The Changing Constitution of the Present: Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity

by Jacob Lund

How our experience of presence, time, and history is articulated in contemporary artistic practices.

Our present is defined by contemporaneity: the interconnection of heterogeneous times, histories, and temporalities. These many and various times do not merely exist in parallel with one another, simultaneously. Rather, they interconnect and are brought to bear on the same present, forming a sort of planetary present, and--at least in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956796403
• ISBN13: 9783956796401
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.0"