were installed instead in galleries and, once installed, the projector acted as a kind of hinge between two spaces (the image’s and the projection’s).

Video offered the possibility that the hinge could be snapped shut – the space shown in the image could be identical to that occupied by the projection. A camera set up in a room recorded whatever passed in front of it, simultaneously playing back the image on a monitor or projecting it on to a screen in the room. Film-makers could also emphasise the present tense in which their work was encountered by dramatising the space between projector and screen. They would project on to screens from the floor knowing their audiences would interrupt the beam of light. Though the image on celluloid was inevitably imprinted before the event, the image on the screen was contingent on whatever occurred at the specific time of the projection."

http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc//issue2/anothertimespace.htm

I would also like to reffer to a more physical and simple example of time, one that can be seen in our daily lifes on the streets and in both public and private spaces. I refer to the layering of ideas and actions of many people, over various time periods that can be seen in graffiti and public posters. I think this unconscious collaborations can be increadibly beautiful despite a lack of artistic intent 'in some cases'.