A Vocabulary of Time Wasted by Bojana Kunst and Danae Theodoridou


Definitions gathered by Bojana Kunst and Danae Theodoridou during encounters with visitors between November 11th and 16th, 2011, at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers.



"Amnesia: How does it affect your relation to time, if you know that you won’t have any memory of it?" (Lenio)
"Affection: This is what makes time happen, the openness, the opposite of pain, which is oppression, lack of time, lack of space, lack of life." (Vanessa Theodoropoulou)



"Long: it would mean to judge temporality, wouldn't it? Why would it be long? Am I so gifted and swift?" (Pauline)



"Sleeping during a performance is such a nice feeling, maybe it’s very underrated. It’s ok, perhaps the next event I’m going to introduce the possibility of doing that during the performance". (A Constructed World)



"Uselesness: there is a bay in the Chilean Patagonia, in Tierra del Fuego, named Useless Bay. As I gazed at it it opened up the time of the useless; the value of the useless or is that an oximoron? "Sometimes doing nothing leads to something; sometimes doing something leads to nothing" (Francis Alÿs)". (Camila Marambio)


Article published in Le Journal des Laboratoires January-April 2012