What’s Next? Translating Time, Transforming Objects in the Conservation of Multimedia

Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2013). What’s Next? Translating Time, Transforming Objects in the Conservation of Multimedia In: Hedinger, Johannes M.; Meyer, Thorsten (eds.) What's Next ? Kunst nach der Krise: Ein Reader (pp. 251-258). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos

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The question of “what’s next?” has temporal underpinnings. It pertains to time and how we engage with this concept. “What then is time? If no one asks of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not” confesses Saint Augustine in the eleventh of thirteen books he wrote in the fourth century titled Confessions.1 To be sure, time is one of the most mysterious aspects of the world we live in. Thinkers have been struggling with questioning the nature of time for centuries, yet the ultimate theory of time still seems to be lacking. With the end of modernism and confronted with the lack of perspective for the new beginnings, thinking about time was allegedly ignored and went out of focus in everything other than secondary literature.2 “In a sense, it is always too late to talk about time,” posited French philosopher Jacques Derrida.3 Korean video artist Nam June Paik, in turn, having acquired a vast number of books devoted to the topic of time, realised that he had absolutely no time to read them.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture > Contemporary Art and Media
Name:	Hölling, Hanna Barbara0000-0002-3063-4405; Hedinger, Johannes M. and Meyer, Thorsten
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
ISBN:	978-3-86599-200-0
Publisher:	Kulturverlag Kadmos
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hanna Barbara Hölling
Date Deposited:	15 Sep 2023 09:21
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 09:21
Related URLs:	Publication
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Future, time, media, conservation, temporality, preservation
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.19883
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19883