Times Heterotopia Trilogy #2: You Can Only Think About Something if You Think of Something Else at Times Museum You Can Only Think About Something if You Think of Something Else was originally a line from the movie In Praise of Love (Éloge de l’amour), in which the director Jean-Luc Godard voiced the conflicting moment of our thinking, through the mouth of his character: One cannot but take reference from some other familiar objects when one is approaching the meaning of a specific one. The title can be taken as a metaphor for the unique situation of Times Museum. Being a concept realized as part of the 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Times Museum was established in a residential neighbourhood as an art institution, and has actively engaged the local residents with something alternative to their quotidian reality. The Museum’s programs, as deviating forms of perception, create heterotopias within an ordinary piece of real estate. The existence of Times Museum acts as a local view of art’s global intervention into the everyday, while the aestheticization of the everyday, such as the uncounted texts and images creatively produced and circulated on the internet, challenges the canons and paradigms of art distribution and interpretation. The reciprocal relation between art and the everyday opens up cohabitant moments for different communities, and sets up temporary sites for rehabilitation for a heterogeneous society. e-flux/announcements/times-heterotopia-trilogy-2-you-can-only-think-about-something-if-you-think-of-something-else/
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:00:00 +0000
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