DECEMBER 2025: TIME
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Theme Focus: TIME
Explore the concept of time: its passage, its weight, its absence. Time can be personal, historical, cyclical, or imagined. It can be marked by decay, growth, memory, or anticipation. Consider how your work engages with time:
- Does it freeze a moment or stretch across eras?
- Is it shaped by nostalgia, urgency, or repetition?
- How does your medium express duration, change, or timelessness?
Presentation Guidelines
To ensure everyone has a chance to share, each presenter will be given a limited time slot. Please prepare to be concise and focused. Respectful critique is essential—our goal is to help each other grow. If you require special requirements for your piece you must message me to see if accommodations are possible.
Suggested Readings and Resources
To deepen your engagement with this theme, here are several readings and essays that explore time in art:
- About Time: Temporality in American Art and Visual Culture
A collection of essays examining how artists engage with time as subject and structure. Topics include Indigenous temporalities, interruption, and ecstatic time.
Panorama Journal - Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art by Kate Bretkelly-Chalmers
Explores how artists like Marina Abramović and Olafur Eliasson challenge standardized time through performance and installation.
University of Chicago Press - Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature
Treats artworks as experiments in time, examining how visual and literary forms embody different temporal logics.
Routledge - The Role of Time in Art and Literature
A blog-style overview of how time creates movement, tension, and symbolism across creative disciplines.
TimeQuiver Blog
Prompt for Presenters
As you prepare your piece, consider:
- What kind of time does your work evoke—clock time, emotional time, historical time?
- How does your medium shape the viewer’s experience of duration or change?