Time
As photographers, we co-create with Time in a multiplicity of ways. Over the next twelve months, you are invited to time-travel with us through one or more of the following three ‘doorways’: Deep Time, Inhabited Time, and Time-out-of-Time. Each doorway invites us to expand Time by challenging our reliance on linear ‘clock-time’ as our typical frame of reference. Join us as we journey, individually and collectively, into photographic explorations that experiment with making our relationship to Time more visible and intentional. Together we'll examine our dependence on, and freedom from, Time itself. :
How do you mark, honor, and forget time?
How can the artistic process of inquiry and reflection yield a negotiation with Time that forges a new partnership?
How does our relationship to time shape our approach to our own humanity, the land, and our connections with our more-than-human kin?
Subthemes:
Legacy
Memory
Language of time
Length/Breadth
Speed & Scale
Lunar/Solar time
Astrological Time
Seasonal Time
Honoring time
Transition/transformation
Control
Resonance
As we practice together through Time, we invite you to join us for weekly gatherings and practice groups where we explore and examine different aspects of our elemental lives within a supportive community.
Deep Time
Deep Time integrally shapes our everyday experience — the texture of the landscapes on which we walk, the illumination of our world by a 4.6-billion year old star, the availability of the minerals, energy sources, and nutrition that sustain us, and the evolution of our multi-species kin. Earth’s handwriting in the form of rocks, fossils, ice, landforms, and even DNA can be difficult to decipher, but powerful to contemplate. Through deep time, we explore Earth’s stories and our own ancestral rhythms, using photography to connect our current moments with the trillions of instances of “now” that came before us.
What stories is the Earth revealing to us?
How do we hold ‘deep time’ in our bodies, and how might our photographic practices invite attention to that lived experience?
How can attention to deep time give us a new perspective on our responsibility towards Earth and our earthly kin?
Subthemes:
Geologic time
Cosmic time
Origin stories
Starlight
Strata
Ancestral time
Evolutionary time
Earth’s Handwriting
River time
Glacial Time
Order & Chaos
Climate Change
Inhabited Time
Inhabited Time is living time. Time that dwells within us, and time that we dwell within. It is contained within the stories and histories we tell ourselves about how we use, define, and divide our time, here and now, as well as there and then. This inhabitable scale of time is rooted, defined, and measurable. Yet it also fluctuates, subject to individual or communal experience and affected by any number of variables, from psychological and physiological to cultural and economic. Other-than-human beings likewise have an integrated relationship to time embedded in their physicality and in their relationship to place, life cycles, and seasons. We inhabit time until we don’t: our mortality itself is intrinsically connected to embodied time.
How can photography help us explore these polyrhythmic experiences that shape who we are, individually and collectively?
How might your practice be an extension of your body's way of interpreting time?
Can photography bring us closer to the ways that other-than-human-beings inhabit time, and how might we learn from their perspectives?
Subthemes:
Embodied Time
Crip time
Neurological time
Healing time
Rhythmic Time
Movement
Reciprocity
Nostalgia
Habits
Cultural / Political time
Calendar Time
Presence
Time Out of Time
Time is elusive—a shapeshifter that turns hours into eons and generations into nanoseconds. As photographers, we play with time. We step into the boundless now. Invite memories, dreams, energy, and spirits to cross and recross embodied timelines. We explore light-altered states of consciousness and find portals into other dimensions. Here, linearity bends into spirals and fractals, cycles and circles. Our human experiences on earth become reflections of the celestial bodies above. Inherited, indigenous, intergalactic: time-out-of-time is the essence of the possible.
Can our photographic practice be a kind of dreaming into the future? Is photography a way of becoming?
What influence do dreams, visions and imagined realities have on the way we photograph? How might we choose to make these deliberately visible?
What does it mean to say the land and/or our bodies hold memory? Does photography make time travel possible?
Subthemes:
Dream time
Spiritual time
Renegade Time
Free Time
Fluid Time
Polyrhythmic Time
Storytime
Poetic Time
Ephemeral Time
Monastic Time
Time Travel
Suspended Time
Time Travel with Us
While the Kinship call for engagement is the hub of our community, your generous sharing is the heart. At Kinship, we celebrate the embodied collective wisdom of the community and the surprises that arise in the shared space between us. Through community gatherings, practice groups, collaborative prompts, courageous sharing, and curated exhibitions, we find new ways of making meaning together.
We hope you will join us on this quest of questioning, exploring, and discovering as we move together through the Time.
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