{"id":855,"date":"2020-10-23T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=theatre&#038;p=855"},"modified":"2020-10-21T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:57:11","slug":"what-time-is-it","status":"publish","type":"theatre","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/what-time-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT TIME IS IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Notes, inspirations, and ideas structured as a schedule to help reflect on the notion of time.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>6:08AM<br \/>\n<\/b>Set your alarm every morning at a different time.<\/p>\n<p><b>7:30AM<br \/>\n<\/b>Read an essay.<\/p>\n<p>In the introduction of his essay <i>Time, Capitalism, and Alienation: A Socio-Historical Inquiry into the Making of Modern Time<\/i><i>,<\/i> Jonathan Martineau argues: \u201cWe live in strange times, and we live in an estranged time. We order our lives according to an abstract, impersonal, and extremely precise temporal order, but the concrete experiences of our lived times often seem out of synch with the abstract character of our clock-based social time regime. It is as if our obsession with saving, measuring, and organizing time has gone hand in hand with our own temporal alienation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>8:38AM<br \/>\n<\/b>Don\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SDONJhm7ie8\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nYou might lose your time.<\/p>\n<p><b>9:00AM<br \/>\n<\/b>Think.<\/p>\n<p>We often talk about the idea of <i>space, <\/i>either physically or conceptually. But far less about <i>time, <\/i>how <i>time<\/i> is an omnipresent structure that is guiding each and every choice we make into alienation.<br \/>\nCould we start to imagine something as a \u201csafe time\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><b>12:00PM<br \/>\n<\/b>Eat.<br \/>\n(If you\u2019re hungry)<br \/>\n(Or not \u2014 it\u2019s noon after all)<\/p>\n<p><b>1:11PM<br \/>\n<\/b>Contemplate.<br \/>\nWhat an amazing time.<\/p>\n<p><b>2:30PM<\/b><br \/>\nRead the back cover of a book on your desk.<\/p>\n<p><i>Uncontained: <\/i><i>Digital Disconnection and the Experience of Time<\/i> by Robert Hassan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthor Robert Hassan believes we are trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction. In <i>Uncontained<\/i>, he books a passage on a container ship and spends five weeks travelling from Melbourne to Singapore without digital distractions \u2014 disconnected, and essentially alone.<\/p>\n<p>In this space of isolation and reflection, he is able to reconnect with lost memories and interrogate the lived experience of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>3:32PM<br \/>\n<\/b>Read a novel.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of our research around the notion of time, I have been obsessed by the idea of \u200b\u200badding a May 32nd to the festival. The idea comes from a novel by Simon Leduc, <i>L&#8217;\u00e9vasion d&#8217;Arthur ou La commune d&#8217;Hochelaga<\/i>, but above all from the Nuit Debout movement which emerged in Paris in 2016. For Nuit Debout, time stopped on March 31st. And so Tuesday April 1st was renamed \u201cMarch 32nd&#8221; and so on. &#8220;We will pass into April when we have decided!&#8221; shouted a man to a newspaper team. The very idea of \u200b\u200bbeing able to invent time seems absolutely necessary to rebuild our relationship with our day-to-day life.<\/p>\n<p><b>5:43PM<br \/>\n<\/b>Take your phone out of your pocket.<br \/>\nCheck the time.<br \/>\nPut it back in your pocket.<br \/>\nForget the time.<br \/>\nRepeat until you remember it.<\/p>\n<p><b>8:41PM<br \/>\n<\/b>Think again.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been fascinated by the flaws and limits of translation, by the concepts and expressions that cannot be translated from one language to another, that get stuck in the perilous exercise of communication.\u00a0 For example, if you are trying to translate literally \u201cWhat time is it?\u201d in French, <i>time <\/i>would be translated as <i>temps. <\/i>But it wouldn\u2019t work, because<i> temps,<\/i> in a question like that, would refer to the weather and not to temporality.<\/p>\n<p><b>10:42PM<br \/>\n<\/b>Look outside.<\/p>\n<p><b>11:59PM<br \/>\n<\/b>Look at your clock and wait until it switches to 12:00AM.<br \/>\nSleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notes, inspirations, and ideas structured as a schedule to help reflect on the notion of time. 6:08AM Set your alarm every morning at a different time. 7:30AM Read an essay. 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