14/12/2008

Time

2008 is to last one second longer - see article in the New Scientist

05/12/2008

Idris Kahn



Idris Kahn is a photographer who has worked with capturing time in his work. 'It is often said that photographers freeze time, but Khan does the opposite. This can be seen most clearly in his remixes of Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies of the 1880s (a well-documented source of inspiration for Francis Bacon). Muybridge used fast-shutter speeds to break action into moment-by-moment increments, rendering movement stationary. Khan takes these sequences of isolated moments and unfreezes time by combining them in a single image. Muybridge's strictly mechanical record of a man getting out of bed becomes a vision of the unconscious lifting clear of the body, a dream of waking.' article continues here
Photographs
Idris Kahn discussing his work

03/12/2008

Richard Serra



There is a new BBC programme on Richard Serra everyone should see (it is only available on i-player until Tuesday). His work is about the inclusion of the viewer through movement, about place, and one piece in particular is about drawing people out to walk into the landscape and to see it with a changed/new perspective. All very relevant for the new project.
The free exhibition of his work is still on in London until 20th Dec so go and see it if you can.
Watch this
Free London exhibition details

TIME



Watch the Horizon episode on Time - What time is it? via the following link - this should be available for a week.
Horizon