Time and temporality in Literature and other Arts - 3

2 Março 2018, 10:00 Ângela Fernandes

We first revisited key figures in 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics and art, film, photography and literary studies to canvas existent views of time’s presentation and role in the arts. Building on their insights, and on the back of the attention paid in previous days to the key role of external time-measuring and -keeping instruments that shape our shared cultural conception(s) and experience(s) of time, we decided to also look at artworks as additional ‘prostheses’ of time. Through a discussion of more contemporary approaches we devised a conceptual ‘toolkit’ with which to analyse works (from all the arts) as such alternative time-keeping and measuring instruments.