The Moment, The Past
2014
LED display board;
Video Documentation: 01’13”.
Hashterms
Derived from interface as it relates to both -inter & –faith. It acknowledges that bridging between topologies of religious and secular believe systems requires elaborated modelling of knowledge and experience.
Machinery capable of producing epistemologies.
The LED display emits an intense white light, endlessly repeating the phrase: “…This very moment has already become the past – this very mo…”. Placed in a time-based and spatial context, text stripped of its static properties expresses time’s flow, as a chanted mantra mediated via light, text, and motion. It performs duration: it marks the passing of time even as it names the present. This minimalist work could be seen as a monument to the irreversibility of time and our dual capacity to perceive it or remain oblivious.
Emitting an intense white glow, the LED display continuously scrolls the phrase: “…This very moment has already become the past—This very mo…”.
Once situated within a temporal and spatial framework, the text no longer retains the material stability of something fixed, like a sentence painted on a wall. Its permanence dissolves. Instead, it operates through duration, directing the viewer’s attention toward the fleeting instant of the “now” even as that instant slips away. Stripped of its static properties, the text expresses time’s flow, as a chanted mantra mediated via light, text, and motion. It performs duration: it marks the passing of time even as it names the present. This minimalist work could be seen as a monument to the irreversibility of time and our dual capacity to perceive it or remain oblivious.
'This Very Moment' video documentation, 2014.
The Moment, The Past
2014
LED display board;
Video Documentation: 01’13”.
Hashterms
Derived from interface as it relates to both -inter & –faith. It acknowledges that bridging between topologies of religious and secular believe systems requires elaborated modelling of knowledge and experience.
Machinery capable of producing epistemologies.
The LED display emits an intense white light, endlessly repeating the phrase: “…This very moment has already become the past – this very mo…”. Placed in a time-based and spatial context, text stripped of its static properties expresses time’s flow, as a chanted mantra mediated via light, text, and motion. It performs duration: it marks the passing of time even as it names the present. This minimalist work could be seen as a monument to the irreversibility of time and our dual capacity to perceive it or remain oblivious.
Emitting an intense white glow, the LED display continuously scrolls the phrase: “…This very moment has already become the past—This very mo…”.
Once situated within a temporal and spatial framework, the text no longer retains the material stability of something fixed, like a sentence painted on a wall. Its permanence dissolves. Instead, it operates through duration, directing the viewer’s attention toward the fleeting instant of the “now” even as that instant slips away. Stripped of its static properties, the text expresses time’s flow, as a chanted mantra mediated via light, text, and motion. It performs duration: it marks the passing of time even as it names the present. This minimalist work could be seen as a monument to the irreversibility of time and our dual capacity to perceive it or remain oblivious.
'This Very Moment' video documentation, 2014.
Studio Addresses
Ikejiri, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Neubau, Vienna, Austria
Studio
E. G. Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
Contact:
mail[at]kraft.studio
Studio Addresses
Ikejiri, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Neubau, Vienna, Austria
Contact
mail[at]kraft.studio
Studio
E. G. Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
