On Time: MARK DION

MARK DION

Mark Dion staged an installation inside the 18th century house at Bartram's Garden, a wonderful historic treasure on the banks of the Schuylkill. The installation is right at home here.
Here he has put on display quirky artifacts--from seeds to carcases to tourist kitsch--that Dion collected while following in naturalist William Bartram's footsteps through the south at the time the Revolutionary War was brewing, in the 1770s. William is the son of John Bartram, America's first native botanist and the original owner of the estate on the Schuylkill. The project was conceived an commissioned by Philadelphia curator Julie Courtney. (read more)

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Drawing24 July 2012 at 23:15
Artist Mark Dion has staged an installation inside the 18th century house at Bartram's Garden, a wonderful historic treasure on the banks of the Schuylkill. The installation is right at home here.
Here he has put on display quirky artifacts--from seeds to carcases to tourist kitsch--that Dion collected while following in naturalist William Bartram's footsteps through the south at the time the Revolutionary War was brewing, in the 1770s. William is the son of John Bartram, America's first native botanist and the original owner of the estate on the Schuylkill. The project was conceived an commissioned by Philadelphia curator Julie Courtney. http://artledger.com/node/642
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A little timely reading

Barbican Art Gallery: Art & time Brussels, London: Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1986

Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, New York : Zone Books, 1988.

David Cockburn, Other Times, 1997, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge New York Melbourne

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, London : SCM Press, 1962.

George Kubler, The shape of time New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008

Genevieve Lloyd, Being in Time, London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Nikos Papastergiadis, Spatial Aesthetics, London ; Chicago : Rivers Oram, c2006.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, London : Chatto & Windus, 1957.

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, New York : Penguin Books, 2001.

Suzanne Treister, No other symptoms : time travelling with Rosalind Brodsky London : Black Dog, 1999

We are to view our temporal relation to an event as in some ways akin to our spatial relation to an object with which we are confronted. Of course the analogy is not complete. We cannot move at will through time in order to examine the event from different temporal perspectives, as we can walk around the house to inspect the different faces which it presents from different angles. Nor can we physically rise above the temporal plane in which we normally live, and so at a single time see all past and future events laid out before us. The imagery does however, capture the idea that we are, as far as we are able, to move in thought through time. We are to be struck directly by the fact that the event which, from where we now stand, lies in the distant future will one day be a present event; and to be struck directly by this fact is to grant to the event just the significance which we normally ascribe to a present event. Cockburn p 20