Time
Thread
Time is a thread about perception. A clock counts; the body has other measures. The work gathered here treats time as something inhabited rather than spent, and rest as a form of presence rather than absence.
An exhibition set the terms, and talks, sound, scent, and a dinner carried them through the season.
Does time pass where no one experiences it?
Physics finds no "now" in the universe; experience knows nothing else. Which do we trust?
Why does time speed up as we age, and can attention slow it down?
Standard time is barely 150 years old. What did the world lose when the clocks agreed?
Rest has become something to optimize. What was it before?
Exhibition · 20 February – 4 April 2026 · curated by Sara Alavi Kia
Active Rest. An Exploration of Time
Painting, photography, objects, scent, sound, and light: how time is perceived and inhabited. With Rhiannon Inman-Simpson, Crystin Moritz, Laura Stoll, Alexander Kasses, and the Pavilion of Time by Aknur Zhussip and Zarina Belousova.
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Programs · spring 2026
Talks & gatherings
Space and Sound, On Consciousness, Resonance Studies, and an artistic dinner, through the run of the exhibition.
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Edition · scent
Reminder
An olfactory work by Alexander Kasses / Néomirage, made for the exhibition, in an edition of one hundred.
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Reminder
An olfactory work by Alexander Kasses / Néomirage, made for Active Rest: incense, blood orange, and ylang-ylang. It existed immaterially in the exhibition space and materially as an edition of one hundred oil essences.
The thread continues.
New projects will be developed under this thread and read against those before them.
Proposals are read with interest, particularly in philosophy, psychology, visual art, and music; the thread favors work already underway that a production platform can bring to full form.