time infrastructures
Not just stillness, but how we meet time.
This series explores the temporal dimensions of sitting: as subjugation, as participation, and as suspension.
Position:
Cairo, Egypt; Akre, Iraq; Tunis, Tunisia; Amman, Jordan; Bukhara, Uzbekistan; Naxchivan, Azerbaijan; Köln, Germany
Date:
2024-2025
A reflection on how we inhabit time
Three temporal dimensions
Subjucation
You are victim of time. External rhythms regulate your presence in time and space. You sit and wait, passively, for a delayed train, a scheduled appointment, or in the line at the cashier.
Time stretches thin.
Participation
You are an active agent in time: elsewhere, sitting manifests as an activity — people gathers around tables for lunch, engage in work or conversations, inhabiting shared structures of time. These are moments of coordination and purpose, when sitting supports action.
Suspension
You are no victim nor agent: the third dimension of experiencing time defies urgency or obligation. Sitting to rest. Sitting to contemplate, untethered from schedule. Here, time softens. It floats. And so do you.
