In his essay On the Contemporary Agamben demands that ‘we manage to be in some way contemporaries’ not only of things that are close to our own time but also of those that are years removed from us. Elsewhere, he discusses potentiality as a notion closely connected with a change in the concept of past, according to which the past is not understood as an irrevocable concept anymore, but as a concept that returns through our acts of remembrance to the possible and the potential. Drawing on...

One has to be ‘irrelevant’ in order to grasp one’s own time, Agamben argues. ‘Those who are truly contemporary, who truly belong to their time, are those who neither perfectly coincide with it nor adjust themselves to its demands’. Travelling to pasts, presents and futures this workshop aims to discuss and practice notions of ‘irrelevance’ and togetherness in order to approach contemporary uses of time in performance

Over the last decade, a project has been one of most frequently used words among artists, producers and other protagonists in culture. Cultural and other creative workers are involved in a number of projects which often run simultaneously, in their presentation, implementation and completion. Today, a project is the horizon of creative process. In her lecture, Kunst will talk about how this ambiguous word used for various forms of cultural products and artworks includes a special temporal...