What is time based art?
Is it to do with exposure length.
Implies photography, video of a performance piece? Or video of something growing all speeded up like a tulip in 12 seconds? Does it involve computers..say.
The languge of art eh..rubbish. I reckon exposure is the key word.
Is Richard Long walking around a lake chucking a stick and picking up a stone throwing that and then picking up a fox scull etc? Is that time based art? I think it might be…I believe Robert Motherwell's 'Ellergies' are time based as well. I think he painted even more than 150 actually. Are aboriginal patterns depicting 'the dreamtime' which is both past and present in the same picure…wow that is time based or what.
Is me walking along the shore line everyday with Cos and sketching the turbines of the wind farm and creating a map for each walk,for say 30 days… thats 30 maps responding to the landscape we are passing through.
Is that a time based piece of work?
If you throw a pebble hard enough it creates a spark when it hits another pebble or the concrete sea defence wall. You cant see it in the daytime, but if you do at night you can.
