Parallel Presents - Amelia Barikin

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Résumé :
Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeeping--?parallel presents?-- Huyghe has researched the architecture of the incomplete, directed a puppet opera, founded a temporary school, established a pirate television station, staged celebrations, scripted scenarios, and journeyed to Antarctica in search of a mythological penguin. In this first book-length art historical examination of Huyghe and his work, Amelia Barikin traces the artist?s continual negotiation with the time codes of contemporary society. Barikin offers pioneering analyses of Huyghe?s lesser-known early works as well as sustained readings of later, critically acclaimed projects, including No Ghost Just a Shell (2000), L?Exp?dition scintillante (2002), and A Journey That Wasn?t (2005). She emphasizes Huyghe?s concepts of ?freed time? and ?the open present,? in which anything might happen.

Biographie:
Amelia Barikin, a curator, writer, and art historian, is Senior Research Associate in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne