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We are here, but is it now? (the submarine horizons of contemporaneity) Raqs Media Collective

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Author:
Raqs Media Collective (Organization)  Search this
Physical description:
47 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 19 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2017
21st century
21e siècle
Notes:
HMSGMAI copy 39088019741693 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Summary:
It is said that we know more about far-away galaxies than we do about the bottom of the oceans on earth. One could say something similar about our relationship to the future and to the contemporary. The distant future can seem more familiar than the deep present. We know it will come, regardless of whether or not we are around to witness it. Searching for the present is a bit like deep sea diving. How to dive without drowning in the turbulent waters of now? How to find and share sources of illumination in submarine darkness? When to surface and how to ride a strong current? Why stay afloat on the present moment at all? And what to look for while beachcombing the sea-floor of our time? These are some of the questions that Raqs Media Collective address in their account of contemporaneity, guided by a motley collection of figures lost and found in the turbulence of their practice.00Copublished with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum
Topic:
Time and art  Search this
Contemporary, The, in art  Search this
Art, Indic  Search this
Temps et art  Search this
Contemporanéité dans l'art  Search this
Art de l'Inde  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1156760