Multiple Temporalities

Base to Understand Artistic Representations of Afro in the

Globalization

Afro Time andAfro, Time and Representations

Afro has been understood as a unified i th t b ti l t limage that obeys particular temporal designs

Bonnie Barthold

Black Time: Fiction of Africa, the Caribbean and the United States (1981)

African cyclic time

Internal of passage

Linear time

The above entails…

A conception of time as

External Vs Internal

Unified

Universal

Multiple temporalities…

Time as sets of processes based on di ti f ti t ticoordination of actions, events, perceptions,

natural phenomena and socio-cultural organizations.

These processes are multi-scale . It means, they obey to several principles as t ey obey to se e a p c p es asinstantaneity, simultaneity, networked connections, volatility, multiplicity and complexity.

In that sense…

Time is susceptible to be

Transmitted Learned

Imposed

Artistic Practices and Time

Multi-layered and multi-temporal processes

Artist’s T.

Observer’sObserver s T.Work’s T.

So…

If the artistic representations of Afro come together in a network…

Th b d t k t litiThey are based on network temporalities: OverlappingCriss-crossingCoexistence

Global Scales

Local scales

Some examples

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