Miya Yoshida
This week’s contribution to The Senses in Performance was an artistic and curatorial inquiry into the reconstitution and reimagining of the temporality of the event – specially, how contemporary artistic practices can reclaim temporalities that have been subjugated by the relentless acceleration and optimization of time within contemporary economic regimes.
“Time, as a concept, has been continuously redefined at the intersections of philosophy, science (including engineering, physics, technology), and industry. In the context of today’s intensified acceleration and extractive temporal logics, it is important to recall that the dominant mode of conceptualising, synchronising, and accelerating temporal experience are grounded in an enduring belief in logos. In contrast to a logos-based approach, my presentation draws on relationalism articulated in Buddhism and introduces the notion of Mimi o Sumasu – the Very Act of Listening. Through images, sound and poetry, I will explore this notion as attunement to ecological sensitivity, where time becomes both the subject and the method of inquiry for unsayble.”
