Forms of Time
The arts need time. They need time in order to be experienced and appreciated; to unfold their creative and transformative power; and to allow society to absorb and evaluate their meanings. Forms of Time is concerned not only with the time it takes to engage with the arts, but also with the ways in which the arts construct, absorb and dispose time. In a series of public lectures and dialogues, how the arts inflect time as rhythm and expanse will be considered; how they cope with it as challenge and burden; how they take up people’s time in the investments of reading, listening and viewing, and then return it transformed.
The aim is to investigate the role of imaginative and creative practices in transforming us and our experience of time. The intention is to explore the experiential dimension of time, its mediation and articulation through a range of cultural practices, filtered through of poetry and the arts. At the heart of the project lies the question of how we live time and live in time, and of how time itself may have a ‘living’ quality. Attention to the experiential alerts us to qualitative differences in our perception of time as animate or inanimate, as ‘dead’ time or as something that we feel the need to ‘kill’ through ‘pastimes’ or ‘pursuits.’ The anticipated outputs are a collaborative research proposal to a major funding body, and an edited volume of essays.
Forms of Time involves two sets of activities: a phased internal research conversation and a series of public lectures/dialogues. The research conversation is articulated in five 2-hour workshops, across Michaelmas and Epiphany terms, divided into topics (exploration phase), questions (formulation phase), disciplines (articulation phase), project (configuration phase), and bid (implementation phase). Pre-circulated readings will form the springboard of the discussion, allowing questions to emerge against, and in dialogue with, significant existing bodies of thought and scholarship on the articulation and animation of time. The lecture series aims to chart the cultural inflection of time in a variety of poetic and artistic forms.
The research conversation is open to scholars working on questions of temporality and culture; interested colleagues, fellows and postgraduate researchers are welcomed to contact the programme organisers (Dr Stefano Cracolici and Dr Caitríona Ní Dhúill). The public lecture series will take place in the Epiphany and Easter terms and features speakers from a variety of disciplinary and professional backgrounds.
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